Release Saddam say Jordan lawyers

[0007]

Thursday 15 January 2004, 20:37 Makka Time, 17:37 GMT

The Jordan Bar Association (JBA) is demanding former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein be released from detention and that US and UK occupiers face war crimes charges.

In a Wednesday letter to the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the JBA said the invasion of Iraq without UN approval put the US and UK on the wrong side of international law.

"The officials of the invasion forces, regardless of rank, are considered war criminals and their crime is considered an act of international terrorism," said the letter calling for them to be tracked down, arrested and tried.

"It is the right and duty of the Iraqi forces, people and leader to resist and arrest the invasion forces, and their actions would be considered legitimate and embody a legitimate defence of self and country."

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2558F329-6E8B-4BF9-BF62-0B4E2A2E69D3.htm

[jpgray]

1. Them's the rules

But don't expect folks here to cotton to the idea. Laws have a great ring to them for most people, so long as they can ignore them anytime you want.

[0007]

3. Your super fast reader or I'm super slow one, LOL!!

I do find it interesting that Jordan, a US friend, is coming up with this order. Maybe the U.S. should give Jordan, Ahmed Chalabi to shut Jordan up, 'eh?

[ramapo]

2. Yeah right

Well I'd be resisting invaders. Somehow I think the Jordanian demand will fall upon deaf ears.

[0007]

4. Yes, but it will still be a burr up someone's ass.

[Mikimouse]

5. This is potentially a brilliant move on their part...

because though the US and UK will not respond to it, the proposal has been publicized, and the Iraqi people will have heard it as well. I'll be very curious to see what, if anything, changes in the next few weeks. We may find that Mr. Hussein was not as universally hated as we have made him out to be. Just a thought.

[auburnblu]

10. No question Hussain was loved

By those elites in the country who benefited from him being in charge, oh I'm sure they did love him. I sure hope you don't run around screaming economic justice, economic justice, I want economic justice, because that's the last thing Saddam wanted for anyone who did not obay his command.

I'm sure members of the Stalin was admired by other members of the Kremlin, but does that make him a good guy.

[Mikimouse]

11. Ummm, 'scuse me...

What exactly is your point, if you don't mind my asking? I might suggest to you examine the historical context in which this is being played out. While Hussein was in power, the various factions that would have been happy to tear each other apart, were kept at bay. Now, they are as close to civil war as they are likely to get without actually being there. One must wonder, if one has sufficient curiosity, how it happens that the newly 'liberated' Iraqis are seemingly so unhappy with their 'liberators'.

[0007]

12. A positive one?

"Responding to a question about whether they received a no-objection letter from US authorities to visit Saddam Hussein, Doumani added: "we sent a letter to the US officials asking that, but we have not received the answer yet. I am sure the answer will be a positive one, but it is a matter of time".

[Muddleoftheroad]

14. We'll find that out

When the Iraqis hold a trial for the SOB and then execute him.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Something tells me that these lawyers may need a lawyer soon? n/t

[daleo]

7. Nice try

But the BFEE will just ignore them and/or call them terrorist lovers. Might make the poodle's collar feel just a touch tighter though - there is some indication that the British public take this sort of thing at least a tiny bit seriously.

[Muddleoftheroad]

8. LOL

What a realistic demand...

[auburnblu]

9. I agree release him now

And when he is released, do not under any circumstances give the Iraqi police time to arrest him, all of those bodies found in mass graves, clearly the work of Kuwait, that's why he ordered the liberation of Kuwait to make them pay for so many Iraqis ending up in mass graves.

And every dime found in Iraq recently should be given to him. Clearly as an elite person he deserves this, poor Teresa Kerry only has five houses, heck Saddam has 50, talk about a great guy. He is a person to be admired, during sanctions, he had the foresight to continue to build great palaces in his honor, this guy is great. No wonder so many Iraqis love him, and the bad things that people say about him who claim he killed their uncle or something, well they are just jealous of his greatness.


Do you idioits that want him freed not think even if the U.S. lets him go that there is not sufficient evidence against him that he shouldn't be held for crimes against citizens of Iraq?

[xchrom]

13. and let's jail bush for the thousands

of innocent dead who would never have been killed by saddam or anyone else for this inglorious war.
there were ways to remove saddam that didn't involve filling a few dozen graveyards -- that's the american and brit crime -- we -- are not better than him.