Posted on 07/29/2004 3:14:43 AM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
SADDAM'S 'STROKE'
Jul 28 2004
Ex-dictator's lawyer says he had brain scan and could die
Exclusive By Gary Jones In Amman, Jordan
SADDAM Hussein has suffered a minor stroke and could die before his trial, his defence lawyers claim.
The multinational legal team is still awaiting permission to visit the deposed Iraqi ruler.
A letter demanding their doctor be given access to the former dictator was yesterday sent by Jordanian lawyer Mohammed al-Rashdan to Salem Chalebi, the head of the Iraqi prosecuting authorities.
Mr al-Rashdan said: "Our information is that he's in very poor health. We understand from the International Committee of the Red Cross that our client has had a brain scan to discover how badly he has been affected by the stroke. We believe he could die because of his health problems.
"We also think an attempt may be made on his life.
"We're very worried that we won't have a client to defend." He added: "Under the Geneva Convention we're entitled to have access to our client. But all our requests have been ignored."
In a form letter delivered by the Red Cross in January to his wife Sajida, living in Qatar, Saddam put a cross in boxes for "good health" and "slightly wounded".
"His finger appears to have been wounded, possibly by gunshot, when he was captured," said Mr Rashdan. "But we believe his health has deteriorated.
"We believe any trial could be months, if not years away - I think Bush and Blair would be happier if he died from ill health."
My heart bleeds.
You know, this was reported by Al Jazeera yesterday, but I haven't seen anything else from a credible source confirming the story.
Nor I, but Fox News was talking about it this morning.
281 comments about it here.
And I didn't see the first one them.
My heart bleeds.
LOL Yeah, I'm rather anxious to see him meet his 72 Virgins, but I think it would be a tragedy if the Iraqi people were robbed of the chance to send him to hell themselves.
Eh?
Hmmmmmm..it didn't pop up in the search.
I wonder if it's a stroke.</conspiracy theory>
Not everybody sees an article the first time it's posted.
So sometimes it's a "good" thing when we get a double post.
Also FR's so called "Search" is a joke.
Typical lawyer BS.
Go back 10 years and replace name "Saddam" with "O.J. Simpson" and you could get same story.
and if you want to see all of the comments etc than follow my link. I was not being critical merely trying to point to the other thread where there are lots of comments and links to other sources.
You know, I didn't have a stroke, but I COULD die before Saddam's trial too.
The soldiers were about 2 seconds from throwing a grenade into Saddam's hidy-hole but they didn't shoot him.
I think Bush and Blair would be happier if he died from ill health.
The writer couldn't be more wrong. Please, please, Saddam, please don't die before the Iraqi's execute you. And guard him well. We want an Iraq that's good enough to hold on to him until he gets his trial and execution.
So What? Natural causes! If he dies, he dies.
I may have a heart attack tomorrow and die.
It's not a joke if you do it right.
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