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Potomac Institute Expert Available for Comments on Legal Options for Hussein 17 December, 2003 News Release Contact Information: Potomac Institute Expert Available for Comments on Legal Options for Hussein (Arlington, VA) – Unlike the ad hoc tribunals established by the international community to deal with the aftermath of the Balkan war and Rwandan genocide, the trial of Saddam Hussein will be a much closer analog to the Nuremberg trials at the end of World War II. The U.S. and Iraq have several legal options for dealing with the former dictator, but it appears that an Iraqi-supervised trial, conducted very soon after the transition to sovereign status on 1 July of next year, is the most likely. Potomac Research Fellow, Thomas Wingfield is able to discuss the huge number of challenges presented by this situation. Thomas C. Wingfield is the Director for Tyranny, Democracy, and Regime Change at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, Virginia. A former naval intelligence officer, Mr. Wingfield has a law degree (J.D.) and an LL.M in international law from Georgetown University Law Center, and is completing his second doctorate, a Doctor of Juridical Studies degree (S.J.D.) at the Law School of the University of Virginia. Mr. Wingfield has served as the Chair of the ABA’s Committee on International Criminal Law. He is a Lecturer in Law at the Columbus School of Law (Catholic University of America), and has lectured at Georgetown, George Washington University, George Mason University, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. Mr. Wingfield has published a legal textbook and numerous articles on international law and the use of force. His article Taking Aim at Regime Elites: Assassination, Tyrannicide, and the Clancy Doctrine, specifically concerns the legal options available in dealing with Saddam Hussein. Mr. Wingfield can be reached at his office at 703/525-0770. The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is an independent, 501(c)(3), not-for-profit public policy research institute, and is dedicated to the development and implementation of policies that advocate and manage the increasing role of science and technology in our evolving world. http://www.PotomacInstitute.org ###
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