Posted on 01/29/2006 5:31:54 AM PST by Cornpone
Amman - International activists and lawyers involved in the defence of Saddam Hussein said on Sunday they would organize a mock trial of US President George W Bush and the British and Israeli prime ministers for alleged war crimes committed in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
The prosecution will be headed by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who sits on Saddam's defence team, according to one of the organizers.
The two-day event, slated to open on Friday in the Egyptian capital, will be sponsored by the Cairo-based Arab Lawyers Federation and bring together international lawyers and human rights activists, including former Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella and ex-Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad, said Ziad Khasawneh, the federation's assistant secretary general and once Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer.
He told The Associated Press that former South African leader and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela had accepted an invitation to be the chief judge "if his health condition allowed him to travel."
Ben Bella and Mohamad are also part of a committee to ensure Saddam's trial is fair.
The witnesses include former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix, who monitored Iraq's weapons program under Saddam, and Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, who was kidnapped in Iraq in February 2005 and released a month later.
Charges against Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon include "crimes committed against civilians in Palestine and Iraq," Khasawneh said, declining to elaborate. He said details would be unveiled at the event.
The trial is not legally binding, but it will be an "exhibition of popular opposition to the policies of those three leaders in the region and the extent of harm and damage they inflicted on civilians and countries by wars they waged and the oppression practiced in jails run by their (security) forces," Khasawneh said in an interview.
Saddam lawyers and other international activists have long spoken of plans to convene the mock trial, saying the publicity would help expose their views that Saddam was innocent of war crimes and that Bush and Blair were "aggressors" because they invaded Iraq under the false pretext that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons were ever found.
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Is there anything that Ramsey Clark won't do? I guess he hasn't made the trip to Venezuela yet. But he will.
Nobel Peace Prize, no. But maybe the Tony.
I would like to see Ramsey Clark placed on trial.
I'd like to see Ramsey Clark face treason charges.
Let's remember that Clark was Jimmuh Carter's Attorney General. And who was it who lost Iran and ushered in this era of worldwide terrorism? Why, it was Clark's boss, Jimmuh Carter.
What's with all the scripting in your post?
Don't have a clue. What I tried to say was, "True, but I suspect the attorney general feels he has a winnable insanity defense."
"Let's remember that Clark was Jimmuh Carter's Attorney General."
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He was LBJ's AG.
Amman - International activists and lawyers involved in the defence of Saddam Hussein said on Sunday they would organize a mock trial of US President George W Bush and the British and Israeli prime ministers for alleged war crimes committed in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
The prosecution will be headed by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who sits on Saddam's defence team, according to one of the organizers.
Animal House
written by Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller, & Harold Ramis
D-Day (Bruce McGill): War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter (Tim Matheson): [whispering] Germans?
Boon (Peter Riegert): Forget it, he's rolling.
Bluto: And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough... [thinks hard] the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! [runs out, alone; then returns] What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer -
Otter: Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
Bluto: We're just the guys to do it.
Chavez may be just too moderate for Clark's taste.
It is an unChrist-like sentiment, but Ramsey Clark makes me glad that I believe in Hell.
Rather see him hung. But I could settle for your suggestion.
You don't say?
I'll bet Jimmy Carter certifies the verdict as authentic.
There must be a glitch in the Matrix. I'll have to have a word with Lord Rove about that.
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