"What I think is that stunning is friendly for the human being and our way of slaughtering is friendly for the animals, " says Motti Rosenzweig, Holland's only Jewish slaughterer (shochet).
Yet as Mr Shawcross argues, the responsible reaction to such doubts, about a serial slaughterer, invader and user of chemical weapons, should rather have been to refuse to give Saddam the benefit of them.