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  • Defiant Saddam Rejects War Crimes Charges

    07/01/2004 5:58:01 AM PDT · by TexKat · 81 replies · 1,281+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 7/1/04 | HAMZA HENDAWI
    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...