posted January 14, 2006 05:47 PM              

Just picked out this section as it reminded me of that old Aesop's fable about the sun and the wind having a contest to see who could make a man remove his coat first... the wind blasted the man from every direction, buffeting and battering which just made him pull his coat even more tightly around him. The Sun gently shone on the man, getting warmer and warmer until the man grew so warm and comfortable, he took his coat off to cool down. Clever tactics

"Judge Rizgar has been remarkably lenient to Saddam Hussein and his half-brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, and they have taken advantage of this, our correspondent says.

However, he says that this does not mean that the senior judge has lost control of his court.

Judge Rizgar is a polite, highly intelligent man, who wants the world to see that he dispenses a very different kind of justice from Saddam's own courts, our correspondent says.