FP e-Alert: How to Prosecute Saddam Hussein?

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Title: FP e-Alert: How to Prosecute Saddam Hussein?

Monday, July 18, 2005 What is the FP e-Alert? Unsubscribe Inside this e–Alert: Throwing the Book at Saddam Saddam Hussein may be tried for his crimes as soon as September. In a special Web Exclusive, FP looks at the work Iraqis must do between now and then: How can the Iraqis avoid a show trial? Will the trial heal or reopen the wounds of the Saddam era? And how can Iraqi judges fight the public perception that they are no more than puppets of the United States? To find answers to these questions, FP turned to M. Cherif Bassiouni, a leading legal scholar who has advised the Iraqi tribunal and helped train its judges. PROSECUTING SADDAM HUSSEIN By M. Cherif Bassiouni The new Iraqi government must move fast if the trial is going to be seen as more than victor’s justice. The special tribunal is riddled with legal holes and is tainted by American influence. Here’s what the Iraqis can do to make sure justice gets a fair shake. Web Exclusives Available FREE Online It’s already shaping up to be a long, hot, summer for world affairs. Iran elected a controversial new president, France and Holland rejected the European Union constitution, and a highly anticipated G-8 summit took a backseat to terror. FP has been along for the ride, with Web Exclusive content covering these and a host of other issues. Here’s a taste of what’s new at ForeignPolicy.com: A GUANTÁNAMO EXIT STRATEGY By Phillip Carter The very word Guantánamo carries a negative connotation throughout much of the world, one that is antithetical to American values and America’s strategy of spreading freedom and democracy. It’s time to put U.S. detention facilities on the moral high ground—and out of Guantánamo. FOREIGN POLICY garners three more awards at the 17th Annual APEX competition! The Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) bestowed FP with three awards for General Excellence, including one for ForeignPolicy.com. Subscribe today and experience all the award-winning content we offer in both print and online! EUROPE’S TRASH TALK By Alan Sked Bureaucrats in Brussels won’t let voters get in the way of their grand plans. Instead, to keep an unsuccessful operation in business, they’ll peddle yet another myth—the need to balance the American behemoth. SOLUTIONS FOR GRANDEUR By Marc Perelman Nicolas Sarkozy has become France’s most popular politician by diving headfirst into the country’s most explosive political issues. If he has his way, this hyperactive, pro-American, Gaullist free marketer will transform French politics for good. AFRICA NEEDS AN AL-JAZEERA By Philip Fiske de Gouveia If rich countries want to promote good governance in Africa, they should pave the way for a news network that will give corrupt politicians headaches all over the continent. Want access to all of FP’s articles? Subscribe now and get instant access to all of FP’s archived content online, including the following article. DEBATING JOHN BOLTON By Morton Halperin & Ruth Wedgwood As John Bolton’s nomination for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations languishes in the U.S. Senate, two prominent foreign-policy minds—Morton Halperin and Ruth Wedgwood—disagree sharply on whether Bush’s pick has the right stuff for the job. Subscribe to the FP e-Alert! Enter your e-mail address here:     Unsubscribe ForeignPolicy.com Subscribe to FP | Feedback |  FP Archives | About FP © Copyright 2005 FOREIGN POLICY | 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW | Washington, D.C. 20036     FP’s Best of the Web: The Saddam Hussein Trial Backgrounder: Saddam Hussein’s Trial Human Rights Watch Where Should Saddam Hussein Be Tried? Legal Affairs Ziad for the Defense Atlantic Monthly Q&A: Putting Saddam on Trial BBC News Sign up for eNews from Sent every other week, it keeps you informed of the latest conferences, books, policy briefs, working papers, and news from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.