Saddam on trial Wednesday

Saddam Hussein is questioned at an undisclosed location in this handout file photo released by the Iraqi Special Tribunal on August 23, 2005. Hussein and seven members of his Baath party, including his half-brother, will file into a marble-lined, chandelier-hung courtroom in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 to face the stares of five judges and the world.

Saddam Hussein appears before a tribunal in Baghdad in this July 1, 2004 file photo. Hussein and seven members of his Baath party, including his half-brother, will file into a marble-lined, chandelier-hung courtroom in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 to face the stares of five judges and the world.

Saddam Hussein fires shots into the air in Baghdad in this December 31, 2000 file photo. Hussein and seven members of his Baath party, including his half-brother, will file into a marble-lined, chandelier-hung courtroom in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 to face the stares of five judges and the world.

A file photo of Saddam Hussein taken after his capture, and shown to journalists during a news conference in Baghdad December 14, 2003. Hussein and seven members of his Baath party, including his half-brother, will file into a marble-lined, chandelier-hung courtroom in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 to face the stares of five judges and the world.