Regards, Ivan
Posted on 07/09/2004 1:32:14 AM PDT by MadIvan
ISLAMIC militants yesterday issued a videotape threatening to behead any lawyers defending the deposed Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein.
The tape, passed to the international news agency Reuters, claimed to be from a previously unknown group calling itself Saif al-Allah, the Sword of God.
The video showed masked militants brandishing assault rifles and grenade launchers.
One gunman read a statement warning "all those who defend the criminal file of the cowardly criminal Saddam ... that we will sever your necks before you arrive".
The gunman said the warning was for "the Iraqi, Arab and foreign lawyers who have taken on the case of the criminal Saddam".
A defiant Saddam and 11 of his lieutenants, ousted by United States-led forces in April last year, stood before an Iraqi tribunal last Thursday to face charges that could lead to an indictment for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
His Jordan-based defence team abandoned a proposed visit to Baghdad to show support for the jailed former president on Wednesday after members received death threats.
A team of at least 21 mainly Arab lawyers granted power of attorney by Saddam’s wife, Sajida Khairallah, have voiced fears about their personal safety in Iraq.
"We are getting one threat after the other," the team’s co-ordinator, Mohammed Rashdan, said on Wednesday.
The defence team said that among the large contingent of lawyers ready to defend Saddam are 700 non-Arabs, including 400 Americans and Europeans.
Many lawyers say the trial is a vendetta by Saddam’s political foes and only an international court would guarantee an impartial and fair hearing.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
"the first thing we do, is kill all the lawyers...where's my machete?"
Don't be sorry.It deserves all the smiles it's getting.
DICK
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.CADE
Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings: but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since.
Quite.
Regards, Ivan
MadIvan where were you??
Oh and I was gone for 2 months too. =o)
Lying down with dogs ... here come the fleas.
BTTT
*BUMP*
Nobody, not nobody likes a lawyer.
You employed a double negative. Ergo your post really means, "Everbody likes a lawyer" or, perhaps, "Everybody likes one lawyer." Nicht wahr?
Could this be the beginning evidence of what has been hinted at before? John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Some have doubts that the Iraqis will ever be able to fully understand what freedom means. Will this new government eventually become powerful, greedy and just as ruthless as Sadam was? Can they ever understand that even the guilty deserve a fair trial before execution?
MadIvan.... by-the-way...good to see you back!
"John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".
Well we have the dim-o-Rats, and we have managed to survive. It's a fight, but it's one well worth winning!
LLS
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Nobody? How about these two lawyers?
Ulysses got you good with that 'Nobody' schtick, eh!
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1 Corinthians 13
Love
1If I speak in the tongues[1] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[2] but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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