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MOSCOW. (Professor Mikhail Barshchevsky...
not so much at passing a sentence as to settling accounts. Under the circumstances, any sentence could be called into question, not only a death verdict. The difference is that once a death sentence is executed, it cannot be revised. As for other court decisions, proceedings can be resumed if they seem unfair after a truly democratic regime is established in Iraq, and after American troops leave the country.It should be borne in mind that in the current uneasy situation in the Middle East, the extremists might exploit this dubious sentence in their own interests. Although many representatives of the Islamic and Arab world regard Saddam as a criminal, the execution of the death sentence may turn him into a martyr for Islam. The extremists may use his execution under foreign occupation as a banner for struggle against the Western Christian civilization. This should not be allowed because Saddam himself is much more likely to prefer to be hanged and become a martyr for Islam
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