Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein | 
| Authors: Michael A. Newton, Michael P. Scharf
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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ISBN: 0312385560
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Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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At 12:21 p.m., on October 19, 2005, Saddam Hussein was escorted into the Courtroom of the Iraqi High Tribunal in Baghdad for one of the most important and chaotic trials in history. For a year, two American law professors had led an elite team of experts who prepared the judges and prosecutors for “the mother of all trials.” Michael Scharf, a former State Department official who helped create the Yugoslavia Tribunal in 1993, and Michael Newton, then a professor at West Point, would confront such issues as whether the death penalty should apply, how to run a fair trial when political and military passions run so high, and which of Saddam’s many crimes should be prosecuted.
Newton was in Baghdad in December 2003 when the Tribunal was announced and Saddam was captured. In the following months, Scharf and Newton helped write the rules of the Tribunal, conducted a mock trial in (perhaps appropriately) Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and provided legal analysis on dozens of issues. Newton then returned to Baghdad several times during the trial and appeal. Now, from its two shapers, comes the fascinating inside story of the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein and the attempt to bring the rule of law to post-invasion Iraq.
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An EXCEPTIONAL work and insight into the trial of Saddam Hussein!! November 23, 2008
M. (Tennessee, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a GREAT book! It is meticulously written by Professors Newton and Scharf, each equally qualified both by education and experience as subject matter experts in international law. What sets them apart is that they have served as Advisors for some of the more notorious dictators to be brought to trial, most recently the Iraqi High Tribunal, in the eventual trial of Saddam Hussein. They were tasked with an unenvious task that many legal scholars would pass up due to the innate challenges that such a monumentous undertaking would present, but the work speaks for itself.
This book takes the reader through some of the history of Iraq during Saddam's reign. Where part of its strength lies is not specifically in the details of his atrocities, but in describing the effort of gathering evidence that eventually found him guilty. It shows great depth and insight into the resolve of the Iraqi people and the transition from a population living in mortal fear of this dictator, to those that found their own identity through the trial's proceedings. It starts off with the capture of Saddam; after months of intensive searching and failed missions to the pre-trial proceedings, the trial itself, and concludes with his execution and afterthoughts.
Much of the strength of this book lies in the minutiae of the preparation for the trial, and the trial itself. The information presented, the history chronicled, the exasperation of the Iraqi people, the anguish over whether to utilize the death penalty as a sentence against someone who used it with casual abandon on his own citizens.. all of this and so much more. It reveals volumes to the reader about the Iraqi people, and some of the key personnel that helped bring about change (specifically, Judge Ra'id).
For over twenty five years, Saddam Hussein has been a public fixture in the minds of many. To western civilizations, he was the enemy that had to be removed from power in order to effect a sense of justice and stability in Iraq. To many in the Middle East, he was a dreaded and feared enemy, whose unpredictability and ruthlessness was unparallelled. However you look at it, it is a well-told story of justice. Saddam Hussein has been woven into the fabric of our minds, and short of actually being in the court room while the trial occurred, this is the next best thing, and then some... it gives incredible insight into all that went into the trial. It affirms the Iraqi justice system's validity in conducting a fair trial, which would stand up to the scrutiny of any international agency's oversight.
If you are looking for authenticity and a powerful story told in a modern historical context, I would not hesitate to read this book. Contemporary historians will be drawn in not only by the fluidity of the narrative, but at how much is revealed throughout Saddam's trial.
Case for the trial of Saddam December 6, 2008
A. L. Martin (Bucks County, PA)
This is a wonderfully assembled, very readable, fully informed account of the capture, trial and execution of Saddam Hussein. It brings into view the many legal organizations and dedicated individuals, from the international legal community, who pitched in to assist Iraqi jurists, and bring Iraqi law into harmony with developments in international law in the thirty years since Saddam imposed his tyranny on the people of Iraq. Features of the process with which the Western reader is unfamiliar (such as the great store many leading Iraqis set on the reimposition of a legal framework for acts of state, the courage with which many Iraqi judges had continued to function during the Saddam regime, the achievements and mistakes of the trial, and the difficulties that beset war crimes trials in general. The authors participated in the advisory process and tell their story with authority and dramatic empathy.
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