Saddam Hussein has always threatened that he would tell the world of his real connections with the Reagan and Bush administrations if he got the chance. But, thanks to an "amazing coincidence", he won't get his day in a world court. That's because 3 days before his alleged capture, the Bush Interim gov. in Iraq set up a special war crimes tribunal that will be closed to the world except for "outside experts" (hand-picked by the Bush junta, of course) and presided over by US government officials and their Iraq counterparts. How very, very convenient: December 10, AFP: "Back in Iraq...the Governing Council approved late last night the creation of an Iraqi penal tribunal to try former members of Saddam Hussein's regime for their crimes against humanity..Council members have said US overseer Paul Bremer has to sign the tribunal statutes, but a coalition spokesman has insisted it was the Governing Council that was taking the decisions about the court and not the US-led occupation authority." Yeah, right.

uk.news.yahoo.com/031210/323/egqsq.html

also www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/10/sprj.nilaw.warcrimes.ap/

My guess is that Hussein was captured days ago...if it is indeed him. The hastily put together tribunal set up seems aimed at one of two possible things:

Keeping anything damning Hussein might say out of the world's "hearing"

or

Keeping a captured "double" away from too much scrutiny