Gunmen threaten to behead Saddam lawyers

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http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2004/July/focusoniraq_July72.xml§ion=focusoniraq

BAGHDAD - Brandishing assault rifles and grenade launchers, masked Islamists threatened in a taped message on Thursday to behead any lawyers defending deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.


“Saif al-Allah (The Sword of God) group, belonging to the Islamic Jihad, warns all those who defend the criminal file of the cowardly criminal Saddam ... that we will sever your necks before you arrive,” one gunman read from a piece of paper. snip

The seven gunmen, faces hidden by chequered head-dresses, said they would bring God’s justice down on the heads of anyone who sought to defend the former president, accused of gassing Iraq’s Kurds, crushing a Shi’ite uprising, and condemning countless Iraqis to death in his dreaded torture chambers.

“We will sentence you with cutting off your heads,” one of the gunmen said, as they all drew out long glistening blades.

more...But, but, I thought the Islamists liked Saddam? Thats what Cheney said anyway.

[colonel odis]

1. ladieeeees and gentlemen! back from their mid-80s tour

of central america.....

it's the paramilitary death squaaaads!!!!!!

brought to you by john negroponte productions.

i guess we can expect to see a few nuns murdered in the weeks ahead.

[Barrett808]

3. I'm surprised this threat didn't come from "National Salvation"

Maybe they'll sign on later.

[struggle4progress]

2. Related thread: lawyers cancel visit

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x671342

This trial belongs in the Hague

[MGKrebs]

4. "Gunmen" threaten with swords. Just sounds bizarre.

Why aren't they "swordsmen"?

"SWORDSMEN THREATEN TO SHOOT LAWYERS".

OK. I have a twisted sense of humor.

[truthisfreedom]

6. maybe they're intending to shoot their heads off. they may have a lot of

bullets to spare.

[tom_paine]

5. Sounds like Ambassdaor of Death Squads is busy busy busy these days

Now that John "Eichmann" Negroponte is on the job we will never again be sure who the murderers are working for.



Imperial Amerikan Eichmann -- Ambassador of Death Squads John Negroponte



The original Eichmann -- Hitler's John Negroponte

[Media_Lies_Daily]

7. Exactly what I was thinking.

[AlCzervik]

8. Isn't * always yapping

about how the extremists loved Saddam and how he helped them? Another lie perpetrated by Baghdad Bush

[daleo]

9. Lots of people here predicted U.S. sponsored death squads

This is right out of the Reagan playbook of the 80's. The Bush administration is the only group with a vested interest in keeping lawyers (and therefore evidence that would make the BFEE look bad) out of the Saddam trial.

[pinniped]

10. Probably the same group who threatened to kill alleged #1 terror...

mastermind Al-Zacawi.

Probably hired by the same group too.