Really?
http://balkansnet.org/srebrenica1.html
Posted on 10/16/2005 7:01:04 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Oct 16, 2005 09:49 ET
NEWSWEEK: Saddam Hussein May Model His Defense on Slobodan Milosevic's 'Grandstanding' at the Hague, Says Former U.S. Occupation Spokesperson
Saddam's Lawyer Claims 'Severe American Monitoring' Has Made it Impossible to Properly Prepare for Trial
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 -- Saddam Hussein's lead lawyer, Khalil Dulaimi, claims he has not been allowed to properly prepare a case for his client, report Baghdad Correspondent Babak Dehghanpisheh and Senior Editor Michael Hirsh. "All my meetings with him are being done under severe American monitoring," Dulaimi tells Newsweek in the October 24 issue (on newsstands Monday, October 17). "We're not even allowed to exchange the legal documents in the case."
But Saddam is apparently doing some preparing of his own. According to Dulaimi, Saddam is studying "a small book of the Geneva Conventions," the rules of war that American forces have been accused of violating in Iraq. "He and millions of Iraqis insist he is the legitimate president," Dulaimi tells Newsweek. "He was deposed by an external armed force that was not based in its aggression on any legal cause or justification."
In determining his defense strategy, Saddam is also reportedly looking to other former dictators for inspiration. U.S. officials fear that when he goes on trial this week for crimes against humanity, he will try to emulate the grandstanding of Slobodan Milosevic, the former Serb tyrant. "Saddam monitored Milosevic's performance at The Hague and was very impressed with it," says former U.S. occupation spokesman Dan Senor, who worries that the trial will "inflame" Sunni insurgents in the short run. Like Milosevic, Saddam plans to argue that his captors have no right to try him at all. "He thinks that anything being done under occupation is illegitimate," says another one of Saddam's lawyers, Khamis Obaidi.
While Senor concedes Saddam's trial could be a "short-term stimulant" for the insurgency, he also argues that in the long run it will be healthy for Iraq as past atrocities, like the genocidal gassing of Kurds in the late 1980s, are re-examined. "It will help Iraq go through its own truth-and- reconciliation process," he says. "It will bring closure."
A laawyer who defends himslf has a fool for a chient.
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Hmmm. He had better hope that it will work better than his modeling on the Serbian military strategy that put old Slobo in the Hague.
As far as dershowitz, I don't think the Iraquis would view him with much respect. - He might find himself swinging from a rope there beside Saddam.
Iraq is not the EU.
Balkans Bump
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The main difference is that there is no evidence against Milosevic.
Really?
http://balkansnet.org/srebrenica1.html
They were military age and muslim terrorists. I'd vote to acquit.
The gallows should be constructed and tested 24/7 right outside Saddam's cell window. Right up to the day that he actually swings.
Won't fly, Saddam is fried.
All three indictments allege that the former head of state was a leader of a joint criminal enterprise with an objective of making Serbs the dominant group in Yugoslavia by exterminating, confining, deporting, sexually assaulting, subjugating, and otherwise terrorizing and persecuting non-Serbs in the territories...
In the opening statements of the trial, Carla Del Ponte, the Tribunal’s Chief Prosecutor, accused Milosevic of responsibility for crimes that left 200,000 dead out of a pure lust for power. "Some of the incidents revealed an almost medieval savagery and a calculated cruelty that went beyond the bounds of legitimate warfare," she said...
http://www.crimesofwar.org/onnews/news-milosevic2.html
No worries - like Slobo, Saddam will have his defenders as well, and they'll come up with the same BS denials and rationalizations as Slobo.
It's just the way of the world.
The dramatic lack of attacks yesterday (Constitution
Day) suggests that the Dead Enders, External Agitators
and Cutthroat Cultists are fading fast in Iraq.
Saddam has no significant local audience of supporters
to play to.
Freeing Saddam is likely not seen as desirable by either
the Cutthroat Cult or Syria/Iran.
There will be no successful attempts at a jail break for
Saddam.
The new government will feel far more legit than it
would have even a few months ago, and it likely contains
no factions interested in sparing Saddam.
This trial is not being held in The Hague. The jurists
and jury will not contain brain-damaged dictator-adoring
liberals.
He's toast. But the trial promises to make great TV.
Expect Greta to be all over it.
*sigh*
This trial needs to be run like the Nuremberg trials...just the facts, and can only defend against the charges.
The Germans tried to turn it into a "you're guilty too" show, but it wasn't allowed.
Wasn't he fired?
"More than 2,000 lawyers had volunteered for Saddam's defense team, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and a daughter of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Others who said they were on the team included Anglo-Italian lawyer Giovanni di Stefano who once worked on behalf of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, and Roland Dumas, a colorful octogenarian who served as French foreign minister from 1988 to 1993 and acted as executor of Pablo Picasso's estate."
Ramsey Clark... yeah, that should help Saddam. ;')
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