Little taste for legal niceties in the matter of Saddam

[Tinoire]

By Paul McGeough, Herald Correspondent in Baghdad
December 17, 2003

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The Americans, who declared Saddam to be a prisoner of war after his capture on Saturday, pointedly refuse to commit explicitly to how he should be dealt with - President George Bush says the US will "work" with Baghdad and "Iraqis should be involved".

But Washington officials also say the US reserves the right to lay its own charges against Saddam for crimes against it, while the countries attacked by his regime - Iran, Kuwait and Israel - are demanding a say in his trial.

Saddam is being held under tight US security at Baghdad airport. US specialists have started what they say will be a months-long interrogation.

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Iraqi experts have stated a preference for laying perhaps a dozen charges against Saddam. These would centre on the Anfal campaign, during which the Iraqi army used chemical weapons against Kurdish villages in 1988, his decision to drain marshes in southern Iraq to flush out antigovernment guerillas in 1991 and his wars against Iran and Kuwait.

US authorities in Baghdad say they have amassed Iraqi secret police and military dossiers stretching along 13 kilometres of shelves that are thought to contain evidence that could be used to try Saddam and his officials.

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/16/1071336963892.html

[Fovea]

1. If it looks at all like the Shiites are going to wind up trying him

It could put America in a defacto state of war with any Sunni nation
at least in the Middle East.

The worst would be to hand him over to Iran. The next worse would be a Sunni state like S.A.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Dumm Canuk Question - What exactly DID Saddam do to the USA ??

. . I musta missed something ?

Feckadee - ain't the USA got enuf on it's plate ??

Give Saddam to the Iraqis, THEY are the people he has violated the most, and he IS their citizen ?

Iraqis or the International Court or Tribunal

Didn't Georgie Boy fry enough people in Texas already ??

I'm beginning to think that "guns" for Junior replace, well,

you know what . .

[kayell]

3. Guns and death replace sex for *?

It wouldn't be to surprising, given his long use of alcohol and unknown length of use of cocaine. Both have very negative effects on a males ability to perform.

If anyone other than the pResident of the US was behaving like * does, displaying the same callous and vicious behavior towards other people, the obvious lying, the irrational behaviour, the unintelligable speech, etc. on the job, their employer would insist that they make use of the Employee Assistance Program to receive some serious psychological help. And remove them from any duties where they could do damage to other people.

To answer your first question, Saddam is alleged to have tried to have Poppy killed. Obviously that was an attack on the BFEE, which is now synonymous with the US.

My desire is for International Court. There is no way that any Iraqi court for the forseeable future won't be under the obvious control of the US, and so no verdict they come up with will be seen as legitimate, especially after Emperor * has made his wishes so clear.