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Article: How the attorney general of the United States became Saddam Hussein's lawyer: the dictator's time is up. Ramsey Clark, meanwhile, soldiers on.
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- February 1, 2007
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The plane comes in high and circles down, the way all planes do at the Baghdad airport these days. Two giant armor-plated GMC SUVs meet him, manned by American soldiers with M4 rifles and helmets with earphones. They drive fast past the checkpoints, the city invisible behind the high barriers that line the road. It is mid-October. Ramsey Clark has been here many times before. During the Gulf war in 1991, while American bombs were falling, he made a mad two-thousand-mile dash across this country in a rented car, visiting hospitals and bomb craters. He saw a twelve-year-old girl get her leg amputated without anesthetic, four grown men holding her down. Earlier he roamed the ...
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