The General Director of the Public Security Organization of Lebanon has announced the arrest of "Abdullah Yasser Sabaawi", the grandson of Saddam's brother and accused in the "Spiker" crime case, in Lebanon.

Once upon a time, there was a brutal and reckless dictator of an oil-rich Arab country who, despite his well-documented excesses, was stroked and supported by the United States and other Western governments. His crimes were terrible, went the rationale, but he was modernizing his country and he was holding the line against … jihadism and Iran. Anyway,...