Saddam lawyer says trial mockery of justice

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30199279.htm

AMMAN, June 30 (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's defence lawyer said on Wednesday the former dictator would not get a fair trial and his captors had already decided his fate.

"This is a mockery of justice. We are facing clear legal violations..the allegations that this is going to be a fair trial is baseless," said Mohammad Rashdan, one of a 20-strong legal team appointed by Saddam's wife to represent him. snip

Saddam will be charged with ordering the 1988 massacres of Kurds, the 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, according to Chalabi.

"They are afraid of a bringing out the truth because a fair trial would be an indictment of (U.S. President George W.) Bush. He has to first prove whether his entry into Iraq was legal or not," Rashdan said.

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[cthrumatrix]

1. did you ever expect other from this illegal invasion ?

[saigon68]

2. The Charge of Going to War against IRAN in 1982 --- PRICELESS

A War Crime done with Regan and Rumdumbs approval

[arcane1]

5. indeed, we are now officially down the rabbit-hole

Will Saddam even get a chance to take the stand? If he does, will it all be blacked-out, for "security" reasons??

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. Green Light Glasspie with Kuwait in 1990

alas... I will shed no tears for Saddam. If only he could drag Bush down into hell with him.

[daleo]

3. Round up all the suspects, charge them all

"Saddam will be charged with ordering the 1988 massacres of Kurds, the 1990 invasion of Kuwait and the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, according to Chalabi."

1980-88 Iran-Iraq war - Bush I/Reagan/Rummy/etc. (although Reagan beats this one by dying first) - supplying the weapons, chemical precursors, intelligence, etc.

1988 massacres of Kurds. - same thing.

1990 invasion of Kuwait - Bush I - luring him in ("we take no sides in inter-Arab disputes")

I notice rape rooms and torture chambers aren't mentioned. I wonder why?

[Red State Rebel]

4. Kinda like the justice he gave those men who were just in the US

who had their hands cut off on his orders?

Too bad Saddam - you play, you pay.

[leftchick]

7. "you play, you pay."......

well if that is the case what about poppy, rummy and the rest of this mis-administration and their connections to saddam's "evil deeds". Perhaps being on the "right side" there are no consequences?

[Cocoa]

8. who's his lawyer, Fielding Mellish?

"I object your honor. This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. I move for a mistrial."

[geek tragedy]

9. It's s traveshamockery!

They're probably trying him on the easiest ones to prove.

How will they off him? Firing squad? Sword?

[dArKeR]

10. Lawyers wanted to be by Saddam - MSWHORE

AMMAN, Jordan - Lawyers who claim to represent Saddam Hussein complained as they watched television pictures of the former Iraqi dictator appearing before a judge Thursday, saying they should have been by his side.

Saddam's appearance at an arraignment held in what had been one of his palace compounds dominated Arab TV Thursday. It was perhaps watched nowhere as closely as in the Amman offices of lawyers who say they were appointed to defend Saddam by the ousted dictator's wife, Sajidah.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5342317

[Solly Mack]

11. It is...but in Americas haste to cover up her own involvement

in some of Saddam's crimes, people will applaud this lack of due process as a "just" reward...never considering that WE ALL LOSE when the truth is suppressed.

Puppet government. Puppet Court. I honestly don't want to hear anyone complaining about America's imperialism when a so obvious example of American imperialism is being embraced as justice.

Send Saddam to a world court..and let the chips fall where they may.

[dArKeR]

12. Saddam's defence team slams 'illegal' tribunal

Amman, Jordan

Saddam Hussein's defence team, which has not yet been allowed to enter Iraq, on Thursday again slammed as "illegal" the Iraqi special tribunal trying the deposed dictator.

"This court is illegal since it was designated by an illegal authority, created by the occupation," one of the lawyers, Jordanian Ziad Khassawneh, said as Saddam appeared before the Baghdad court to hear charges against him.

"This procedure contravenes international laws and Geneva Convention, which consider null any accord struck between an occupier and a provisional government," he said.

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=118062

[dArKeR]

13. Saddam upsets Kuwaiti 'dogs'

He also referred to the Kuwaitis as "dogs", a comment that led to an admonishment from the judge for using such language in a court of law.

Abu-Hassan, the Kuwaiti official, reacted angrily to Saddam's comments about Kuwait, adding that his punishment should "certainly be execution".

http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=118085

So the 'judge' is following the rules? Then were are Saddam's lawyers?


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