Posted on 08/24/2004 7:01:39 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
AMMAN, 25 August 2004 — Former US Justice Secretary Ramsey Clark is expected to join a legal team seeking to defend former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before a special Iraqi tribunal, the panel’s chairman Mohammad Rashdan announced yesterday.
“Negotiations are under way for Clark’s joining of the team,” Rashdan told Arab News, without going into details.
Clark, an ardent sympathizer with Saddam’s government, will become one of the distinguished members of the panel, that also included former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas and some 20 prominent Arab and non-Arab lawyers who volunteered to defend the former Iraqi leader.
Rashdan also revealed that a “group of Iraqi lawyers will arrive in Amman shortly” for coordinating the group’s efforts. He refused to divulge their names for security reasons.
Under the Iraq Bar Association bylaws, any foreign lawyer seeking involvement in litigation before Iraqi courts should be accompanied by an Iraqi lawyer.
“Contacts are going on among Amman, Paris and Geneva to ensure travel of the legal team at the opportune time for defending President Saddam,” Rashdan said.
Ensuring physical protection of the team’s members while in Iraq so far represented the most thorny issue after they received assassination threats by Iraqi ministers and groups affiliated with the government, according to team members.
Rashdan earlier said that his panel was obliged to resort to “private protection” to be provided by certain firms in Iraq after the Iraqi government failed to guarantee safety of the team’s members.
Saddam appeared in public before a special Iraqi court for the first time on July 1, when he refused to sign the indictment list in the absence of his lawyers.
Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi recently called for “speeding up” trial of Saddam and other figures of the previous regime.
:-)
The peanut farmer is probably going to volunteer to "observe" the jury votes and investigate "voter fraud".
His education at the University of Chicago??? (My apologies to the great Milton Friedman).
I admit, the same thought occurred to me. Best to proceed with caution on the sourcing.
There should be some kind of mandatory execution for anyone who willingly seeks to defend Saddam in a court of law
Don't forget .. Old Ramsey Clark is supporting John Kerry for President
You could not be more correct my freind.
Mr Clark is to be Pitied!!
Doc
Seems Clark moved to California at a young age.
•When my family moved to Los Angeles when I was a kid, before World War II, it was a paradise. The word smog hadn't been invented. There were no such things as freeways. There were mountains, beaches, deserts, and wildlife, and 49 percent of the land in the area was owned by the people of the United States. But the machinery that would destroy that paradise had already been put in motion.•
From a long barf-filled interview by DERRICK JENSEN in the Sun Magazine (I found through a Google search). I've never heard of it but it sounds from this article that it's a leftist web site.
And no I don't need any tinfoil. The man is as far-left as they come.
OMG. I'm sure you noticed Ramsey Clark was mentioned in the book Unfit for Command. Just when you think they can't go any lower...
Please do not post Corbis photos here. There is a copyright
complaint.
Maybe not super-reliable, on the other hand, this is not an outlet operating out of a basement in a mosque.
ArabNews Overview
The First English Daily Newspaper in Saudi Arabia Published simultaneously from Jeddah, Riyadh and Dhahran In 1975 Saudi Research & Publishing Co. (SRPC) launched the first Saudi English-language daily newspaper, ArabNews. For more than a quarter of a century ArabNews has been breaking cultural barriers and unifying Arabs and non-Arabs alike in responding to their need for information. ArabNews has evolved successfully into the well respected, leading paper it is today.
From its initiation, the paper has been serving the interests of both the Saudis and a large expatriate community and in consequence introduced them to each other. The challenge which is successfully accomplished each morning is meeting the needs of the different cultural communities which make up the diverse population of the Kingdom. ArabNews offers regional news from Europe, America, India, Pakistan, Philippines and other Middle Eastern countries in English for the heterogeneous mix of its loyal readers. Local news, business news, sports and features are provided for all, unlike other newspapers which may be serving a homogeneous audience. Circulation: 51.768 (ABC, January-June 1998) Distribution: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Near East, North Africa, Europe and USA
SPRC, established 1972, has become one of the most important publishing groups in the Arab world. Since then, the list of publications has grown to include 18 daily, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines, all leaders in their respective fields in the Arab and non-Arab world.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=16&d=25&m=8&y=2004&mode=AboutUs.htm§ionlist
Also from the same article:
•Clark's father was attorney general in the 1940s and later a Supreme Court justice•
I Still think Mr Clark's Mind was "Tampered With" a couple of Decades ago.
NO "Normal American" could "Hold His Viewpoint" unless he was "Seriously Twisted."
Mr Clark's Background PRECLUDES such a "Belief System" unless his Mind was "Tampered With!"
Doc
Oh, this makes sense. One nut defends another nut.
Real shocker, right?
B. If so, why hasn't it been repealed and Clark made to repay every penny?
P.O.S. through and through.
HAS BEEN NEEDING SOME ATTENTION.
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