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Saddam Trial Poses Legal Challenges

An Iraqi woman carries a picture of her son who was executed after the 1991 Shiite uprising as she takes part in a protest demanding the execution of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein in Najaf.
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An Iraqi woman carries a picture of her son who was executed after the 1991 Shiite uprising as she takes part in a protest demanding the execution of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein in Najaf.

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Peter Kenyon is NPR's international correspondent based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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