World leaders should take stand in Saddam trial: lawyer

[Ediacara]

World leaders should take stand in Saddam trial: lawyer

December 20, 2003


French lawyer Jacques Verges is willing to defend Saddam Hussein.

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 by US troops in northern Iraq, Verges said: "If other people seek my counsel I would have no reason to refuse".

More at the Sydney Morning Herald

[MasonJar]

1. That would be awesome.

Can you see Bush as a witness? First he'd have to really be in Iraq. Secondly he would have to speak without a script running on a monitor. The mind boggles at such a prospect.