There’s an international audience for (the trial), but also a domestic one and an audience within the greater Arab world. (If) the Arab world sees Iraqi trying Iraqi, in an Iraqi courtroom under Iraqi law,...

They’re like two animals facing one another. Who is going to make the first move and what’s it going to be?

name the ideology behind the terrorists.

It works very well, (but) it will seem strange to American eyes. No lawyers doing battle with each other, no O.J.-type trial dramatics.

Americans are not fighting nor being targeted by an abstract called terrorism, but a growing body of ideological concepts. They need to know what is it they are up against.