Charles Taylor became the first former head of state to be convicted of war crimes by an international court since the Nurembergtrials after World War II.
They're separated by decades and thousands of miles, but the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been shaped in some ways by the most famous of war tribunals, the NurembergTrials of Nazi leaders after World War II.
The tribunal was the first international body for the prosecution of war crimes since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials held in the aftermath of World War II.
Dodd reminded colleagues that his father, Thomas, who was also a senator, once served as a prosecutor at the Nazi war criminal trials in Nuremberg, Germany.