LAFTA

"I wish I could tell my father, who was executed because of his principles and his rejection of the Baathists' rule, that those who are ruling the country today are more brutal," said Lafta, a 51-year-old civil servant.

In his youth, Mohannad Lafta would put up posters of Saddam Hussein, not because he supported him but to avoid the repercussions of being branded a dissenter like his father who opposed the dictator's Baathist regime and was executed for it.

On Tuesday, Anmar Lafta, who is related to some of the stabbing victims, said he wants Kinner sentenced to death, according to the Idaho Statesman.

"������ he did to children, to the family, he broke family hearts and he killed children. Those people should go to death without even thinking about it," Lafta said.

But Dr. Lafta and other public health experts said they doubted that enough Iraqis would agree to be vaccinated for the campaign to succeed.