Hussein Era Secrets May Lie Buried

Investigators continue to seek answers regarding Saddam Hussein’s activities over the years, including hidden graves of his victims, missing government funds that amount to billions of dollars, hidden foreign bank accounts and clandestine support from Western corporations and governments on weapons programs. In controlling Iraq, the former dictator kept many secrets; for example, his own generals had no idea that he had discontinued a nuclear-weapons program long before the US invasion. The fast and unseemly execution not only divides the US and allies who disagree about the morality of the death penalty. A Kurdish legislator suggests that delaying the execution in exchange for some information might have produced new revelations about atrocities in Iraq, thus undermining support for insurgents who continue to instigate chaos in Baghdad. – YaleGlobal