Posted on 12/04/2005 6:48:22 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Plot to Rocket Saddam Trial Uncovered
14 minutes ago
A Sunni Arab insurgent group was plotting to attack the trial of Saddam Hussein when it resumed Monday, Iraq's national security adviser said Sunday.
The statement by national security adviser Mouwaffak al-Rubaie's office said the 1920 Revolution Brigades planned to fire rockets at the court building during Monday's session. Iraqi intelligence uncovered the plot, but the statement did not say whether anyone had been arrested.
Saddam and seven co-defendants are on trial for the 1982 killing of more than 140 Shiite Muslims in the town of Dujail following an assassination attempt against him there. The defendants face the death penalty if convicted.
The trial resumed Nov. 28, with a combative Saddam lashing out at his treatment by American "occupiers and invaders" and lecturing the chief judge about leadership.
It then adjourned until Monday, only 10 days before the country's parliamentary elections, to give the defense time to replace lawyers who have been assassinated since the trial opened Oct. 19.
The slow pace of the proceedings has angered many Iraqis — especially majority Shiites — who believe Saddam should have already been punished for his alleged crimes. Shiites and Kurds were heavily oppressed by Saddam's Sunni Arab-dominated regime.
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who has joined Saddam's defense team as an advisor, said he and other international lawyers will meet the former leader later in the day to set out a defense strategy.
Clark left Amman, Jordan, for Baghdad early Sunday with Jordanian lawyer Issam Ghazawi and ex-Qatari Justice Minister Najib al-Nueimi. The three are advising Saddam's lead Iraqi lawyer, Khalil Dulaimi.
The meeting with Saddam would be the second in six days.
"It will be our first real meeting where we'll have the chance to discuss the trial," Clark told AP Television News before flying to Baghdad.
"He's being held in total isolation, not seeing any member of his family, any friend, anybody he knew before.
"When we first met him a week ago, Monday, it was very short. It was a social meeting, because he hadn't seen anybody for a long time; you don't feel like talking business.
"So, hopefully we'll have the first opportunity to discuss the charges and the case and how the defense should proceed."
Oh, well, he is still around.:(
Further, (sarcasm/on) the plot was uncovered by Iraqi intelligence who captured an al quaeda operative and, according to the torture rules of the Democratic leadership in Washington, tortured him with endless Barry Manilow CD's, tickled his feet and had him watch countless reruns of Ishtar.
(sarcasm/off) anyone that thinks this information was found out without the use of torture is freakin crazy. I'd be willing to bet Iraqi "interrogation techniques" utitilize methods that most of the world hasn't even thought of yet.
Some answers are too easy aren't they... :)
Oh that's right, we're dealing with terrorists here, they'd just kill everyone in all three trailers. Nevermind.
I would put my money on one or more paid informants
Don't forget the heart-to-heart talks with Barbra Streisand. THAT's what really did it.
This way, they can later claim Saddam received an incompetent defense and move for a mistrial!
Very clever strategy.
It doesn't say, but what type and what is the range of the rockets the terrorists were going to use? Is not the trial taking place inside the "green zone", the most "secure" area in Iraq?
Ramsey probably came over to get inside info out to the potential bombers.
"It will be our first real meeting where we'll have the chance to discuss the trial," Clark told AP Television News before flying to Baghdad.
When we first met him a week ago, Monday, it was very short. It was a social meeting, because he hadn't seen anybody for a long time; you don't feel like talking business.
Oh how sweet. They spent their first meeting catching up on old times
put his playpen out in the streets and get it over with
Why do Sunni want to assinate Saddam?
thats just what they 'want' you to think
I would submit that thier goal is to show that the trial venue is unsafe in an effort to get the trial moved to a new venue such as a UN or world court, knowing that if the trial is conducted in a world court it would become a circus in which the terrorist could propogate all sorts of sympathy and misinformation
That should read:
if the trial is conducted in a world court it would become a circus in which the terrorist could garner all sorts of sympathy and propogate misinformation
I see that this story has been moved to the back burner by Fox news in order to give us live coverage of a helicopter chasing a black camaro at low speed in LA
Yeesh
Hang Saddam and the rest now. Have the trial later when things settle down.
Because Ibin Pharteen, cousin of Ubin Pharteen, is the stepson of Udey, brother of Kudey, (that are both, uh, now deadey, by the way), and he can pinpoint the exact location of where Saddam'a dirty bombs are hidden.
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