“There's an international audience for (the trial), but also a domestic one and an audience within the greater Arab world. (If) the Arab world sees Iraqi trying Iraqi, in an Iraqi courtroom under Iraqi law, it sends a message more powerful than any international court (could send) that a new day truly is here.”
“Americans are not fighting nor being targeted by an abstract called terrorism, but a growing body of ideological concepts. They need to know what is it they are up against.”
