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Ghariba Kalou,Iraqi mother of Djamhour Hazam who was killed in 1985, during Iraq’s former President Saddam Hussein rule, cries while showing her son’s identification card near her home in Baghdad’s Sadr City district, October 19, 2005. A defiant Saddam went on trial on Wednesday for crimes against humanity over the killing of more than 140 Shi’ites more than two decades ago. Nearly two years after he was found hiding in a hole in the ground near where he was born, Saddam and seven other members of his now-defunct Baath Party are being tried for events stemming from a failed attempt on the former leader’s life in 1982.
REUTERS/ Faleh Kheiber
Vigilante Man
by Woody Guthrie
Rainy night down in the engine house
Sleepin’ just as still as a mouse
A man came along and chase us out in the rain
Well was that a vigilante man?
Stormy days, we pass the time away
Sleeping in some good warm place
A cop come along we give him a little race
Say was that a vigilante man?
Well tell me why does a vigilante man
Tell me why does a vigilante man
Carry that sawed off shotgun in his hands
To shoot his brothers and sisters down that no good vigilante man
Well I ramble around from town to town
Yeah I ramble around from town to town
Yeah and they run us around like a wild herd of cattle lord
is that your vigilante man?
Well tell me why does a vigilante man
Tell me why does a vigilante man
Carry that club in his hands
Would he beat an innocent man down that no good vigilante man
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