Posted on 12/05/2006 6:26:08 PM PST by Zakeet
AMMAN - Saddam Hussein wrote to the judge in the ethnic Kurdish genocide trial to tell him he would no longer attend court sessions to protest against being repeatedly silenced from speaking, his chief lawyer said on Tuesday.
In the letter which was handed to a defense team lawyer who saw him on Monday, the former Iraqi leader said he and his defense team had been denied "clarifying the truth" over his role in a military campaign that killed up to 180,000 people.
Saddam, who is awaiting an appeal against a death sentence from a separate case for the killing of Shi'ite villagers in the 1980s, was furious when the judge refused to give him an opportunity to refute prosecution allegations he swindled $10 billion of state assets.
"When I tried to clarify what happened by raising my hand three times I was not given a chance," Saddam wrote in the handwritten letter released by his lawyers.
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This guy is obviously well qualified for a position with MSM, DNC, or the liberal arts faculty at just about any US university.
when he raises his hand again,..........whack it off.
Just as long as he attends the hanging.
[Saddam tells judge(he)will stop attending hearings]
Saddam is going to stop doing a lot of things pretty soon.
Saddam is delaying as much as he can. If those trying the case have any sense they will liquidate him ASAP.
Maybe Saddam prefers his spider hole
The solider holding Saddam was spit on by the thug, The solider cold cocked him.
That 's why he out like a light
OH, that Saddam... he's so Prophetic!
Considering he'll be swinging from a rope soon .. that's a pretty good bet
Though I would like to see the POS hang
his ultimate fate is secure, hell is his ultimate reward. Let him die in prison, what do I care, as long as he stays in prison until he dies.
By the way
if I were the Judge, I would make him attend every minute of the trial weather he wants to be there or not.
Perhaps all those times you yelled insults, disrupted the court, publicly dissed the judge and tried to establish yourself as the supreme authority in your own trial might have had some influence upon the mood of the judge...?
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