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07/01/2004: "The injustice of it!"

If you have a taste for such things, there's going to be a lot of grotesque irony coming out of the trial of Saddam Hussein. According to AP, one of Saddam's lawyers was in a positive lather over his client's treatment:

In Amman, Jordan, lawyers claiming to represent Saddam expressed outrage they were not at his side for the hearing.

"This is tyranny and absolute cruelty," said Ziad al-Khasawneh, who said he was hired by Saddam's wife, Sajidah. "How can this be called a fair trial if President Saddam Hussein, may God bless him, was denied his basic right to a lawyer?"

A million Kurdish, Kuwaiti, Shiite, and Iranian ghosts got a good laugh out of that. Evidently the former Iraqi information minister, "Baghdad Bob," has joined the bar.