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Article: Iraqi Governing Council Says It Wants to Try Hussein
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- The Washington Post
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- December 15, 2003
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Iraq's U.S.-appointed Governing Council intends to put Saddam
Hussein on trial in a special Iraqi court for three decades of
violent misrule and abuse of power, officials in Baghdad and
Washington said yesterday.
The Bush administration expects to advise Iraqi investigators and
judges, but will leave the principal decisions to Iraqis barring an
unforeseen change, State Department officials said. The
administration has spent more than $10 million gathering evidence
against Hussein and his top lieutenants.
Hussein "will face the justice he denied to millions," President
Bush told an international television audience.