Exhumations expected to provide evidence for Saddam trials

Saddam Hussein may already have been convicted in the court of international public opinion for crimes against the Iraqi people, but more will be needed to get a guilty verdict from an Iraqi court – and DNA evidence may be the key.

Analysts say prosecutors should have ample evidence when Saddam goes to trial, pointing to dramatic advances in DNA technology as a prosecutorial tool in recent years. They say DNA will help to clearly establish the identity of many of Saddam’s victims who ended up in the country’s mass graves.