Once Mr. Hussein settled in, he became more his old self, speaking with a strengthening voice to declare Kuwait rightly a part of Iraq, to rebuke the judge, as an Iraqi, for daring to countenance charges that Kuwait was not Iraqi territory, and to describe Kuwait's rulers as "animals" who had tried to turn Iraqi women into "10-dinar prostitutes." He told the judge, "You know that this is all a theater by Bush, to help him win his election." He then refused to sign court papers and walked out brusquely, saying, "Khalas!"— an Arabic term meaning "finished."
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Thursday's hearings were held under conditions of iron-tight security, in line with Mr. Bush's decision to insist on maintaining the so-called "high-value detainees," or H.V.D.'s, in military parlance, under American guard, even after transferring them to Iraqi legal custody on Wednesday. Camp Victory is the American military headquarters for Iraq, a complex of lakeside palaces formerly used by Mr. Hussein and his family. It is 10 miles southwest of central Baghdad, and was the scene, shortly before the hearings began, of an elaborate change-of-command ceremony at which Gen. George W. Casey, the former vice chief of the army, took control of the force of 165,000 allied troops, 140,000 of them Americans, from the departing Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez.

When the hearing began, the former Iraqi ruler seemed distracted by a two-tiered bench to his right, where officials of the new Iraqi government were seated with three American reporters and three American officials: two lawyers advising the Iraqi judge, and a United States Navy admiral acting as a spokesman who attended in tan chinos and a yellow, short-sleeved sportshirt.