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Monday, November 6, 2006 at 10:00 AM EST
Saddam Hussein’s Trial Verdict
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The captured Iraqi dictator was sentenced to death yesterday at his Baghdad trial for war crimes against the Shiites.

President Bush called the verdict “a milestone in the Iraqi people’s efforts to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law.”

Was justice served? Was it worth it?

For perspective, we ask Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Guests:

Borzou Daragahi, Baghdad bureau chief for The Los Angles Times;
Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

 
 

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