The first trials are not expected to start before ... That is expected to take a long time. Iraq's president, Ghazi al-Yawer, has raised the stakes for Saddam with the announcement that the ...

January 30, 2005 – One of approximately 7,700 candidates in Iraq’s first free elections in more than 50 years. April 6, 2005 – Is elected president of Iraq by the new transitional national ...