Posted on 07/08/2004 2:52:48 AM PDT by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - Saddam's Hussein's 21-member legal team Wednesday scrapped plans to visit their client in Baghdad, claiming that they have been the target of death threats. Mohammad Rashdan, coordinator of the Saddam legal squad, said the threats were coming from Iraqi officials "who say they will tear us to pieces."
Another member of the legal team is Washington, D.C. lawyer Curtis Doebbler, whose track record shows this isn't the first time he has advised opponents of the United States.
Doebbler is currently one of about 20 lawyers appointed by Saddam's wife, Sajida, to represent the deposed Iraqi dictator.
Saddam was captured in a hole in the ground last December and appeared before an Iraqi judge on July 1. He had been held at a secret location before he was brought to Camp Victory, a U.S. base near Baghdad that was once one of Saddam's many lavish palaces, for an informal reading of charges.
Doebbler has repeatedly claimed that he and his colleagues have been denied access to their client.
During a July 6 interview with "Democracy Now!" Doebbler called Saddam's appearance in court "a media charade by the United States."
"The charges which were read out, if they were the charges, they would be a failing of the prosecutor, because they would be easy to refute," said Doebbler during the interview.
Saddam was accused of seven broad charges, including killing religious figures and political leaders, gassing Kurdish residents of Northern Iraq and invading Kuwait. His actual trial isn't expected until at least 2005.
Doebbler has not disclosed how he snagged his big-name client.
According to biographies posted on the Internet, Doebbler served as an adviser to the Taliban on the laws of war and consulted with detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. Biographies also state that he advised the Palestinian Authority, but Israel has prohibited him from returning to the occupied territories.
Doebbler has advised the government of Sudan on human rights, according to his website. Sudan is on the State Department's list of state-sponsors of terrorism. And he has written that the United States illegally occupied Afghanistan and Iraq.
"I believe that all people have a right and a duty to take all necessary measures to end the United States' inhumane dominance of the lives of billions of people," wrote Doebbler in a statement on his political views.
Doebbler has also published several poems online, including one that begins with the line "I am at war with America."
Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Doebbler studied in the United States, the Netherlands and England. He has taught at several universities, most recently at Tashkent State Institute of Law in Uzbekistan.
Doebbler usually charges $250 or more per hour for his services, although he will work for "indigent individuals or others" without charge.
In an interview with CNN, he predicted his defense of Saddam would be pro bono.
Other Americans may soon join Doebbler on Saddam's defense team. The Reuters news service reported that 700 non-Arabs, including 400 Americans and Europeans, are ready to defend Saddam.
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I suppose this is technical question, but is Curtis Doebbler licensed in Iraq to practice law?
Sounds good to me. Maybe we can all contribute to their plane tickets? One-way tickets would be all that are needed...
If we had a real CIA this guy Doebbler would make a great target for removal WITH predjudice. But of course we dont have a real CIA.
Sarah Junk?
This is the expanded paragraph that was cited in this article. He's a real piece of work. Does anybody have a picture of this guy?
The Mafia's toothless, too, since John Gotti died.
"Doebbler has advised the government of Sudan on human rights"
Sounds like he may need a lawyer.
The kid that fixes my speeding tickets charges this much. Good representation ( OK< Big Name, Roy Black, etc) is 4 to 10 times more than this guy.
Where is Ramsey Clark??
"A growing number of people in the world are recognising the great discrepancy between the "haves" and the "have nots". Equally, a finger is increasingly being pointed at the United States as primary perpetuating force behind global inequalities and direct violence, through its armed aggression around the world."
In support of Kathy Kelly.
I hope those Iraqi groups threatening Saddam's legal team actually succede and this guy is taken out.
We, the USA, should not spend one penney towards the protection of these lawyer scumbags.
In fact, let's send them ALL of our lawyers over there - that would take care of all our problems real fast!
This is a different topic, but related because it is about how communist activists just won a case in the Supreme Court.
If anyone would like to post what I wrote, just below, as a new thread, that would be nice and very appreciated. I don't know how to start a new topic. Here is my article:
By next Halloween, don't be surprised if the Supreme Court is passing out blindfolds, boxcutters and Zarqawi "how to" videos. The new statue for justice will still be blindfolded, but now it will be holding boxcutters. We are cutting our own throats with the "law." Take a look:
Guantanamo detainees are to be advised of their right to challenge their detentions in court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35423-2004Jul7.html
The inspiration behind this is a very young lawyer named Rachel Meeropol (some media accounts give her name incorrectly as Meerpool). http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040707/pl_afp/us_attacks_guantanamo_040707234052
She is the grandaughter of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the communist atomic spies who gave Stalin the bomb. Rachel is the child of one of their sons, who were adopted by a family called Meeropol. The Rosenberg/Meeropol family has scorned the justice of the trial the Rosenberg spies got. They call the Rosenberg trial "justice" with quotes around it.
The Lawyers' Guild, often described in the old days as a communist front, is helping. Do you think they get oil for food voucher money? All the other communists did. You can find out the breaking news about who got the money at www.memri.org Check the news ticker, too.
Now a communist movement--and many communist parties have been getting money from Saddam in recent years--is going to waste our money by trying to make us have a trial for each combatant we catch during a battle. That's going to make it very expensive to fight a war. And since when did communists care about about human rights and law?
I doubt Meeropol's minions care about the detainees. The purpose of such legal maneuvers is not to provide justice to the detainees but to discredit our justice system in the eyes of our public and to cripple it so that we will have even fewer legitimate weapons to fight this terrorist war. I think this same group worked to smear the FBI case against Peltier, who was convicted of the murder of two FBI agents.
How come newspapers always show what party money is behind political agendas unless, of course, it is the communists? How come people in the media can tell everything about Richard Mellon Scaife and identify him with the Republican-agendas, but this is a "smear tactic" if people point out communist money and agendas?
Communists don't care about people wrongfully detained. They hate the United States and will only happy when the justice system is cutting its own throat and when the the terrorists are crashing American planes and incinerating American citizens. They want America to lose the War on Terrorism. Meeropol and the folks behind her are giving aid and comfort to America's enemies.
See sources:
http://www.selvesandothers.org/view898.html
and
http://info.equaljusticeworks.org/fellowships/profiles/fellowprofile.asp?fguid=7998764375
I thought this was another Edwards thread.
This is a thread about how lawyers are helping our enemies. This goes beyond providing an honest defense.
Could you help me post what I wrote as a new thread?
Huh? I thought this would be about John Edwards. Bummer.
Please note my post referring to Edwards was dripping with sarcasm.
How can you be a punk and a pussy at the same time in that picture?
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