Daughter calls for international trial (Saddam)

[Say_What]

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· Saddam 'appeared drugged in detention'
· Capture sparks widespread attacks & protests
· 11 Iraqis dead in Samarra firefight

Agencies
Tuesday December 16, 2003

Saddam Hussein's daughter today called for an international trial for her father, as the US military announced 11 Iraqi gunmen had been killed during an attack in Samarra.

Raghad Saddam Hussein said she and her sisters did not want her father to be tried by an Iraqi court.

"He should not be tried by the governing council which was put in place by occupiers ... we want an international, fair and legal trial," she told the Dubai-based Al Arabiya television network.

In a telephone interview from Jordan, she said that her father had appeared drugged in TV pictures of his arrest by US soldiers on Saturday. Her family would be appointing a lawyer to defend him, she added.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1108190,00.html

[Rex]

1. He should get a fair trial

nt

[Heddi]

2. you're right. He should

But "should" and "Will" are two very different concepts.

He SHOULD get a fair trial, but I doubt he WILL

[Say_What]

3. Aljazeera: Saddam's family wants international trial

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.. Saddam is now in American military custody in an undisclosed location inside Iraq where he is being interrogated.

French lawyer Jacques Verges, famous for representing Gestapo leader Klaus Barbie and international guerrilla Carlos the Jackal, said on Monday that Saddam must be presumed innocent at any trial.

Verges added that hiding him away was against international conventions.

In Turkey, a lawyer from the western city of Izmir applied on Tuesday to be allowed to defend the former Iraqi president.

In his petition to the Iraqi authorities, Atinc Gultekin accused the US of trying to turn "Saddam's trial into a show of power".

<http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DF1DD10A-B7B9-4F07-BF36-39AEC9AFE7E7.htm>

[rocktivity]

4. Now we'll find out much "moral clarity" Georgie REALLY has

Surely he even he can see that a trial controlled by Iraq or the U.S. would be tainted by a lack of objectivity, to put it politely. Only an international and public trial can give this case any kind of credibility. And if Georgie has nothing to hide, what has he to fear?


rocknation

[Muddleoftheroad]

5. I bet

I imagine the Iraqis have a different view and wish to try him themselves.