Posted on 07/10/2006 5:26:15 AM PDT by Aussie Dasher
SADDAM Hussein's lawyers have said they will boycott the toppled leader's trial until a sweeping series of demands are met, following the killing of a third member of the defence team last month.
In a statement issued hours after the trial began hearing final arguments in defence of one of Saddam's minor co-accused, the defence team said: "We will suspend our attendance ... from July 10 ... until the following fair demands are met."
The six demands included more security and a probe into the lawyer's killing.
"The American authorities should be committed to provide adequate protection to the Iraqi lawyers and their families," the statement said.
The defence team also slammed as "striking interference in judicial affairs" comments made earlier this month by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in which the Shi'ite leader said he hoped Saddam would be executed soon.
Bugger the lawyers, the trial and Saddam. Shoot him already!!!! (Why not, shoot the lawyers, too!)
Well this should speed up the trial significantly! Someone start boiling the rope!
I wonder if they will boycott the execution too?
I wonder if anyone is still supporting putting Saddam on trial. A farce and a colossal waste of time. They should have thrown him to the wolves. Instead we get this.
President Bush(2001):
Hey, just getting even for the judge murdered before the trial started!
The joke is on his lawyers. Saddam is more than likely responsible for the demise of his own attorneys in an attempt to delay the trial.
I absolutely agree. Get James Bond to sneak in the cells, off Saddam and the lawyers and in fact get Sadr while you are at it. And I am not kidding except with the Bond allusion. In fact, the entire Sunni triangle should have been bombed into the Stone Age 3 years ago. Too bad it is too late to do so now.
Just another following of their mentors.Recalling the Democrats in Texas running to Oklahoma to try and avoid the inevitable redistricting political death. Children and others with small brains act that way.
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