Missing evidence could foil Saddam prosecution, claims report. More.

If we would be talking of a true trial, where Saddam Hussein and other leaders of the former Iraqi regime would have the chance to walk from the court room as free men, it would be so. But that most likely is not the case. He and the other leaders will be found guilty, even if the evidence would be far from certain. That´s probably one of the reasons why the occupiers have been less than eager to carry out large scale forensic studies of the mass graves - they don´t have to, as long as they and their collaborators control the courts. This is a sad thing, because producing hard evidence against the former Iraqi leadership wouldn´t have been the most difficult of things to do and would have made it less likely that they would be seen as martyrs. If things go as bad in Iraq next year as many analysis predict, then the Sunnis may flock to follow the memory of the martyred leaders of the Baath party. If the trials against them are to be seen as show trials, then that makes it likelier.