[HiJinx]

just enough information to scare France, Germany and Russia into getting involved to protect him from the death penalty

Now that is very good analysis based on past performance, and you may very well have it right.

To those who say he is trying to give out disinformation, I would direct your attention to at least two FR posts that tell of stunning raids, arrests, and killings of Saddam-ites in the last 48 hours. We have the intel and the confirmation; and we are acting on it. It's what MG Odierno (CG, 4th ID) called 'actionable intelligence'.

[Eva]

There is some Harvard law guy on FOX right now, trying to describe the turning over of the Saddam trial to the UN as the necessary step in bringing old Europe into Iraq. He is calling for all concessions from the US and nothing from Old Europe.