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The convicted quadruple murderer who founded the notorious Crips street gang has mobilized Hollywood celebrities in a bid to avert execution next month. This, despite admitting his crimes to others, the eyewitness accounts of accomplices, and jailhouse plots to escape by killing two sheriff's deputies and, later, one of those who testified against him. Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed Dec. 13 by lethal injection but is appealing to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency, with the help of celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Jesse Jackson, Desmond Tutu, Harry Belafonte, Russell Crowe, actor Mike Farrell, Academy Award-winner Jamie...
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Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is "very likely" to be hanged if convicted on charges of war crimes and genocide, Britain's former special envoy to Iraq said. Sir Jeremy Greenstock said the Iraqi authorities would reinstate capital punishment as the ultimate sanction in their criminal code. The punishment was suspended during the coalition's rule of the country. Saddam faced a range of charges including the gassing of Iraqi Kurds and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait when he made a preliminary appearance before a court in Baghdad last week. Interviewed on BBC 1's Breakfast with Frost, Sir Jeremy said: "If he...
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Saddam Hussein's response to being brought before the Iraqi court which will try him for the thousands of murders he committed when he was President of Iraq has helped the world to understand how he managed to rule that country for 35 years. He has not been cowed or intimidated, and has shown no sign of a sense of humiliation, still less guilt. He has swaggered in front of the Iraqi court, his glistening contempt for the proceedings evident in every word he said. His unrepentant demeanour is evidently being extremely well received by many Arabs. Those Iraqis who remain...
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“LAW, what law?” sneered Saddam Hussein in the small courthouse in the grounds of al-Faw palace. At his arraignment on Thursday, the fallen despot denounced as a farce the legal proceedings and dismissed the power of the court to try him. Saddam looks as if he will emulate his fellow dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, by using every trick and procedure available in a Western-style trial to turn it into a political soap opera, dragged out over months and years. Muhammad Rashdan, a Jordanian lawyer hired by Saddam’s wife Sajjidah, argues that no Iraq court has the authority to try a man...
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SADDAM Hussein was "very demure and scared" during his first court hearing, according to Salem Chalabi, head of the Iraqi Special Tribunal which is trying the former dictator. The fallen tyrant appeared defiant in the dock from TV footage beamed around the world, saying: "Bush is the real criminal." However, Mr Chalabi said Saddam suffered a series of mood swings. "The worst mood swing was when the judge began to read the charges against him," Mr Chalabi told BBC2’s Newsnight programme. "His mood suddenly dropped and he realised what he was up against - except when it came to Kuwait....
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BAGHDAD -- An aged but combative Saddam Hussein appeared in an Iraqi court yesterday morning, facing charges of war crimes against his neighbors and genocide against his people. "I am Saddam Hussein, the president of the Republic of Iraq," the unrepentant former dictator told a special tribunal convened to try the top dozen members of his former regime. He said President Bush was the "real criminal." It was the first time that the former dictator had been seen in public since his medical examination after being found in a "spider hole" in December. Most of the people gathered in Baghdad's...
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BAGHDAD — Saddam Hussein, looking thinner after nearly seven months as a U.S. captive, was transferred to Iraqi custody today, reducing him to a criminal defendant in the land he once ruled and launching the painful process of holding him and his top aides accountable for their crimes. The former dictator and 11 of his top lieutenants are no longer prisoners of war but still locked up with U.S. forces as their jailers. On Thursday, the 12 will appear before an Iraqi judge to hear criminal charges likely to include war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. President Ghazi al-Yawer...
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A defiant Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) rejected charges of war crimes and genocide against him in a court appearance Thursday, telling a judge "this is all theater, the real criminal is Bush," according to a reporter in an official media pool. Saddam's hands were cuffed when he was brought to the court but the shackles were removed for the 30-minute arraignment at Camp Victory, a former Saddam palace on the outskirts of Baghdad. "I am Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq," Saddam twice said, according to the CNN reporter, who described him as alternately downcast...
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KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's information minister slammed Saddam Hussein for defending Iraq's 1990 invasion of the neighboring Gulf country during his Thursday court appearance in Baghdad and said the former Iraqi leader should be executed. "The criminal still believes he is the president of Iraq," Mohammed Abul-Hassan told The Associated Press in Kuwait after watching the televised images of Saddam appearing in an Iraqi court. "Just imagine if he was still ruling Iraq." Saddam is facing seven broad charges, including the 1990 invasion of Kuwait, which was occupied by Iraqi forces for seven months until being liberated by a U.S.-led...
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BAGHDAD - Downcast but defiant, Iraq's deposed dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before an Iraqi tribunal on Thursday, refusing to recognize its authority and saying the "real criminal" was President Bush.Saddam, who arrived at the courthouse in handcuffs and chains, was read seven charges under a preliminary arrest warrant and told his rights, pool reporters granted access to the heavily guarded proceedings said. "I am Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq," he repeated. Video footage of the 67-year-old Saddam, looking thinner, haggard and with a mostly gray beard, was broadcast around the world soon after his 30-minute court appearance. He had heavy...
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Jul 1, 9:08 AM (ET) BAGHDAD (Reuters) - He arrived handcuffed and in chains at a courtroom in a complex that was once one of his palaces. But although Saddam Hussein has been overthrown and captured, he had not lost his defiance. "I am Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq," he told a hearing where he was read seven charges, according to pool reporters in the courtroom at Camp Victory, a sprawling U.S. base that was previously a lavish hunting estate with a man-made lake. "This is all theater. The real criminal is (U.S. President George W.) Bush," he said. In...
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein stands accused of gassing Iraq's Kurds, crushing its Shi'ites and condemning thousands to death in his dreaded torture chambers, but some Iraqis still want him back as president. "I don't know why they are trying Saddam. He is guilty of nothing," said Ahmed Abdallah, a student from Baghdad's Sunni Muslim Adhamiya district, once favored by Saddam. "If it were up to me, I would bring him back as president today, not tomorrow." Downcast but defiant, a thinner Saddam arrived at a courthouse in handcuffs and chains on Thursday to hear the charges against him. The...
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MONACO Jan. 22 — An American male nurse convicted in the arson death of billionaire banker Edmond Safra escaped from prison overnight, police said Wednesday.Ted Maher, originally of Auburn, Maine, was convicted of arson in a 1999 fire in Monaco that also killed one of Safra's other nurses, Vivian Torrente.Copyright 2003 The Associated Press.
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