U.S. Wants Iraqi Tribunal to Try Saddam Officials

[True_Blue]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S.-led administration wants to speed up creation of an Iraqi tribunal to try detained Saddam Hussein loyalists for crimes against humanity and human rights abuses, a senior official said on Sunday.

U.S. civil administrator for Iraq Paul Bremer has asked his staff to accelerate the process of forming a tribunal, Jeremy Greenstock, Britain's special representative in Iraq, told Reuters.

"We can't hold these people in detention for an unreasonable length of time," Greenstock said of the several thousand Iraqis in U.S. custody, including 40 of the 55 most wanted officials of Saddam's former Baathist regime.

The top officials have been held largely incommunicado, apart from visits by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in what human rights activists call a legal limbo.

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[patdem]

1. There can be revenge for generations...look at South Africa for the answer

the Truth and Reconciliation did more to heal the country than any tribunal could ever do....hey...LOOK...we have proof that other solutions other than REVENGE works better than REVENGE...why must fools continue to be foolish???

[FloridaPat]

2. But didn't Reagan and Bush help with all these "crimes against

humanity"? Maybe they could get some good lawyers and indict them. Then, we illegally invaded Iraq and killed between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians. Plus the 500,000 who died during the sanctions enfored by the coalition. Seems to me the republicans are more to blame then the army.

There fore, this has to be another Bush trick. We will have to wait for the punch line