(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Firas Adnan, his tongue cut off more than a year ago, talks to a reporter in his home in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday, June 30, 2004. Just before the regime fell, the 24-year-old laborer quarreled with a Saddam loyalist, who punished him by chopping off his tongue.

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Saddam's victims are eager to see his trial

• By ncs-import
• June 29, 2004