600 sign up for Saddam

Gulf Daily News (Bahrain) ^ | 12/29/03

[Pokey78]

AMMAN: More than 600 lawyers have signed up to defend captive Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the head of Jordan's Bar Association told the Jordan Times newspaper yesterday. Hussein Mjalli said the volunteers had signed up at the association's offices in Amman and that 600 lawyers indicated their readiness to be part of a defence team for the former president of Iraq.

"The intention is to form a higher committee for the defence of Saddam, one which will include legal experts from all over the world," Mjalli said.

The general secretariat of the Arab Lawyers' Union was, meanwhile, due to meet in Cairo to discuss plans for setting up the defence team, he added.

[ChadGore]

Can't we send that hair-do guy from the DNC over there ? What's his name . . ummm from SC Saddam would love em!?

[tsmith130]

What a slap in the face to the people of Iraq.

[Glenn]

Saddam has billions tucked away. What self-respecting lawyer wouldn't want to represent that potential payday?

[cake_crumb]

I'm sure the people of Iraq are thrilled at how well Pan Arabism is working and have a case of the warm fuzzies over the way their Arab brothers feel their pain.

[GreenHornet]

I just figured Mark Geragos would take the case.

[MEG33]

Exactly.I'll bet the Iraqis are thrilled at their arab bretheren.Wonder how much the 600 expect to be paid?

[AQGeiger]

Don't forget America's own Ramsey Clark, who last week expressed the desire to represent Saddam during trial.

[Drango]

600 lawyers have signed up

How abnout the 72 virgins? Have they been identified?

[GulfWar1Vet]

mmm..I wonder if Johnnie Cochran among the 600?

LoL

[cake_crumb]

Hillary's allegedly a lawyer, as well as The Smartest Woman in the World...has she weighed in yet? What a way to get her first taste of court experience.

[alrea]

legal experts from all over the world

hand him over to the tortured, raped or relatives of the murdered; spare us the cost of a trial

[SandRat]

Maybe some of the Mafia Dons mouthpieces will go over to represent him look how long they were able to keep John Gotti out of the slammer.

[Hajman]

What a slap in the face to the people of Iraq.

I say give him his 600 laywers. But then let every single Iraqi, alive and dead, that has been harmed directly or indirectly by Saddam, come in as evidence against him. Bury him 6 feet under with the weight of the evidence.

-The Hajman-

[McGavin999]

Personally, I hope they all show up. I want to watch their faces as the evidence is shown. I want to see them try to look their Arab brothers in the face when they take off their shirts and show the scars left from the acid baths, and the arms and legs that were removed, and the eyes and ears that were cut off. I want to watch them as those who had their tounges removed write their answers on a chalkboard.

I want to see their faces when the pictures of the mass graves are shown.

Yes, I hope they all show up.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I say that the lawyer who defends Sadam meets the same fate that Sadam does-hopefully at the end of a rope.

[denydenydeny]

However many of them there are, it doesn't help that Saddam admits the atrocities: He only says that the hundreds of thousands of victims were all "thieves." Even from a sharia point of view, he doesn't have much of a defense.

[Virginia-American]

hand him over to the tortured, raped or relatives of the murdered

My fantasy: just ship hm to Kurdistan, let the Kurds administer traditional justice.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Who is signing up to represent the victims and their families in this? Are any of these snakes offering to do that?

[saquin]

And here's what one of the Iraqi bloggers thinks of this:

"Hi Friends,

It was announced today that 600 Jordanian Lawyers have volunteered to defend Saddam Hussain. So it is SH that needs defending, the poor guy. These people know more than anybody else the crimes and atrocities and the damage, which this maniac has caused. They know that much better than any westerner. They know more than anybody else about the mass graves, the torture and mayhem. They know, and they don’t care. In fact they seem to sympathize with what has been done to the Iraqi people.

What can we say? Iraqis will not easily forget this. Sympathizers of the most notorious serial mass murderer of our people in history, we shall not forget. You are his partners in crime. We shall not forget. You will pay dearly, be sure of that. You send your murderers to bomb our streets and school children and trying to deny us normal life. Watch out, retribution will come.

And some imbeciles talk to us about Pan Arabism and such like nonsense. Go have your head examined, simpletons.

Salaam

Alaa"

THE MESOPOTAMIAN