Saddam Hussein's first trial for crimes against humanity got under way in Iraq today, though it quickly adjourned until next month:
[Presiding judge Rizgar Mohammed] Amin, a Kurd, tried to get Saddam to formally identify himself but Saddam refused and finally sat. . . .
The other defendants include Saddam's former intelligence chief Barazan Ibrahim, former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan and other lower-level Baathist civil servants. . . .
Ramadan also refused to identify himself to the judge.
"I repeat what President Saddam Hussein has said," he added.
At which point, I imagine, Saddam shouted, "You idiot! Now they know my name!"
