Reviewing Documents to Charge Saddam with Genocide

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10:37 AM, Apr 4, 2006 • By DANIEL MCKIVERGAN

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The BBC reports that Iraqi prosecutors will formerly charge Saddam Hussein with "genocide over a 1980s campaign against the Kurds." Saddam's forces killed about 180,000 in the "Anfal" campaign, which made worldwide headlines after the poison gas attack on Halabja. The BBC also reports that investigators have reviewed "thousands of documents" that will help demonstrate that Saddam was complicit in the murderous campaign and authorized the poison gas attacks. But why would prosecutors waste their time reviewing "thousands of documents"? Haven't they read the latest New York Times editorial on the issue of reviewing documents? The editors are bored by it all -- see here and here. What a strange position for a truth-seeking newspaper to adopt.

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