Will Dujail Be Remembered Alongside Lidice?Here's
a chilling story about what happened in a town where an assassination attempt aimed at Saddam Hussein failed.
What happened next will form the bulk of the prosecution case against Saddam. The people of Dujail call the events of the following months and years 'al karitha' - the disaster. Arrests and killings began immediately, followed by bombardments from helicopter gunships. Soldiers cut down the date palms on which the people depended, and bulldozed their houses.
Channel 4 News interviewed four of the more than 400 witnesses in Dujail who have been questioned by the lawyers prosecuting Saddam. Now aged 75, Um Abbas remembers her four sons, all killed after the assassination attempt - one shot trying to resist the security forces and three executed in prison.Something to remember the next time the libs claim it was only about the WMD.