Can The UN demand to observe the interrogation?

[G_j]

The more sunlight the better. I don't know the legal points of this. I'm not aware that they have been allowed to observe interrogations in the past. Have they requested to? Can WE demand it? Would it be futile?

lots of questions...

[G_j]

1. still hoping someone might have

an answer as to the legal aspects of this. Yes I know Bush could care less about the UN or international law. The UN just making a demand or request might be helpful. I'm hoping that the rest of the scenario plays out in the daylight. A secret interrogation worries me though, for obvious reasons. What if Sadaam has evidence hidden somewhere implicating Rummy and pals as past accomplices?

[Muddleoftheroad]

2. The UN can demand anything

I doubt it will get it.

[ThomWV]

3. What?

Look, as much as I hate the Bush shitballs this really is a different matter.

The first interogations (sp?) will undoubtedly be centered precisely on who he still had working for him, what and where their resources are. This will be done to dismantel whatever network of resistance he controled. That is an absolute certainty.

What will come later may be political in nature, and it might not be too much later either, but not right now. Right now they are looking for matters of military importance.

I am sure the shitballs would love to be able to show, through Sadam's words, that he, and he alone, has been in control of the attacks against our troops. The last thing on this earth they want is for him to say, something like 'no, my people abandoned me except for a few friends who have hidden me' because if he says that then we have to face facts. Those facts would be that we are an occupying force that is now enguaged with liberation fighters. That is contrary to all the US is (in my opnion) and would be a disgrace that even the chief shitball could not hide from.

Thom

[G_j]

4. I was more interested in the legal

points. Barring his untimely death or illness there will be some kind of 'trial'. What comes out under questioning could be considered evidence under our legal system, though 'observers' are not by any means required by law in police questioning. I'm curious to what International law says about the interrogation of accused war criminals. I'm certainly not holding out any hopes for an independant observer. I sincerely doubt that would ever happen.