Surprise, surprise, surprise!
Posted on 08/24/2004 7:01:39 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
AMMAN, 25 August 2004 — Former US Justice Secretary Ramsey Clark is expected to join a legal team seeking to defend former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before a special Iraqi tribunal, the panel’s chairman Mohammad Rashdan announced yesterday.
“Negotiations are under way for Clark’s joining of the team,” Rashdan told Arab News, without going into details.
Clark, an ardent sympathizer with Saddam’s government, will become one of the distinguished members of the panel, that also included former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas and some 20 prominent Arab and non-Arab lawyers who volunteered to defend the former Iraqi leader.
Rashdan also revealed that a “group of Iraqi lawyers will arrive in Amman shortly” for coordinating the group’s efforts. He refused to divulge their names for security reasons.
Under the Iraq Bar Association bylaws, any foreign lawyer seeking involvement in litigation before Iraqi courts should be accompanied by an Iraqi lawyer.
“Contacts are going on among Amman, Paris and Geneva to ensure travel of the legal team at the opportune time for defending President Saddam,” Rashdan said.
Ensuring physical protection of the team’s members while in Iraq so far represented the most thorny issue after they received assassination threats by Iraqi ministers and groups affiliated with the government, according to team members.
Rashdan earlier said that his panel was obliged to resort to “private protection” to be provided by certain firms in Iraq after the Iraqi government failed to guarantee safety of the team’s members.
Saddam appeared in public before a special Iraqi court for the first time on July 1, when he refused to sign the indictment list in the absence of his lawyers.
Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi recently called for “speeding up” trial of Saddam and other figures of the previous regime.
I still don't understand why this a**hole has never been indicted for treason.
He's best friends with Kerry.
Surprise, surprise, surprise!
He keeps turning up in dark, dank places, like mold.
Yeah, they should indict that a**hole too!
The pictures of these those two clowns together during the VVAW protests would make wonderful campaign fodder.
Former US Justice Secretary Ramsey Clark IS A DEMOCRAT
Ramsey Clark was a good buddy of John Kerry's during those protest years, wasn't he? I recall a photo of these two Anti-Americans in Sheeps' clothing from back then.
They're coming out of the woodwork!
Pretty simple really.....I'm sure he's worked out a fat retainer.......With the tailspin the Kerry campaign is in and the likelyhood Kerry won't be handing out presidential appointments any decade soon, the liberals who tag along for scraps need to pay for their Starbucks and Georgetown condo's somehow?
He keeps turning up in dark, dank places, like mold.
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When they find Saddam guilty, could they hang him and then his lawyers?
Too bad XXXlintigula got disbarred or he could help out as well.
Can we connect Kerry solidly to Clark? (other than Carter's appearance at the convention)
"Clark, an ardent sympatizer with Saddam's government..."
Leaves you kind of speechless
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