Iraqi Court Drops Charges Against Saddam Which Would Have Implicated Reagan/Bush

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Iraqi Court Drops Charges Against Saddam Which Would Have Implicated Reagan/Bush Involvement

MSNBC: Defendants have said Anfal was a legitimate military operation targeting Kurdish guerrillas who had sided with Shiite Iran during the last stages of the Iraq-Iran war.

Saddam charges dropped

ANFAL PLAN

Judge Mohammed al-Ureybi, in his first order of business, formally dropped charges of genocide and crimes against humanity against Saddam. He cut off the microphones when Majeed stood up and started to read the Koran in tribute to his former chief.

“In virtue of the confirmation of the death of defendant Saddam Hussein, the court decided to finally stop legal procedures against defendant Saddam Hussein according to the Iraqi Penal Procedures Law,” Ureybi told the court.

more at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16522265/

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Was Saddam silenced so that he could not implicate the Reagan & Bush Administrations for their assistance In these war crimes against humanity?

What were the charges that the -Americans Iraqi Court wanted dropped?

"charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity stemming from a military campaign code-named Operation Anfal during the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war..."

Washington’s complicity in Hussein’s crimes

President Bush is fond of citing the Anfal campaign and accusing Hussein of “gassing his own people,” but the chief international backer of the Baathist regime in the 1980s was the US itself. If Hussein and his lieutenants are to be put on trial for the murder of Kurds then standing alongside them in the dock should be the surviving members of the Reagan administration, including Bush’s own father, who was Reagan’s vice-president, and the present defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was Reagan’s special envoy to Iraq in 1983-84. Moreover, the secret archives of the CIA, Pentagon and State Department should be opened up to reveal the true extent of Washington’s complicity in all of Hussein’s crimes.

more at:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/apr2006/iraq-a10.shtml

[MADem]

1. Not being an expert on "new Iraqi" law....

I thought all charges against him were dropped....because they killed him.

It's like Ken Lay...you're off the hook, but only if you are dead.

[woodsprite]

2. Ok, so he doesn't want to "avenge" his daddy - instead, he's playing

mafia "hit man" for him.