Drudge relays a report in the Washington Post:

Iraqi newspapers marked the anniversary of Sept. 11 with banner headlines describing the terrorist attack as "God's Punishment" against America, and ordinary Iraqis also voiced anger at a country they fear might be preparing an invasion of their country.

I don't know whether this was a punishment from God, and neither do they. But some of them will have the opportunity to ask God about it in person. Soon, I hope.

Damian Penny reminded me of the 1991 incident in which Saddam took civilians as hostages:

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, troops seized about 1,200 expatriate Britons. On Saddam's orders they were placed at key installations as "human shields". Their presence, Saddam reasoned, would deter allied air strikes.

The tactic prompted worldwide revulsion, especially when Saddam was filmed trying to create favourable propaganda by urging a five-year-old boy, Stuart Lockwood, from Worcester, to sit on his knee. The terrified boy refused.

For that alone, the man deserves to die.