Yesterday's Supreme Court Decisions; What To Do With Saddam Hussein?; Iraqis On The Future Of Iraq
Yesterday's Supreme Court Decisions
AirTalk guest host Patt Morrison talks with Angie Cannon, senior writer for U.S. News and World Report about the significance of yesterday's Supreme Court rulings, which addressed the balance of law enforcement and suspects' rights. Three decisions dealt with the legal rights of enemy combatants, while two more clarified the timing of Miranda warnings during interrogations.
What To Do With Saddam Hussein?
Now that the handover of sovereignty in Iraq has happened, Saddam Hussein will face justice. Organized under the Coalition Provisional Authority, the Iraqi Special Tribunal for Crimes Against Humanity, led by Salem Chalabi, will try Hussein. The tribunal is expected to charge the former dictator, and his lieutenants, with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. But what is Saddam Hussein's status? Until the handover, he was a POW, but what is he now? And will he get due process? Joining Guest Host Patt Morrison is William Langewiesche, correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, based in Baghdad. Mr. Langewiesche is covering the trial of Saddam Hussein. Joining Patt also is Richard Dicker, Director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch in New York.
Iraqis On The Future Of Iraq
The Interim Government in Iraq now holds sovereignty of the country, after a surprise early handover on Monday morning. Guest Host Patt Morrison speaks with Iraqis in Southern California, and Iraqis in Iraq, about how the past year has been for them, and what their hopes are for the new Iraq. Guests include Basam Al-Husseini, spokesman for Iraqi-American Council, engineer and recruited by the Deptartment of Defense to help re-build Iraq, Imam Sayed Moustapha Al Qazwini, the Imam of the Islamic Center of Orange County, Hana al-Wardi, Iraqi-American artist living in Southern California, and Bijar Mahmoud, editorial assistant and fixer in Iraq, Amer Sultan, advisor in the Iraqi Ministry of Culture and an Iraqi writer, Hussein al-Qazwini, and graduate of UC Berkeley, who moved back to Iraq and now teaches English at Karbala University.