They said a jovial and highly spirited Saddam chatted with them for more than three hours about the violence in Iraq and mounting U.S. losses just hours before an expected death sentence on Sunday in his trial for crimes against humanity.
one of the commentators was lamenting the possibility that people might celebrate afterwards. "It's quite common after such (post liberation) events for people to go out and shoot their guns, and this could be quite dangerous for the people and lead to more deaths" ... so I think that will be the lead.