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From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. And I'm Brooke Gladstone. The Saddam trial was back in session in Baghdad this week. This time it lasted a full three days in a row

before being adjourned once again by the judge. Good evening. We begin tonight in Baghdad, Iraq, where Saddam Hussein was added again.

First, live witness against Saddam Hussein testified in an Iraqi court today after a considerable

amount of fire. He said he's not afraid of execution. He also threatened the judge and tried to

intimidate a survivor of the 1982 massacre, which he's accused of order. Here, the coverage has played up the drama of the proceedings, giving us glimpses of

courtroom fireworks.

But for such an anticipated trial, we've seen strikingly little of what's happened in

between.

Only court TV's online stream has provided the proceedings in their entirety.

In Iraq, however, the trial is most

definitely the TV event of the season. Los Angeles Times reporter Borzu Daragahi is in Baghdad.

He says that even as the country's parliamentary election campaign enters its final days this week,

Iraqis were glued to their sets for the latest developments in the

trial of the century.

They're watching in their homes, in their living rooms, in shops, they gather around each other.

It's a very big event, and they are watching in droves. They are mesmerized.

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