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<p>Even Saddam Hussein has legal options.</p> <p>The deposed Iraqi leader could harken back to the trials of Nazi leaders and Japanese commanders after World War II to fight expected charges of genocide and war crimes, claiming he never personally killed anyone or that he had no control over atrocities committed in his name, U.S. defense lawyers and scholars say.</p>

It was announced today that 600 Jordanian Lawyers have volunteered to defend Saddam Hussain. So it is SH that needs defending, the poor guy. These people know more than anybody else the crimes and atrocities and the damage, which this maniac has caused. They know that much better than any westerner. They know more than anybody else about the mass graves, the torture and mayhem. They know, and they don’t care. In fact they seem to sympathize with what has been done to the Iraqi people. What can we say? Iraqis will not easily forget this. Sympathizers of the most...

AMMAN: More than 600 lawyers have signed up to defend captive Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the head of Jordan's Bar Association told the Jordan Times newspaper yesterday. Hussein Mjalli said the volunteers had signed up at the association's offices in Amman and that 600 lawyers indicated their readiness to be part of a defence team for the former president of Iraq. "The intention is to form a higher committee for the defence of Saddam, one which will include legal experts from all over the world," Mjalli said. The general secretariat of the Arab Lawyers' Union was, meanwhile, due to meet...

Saddam Hussein prepares his defense speech. He sits in the high-security cell, surrounded by American soldiers. All his palaces are gone, his sons dead; his regime is in ruins, his country under the control of his worst enemy. The mass graves that he filled have been opened. He has killed his people directly and through the wars that he began. He has thrown the riches from their oil into the sea. And finally, when put to the ultimate personal test, he surrendered rather than die a martyr's death. Is that any reason for him to feel that he was wrong,...

AMMAN, Jordan - Jordanian and French attorneys want to visit Saddam Hussein in captivity so they can offer to represent him before an Iraqi war crimes tribunal, the Jordanian lawyer said Monday. Saleh Armouti and French attorney Emmanuel Ludot are asking the U.S. State Department for permission to visit Saddam, who is being held by the American military at an undisclosed location in Iraq after his Dec. 13 capture. "As soon as we get the authorization from the State Department we shall travel to Iraq and meet with Saddam Hussein to get an official empowerment from him," Armouti told The...

<p>Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Friday that he would be willing to provide legal counsel to Saddam Hussein if the ousted Iraqi leader requested Clark's assistance.</p> <p>"I would seek to help him protect his rights if he needed my help and I felt that there was no one who's willing who could do it better," Clark said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I would have no hesitation. That's my work. That's my chosen pursuit — to protect rights. His rights need protecting."</p>

Controversial French lawyer Jacques Verges says he is willing to defend Saddam Hussein in court and, if he can, bring world leaders to the witness stand, in what could be a huge embarrassment for the United States, France and other countries. Verges spoke to AFP yesterday at the end of a visit to Amman to visit the family of former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz to prepare for his defence following his surrender to US troops after the fall of Baghdad. Asked if he was also ready to defend the former Iraqi leader, who was captured last Saturday night...

French lawyer defending Aziz says he's willing to defend Saddam Last Updated Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:26:38 PARIS - A French lawyer who's made a name for himself by defending controversial suspects including "Carlos the Jackal" and Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, will help defend Iraq's former deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz. Jacques Verges flew to Jordan on Wednesday, to prepare the defence of Aziz, a former aide to Saddam Hussein. Aziz has been in U.S. custody since surrendering to American forces after Saddam was ousted from power in April. Verges has said he'd be willing to defend Saddam, but...

French, U.S. lawyers offer to defend Saddam in trial as daughter says family seeks fair and legal trial Captured former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein already has at least two lawyers who are prepared to defend him. For one, a French defense lawyer, also known as the "devil's advocate" said Monday he would be prepared to defend Saddam Hussein and that the former president must be presumed innocent at any trial. Jacques Verges, a former French Resistance fighter who later campaigned against colonialism, has represented Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Carlos the Jackal in the past. Verges said hiding Saddam...

CAIRO, December 15 (IslamOnline.net) – Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsy Clarke expressed readiness Sunday, December 14, to act as defense lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, with western analysts suspecting the captured leader would be given fair trial. "Certainly, why not. I am ready to act in his defense," Clarke told IslamOnline.net shortly after the U.S. confirmed the detention of Saddam near Tikrit. Clarke, currently in Cairo to attend a two-day international anti-occupation conference, stressed that Saddam – however brutal – should be give a "fair, objective and impartial trial". "Saddam must be domestically prosecuted first and - if...

PARIS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - A French lawyer known for his notorious clients said on Monday he would be ready to defend Saddam Hussein and that the former Iraqi leader must be presumed innocent at any trial. Jacques Verges, who has represented Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and international guerrilla Carlos the Jackal, said hiding Saddam away was against international conventions. U.S. troops captured the deposed leader on Saturday, but his whereabouts remain a mystery. "If he had to be prosecuted tomorrow, he would have to be presumed innocent," Verges told French radio station Europe 1, adding that Saddam should...