Wednesday
Jun302004
Iraqis Take Legal Custody Of Hussein and 11 Others
Wednesday, June 30, 2004 at 03:53AM
Transfer means that deposed ruler and his aides are no longer prisoners of war but criminal defendants.
Iraq's interim government assumed legal custody of former president Saddam Hussein and 11 of his top aides on Wednesday, beginning a protracted legal process to hold them accountable for rampant human rights abuses during the nearly 24 years Hussein was in power. [more]
Iraq's interim government assumed legal custody of former president Saddam Hussein and 11 of his top aides on Wednesday, beginning a protracted legal process to hold them accountable for rampant human rights abuses during the nearly 24 years Hussein was in power. [more]