Ominous start to the year


  • Letters
  • Monday, 08 Jan 2007

It has been a dismal start to 2007 with the hanging of Saddam Hussein, an air crash in Indonesia, bombings in Bangkok and the disruption of Internet services in Asia. 

THE execution of Saddam Hussein is proving to be the most costly mistake of the US and Iraqi governments – that his trial was so blatantly biased, that the execution was done on such a religiously auspicious day, and in the manner of a mob lynching. 

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