The news media are reporting that American forces captured Saddam Hussein last night (8:30 PM Baghdad time).

Now the public arguments will begin about how and where he is to be tried and punished for his crimes (I don't feel like writing "alleged crimes"). The US has announced that he will be held in Iraq and tried in Iraq, but the composition of the court has probably not been decided.

Paul Martin, the new Prime Minister of Canada, has called for the court to have "an international character." Then let me be the first to suggest that the court should be composed of Iraqis, Kuwaitis, and Kurds....