Posted on 09/24/2006 5:47:01 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
SADDAM Hussein's defence team will boycott his genocide trial indefinitely, citing violations by the Iraqi court trying him, his chief lawyer said.
“The court committed several violations of the law and we will not just sit there gagged to give it legitimacy,” said Khalil al-Dulaimi, who is in charge of a nine-member defence team for the deposed Iraqi leader.
He said the lawyers would “indefinitely” boycott the trial, in which Saddam faces charges of committing genocide against Kurds in northern Iraq.
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Well let me see, hundreds of thousands dead, family and community members all called as witnesses. Crimes against humanity lined up beyond the horizon...
Well, if I were his lawyer I might stay home too.
I guess the lawyers aren't getting paid.
He nneds to die of a heart attack in jail. Call the guys who killed Milosovic and see how they did it.
Ramsey Clark will handle this.
if this trial doesn't get him,
the next, or the next,
will
With all of his outbursts during court one would have thought he'd be found in contempt and tossed out long ago. A trial 'in absentia' would certainly proceed much more smoothly, and a verdict more likely before he dies naturally of old age.
Good. Let him sit it out.
Get the trial done, pass judgment, and hang the SOB.
Nah. Meat hook, and hang him by a rib over a small fire and then make the whole contraption into a large tower clock pendulum. On the top of the hour the door in the clock tower is to be opened so he could be seen, and he is to be prodded to shout "cuckoo!". Imagine what kind of crowds would gather and what a kebab concession stand would bring!
What are the odds that Saddam will be executed before President Bush leaves office?
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