Meanwhile, it appears that some Europeans still think Saddam should've been tried by an international court:
A United Nations judge has criticized the trial of former dictator Saddam Hussein by an Iraqi special court, saying Monday it would have been better to task an international court with the case.
Wolfgang Schomburg, a German who sits on U.N. tribunals trying war crimes in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, said the Iraqi court, advised as it was by U.S. lawyers, had some features of "victors' justice."
In an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Schomburg said the world could have set up a special court for Saddam.
"Since the United States does not cooperate with the permanent court of international criminal justice in The Hague, a tribunal supported by the international community as a whole would have had to be set up, as happened with Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone."
Reuters, meanwhile, brings us a report on the Yugoslavia tribunal:
The trial of Slobodan Milosevic may take another 4 to 5 years if the former Yugoslav president accused of genocide gets his way, the prosecutor of the U.N. war crimes tribunal said on Tuesday.
Milosevic wants to call almost 200 witnesses for his defence case, prosecutor Geoffrey Nice said. They include former U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. . . .
The trial, that began in February 2002, has been repeatedly delayed due to his heart condition and high blood pressure.
Prosecutors have tried to speed up proceedings by asking the court to consider working four or five days a week instead of three. The request was rejected due to Milosevic's health. . . .
The court is supposed to complete all cases, including appeals, by the end of 2010.
If the Iraqis had gone with a Hague-style tribunal, Saddam Hussein would probably die of old age before he could be executed for his crimes.
