"Whoa. Tough crowd."
Posted on 11/16/2005 9:59:35 AM PST by jmc1969
Saddam Hussein was beaten up during questioning after he made an obscene remark about Shia Muslims, a source close to the investigation has claimed.
The former dictator is being questioned by investigative judges before his trial resumes on November 28.
An Iraqi lawyer briefed by investigative judges in the Iraqi High Tribunal said Saddam had made the obscene remark when asked about attacks by Iraqi forces on the shrines of imams Hussein and Abbas in Karbala in 1991.
Two of the court's clerks stopped taking notes and attacked Saddam, pummeling him with blows.
The source claimed Saddam's American guards were amused by the incident and did not intervene.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
what gives....?
"They're doing their darnest to get the trial moved out of Iraq, ain't they?"
i think you are correct.
They want the trial in the Hague (Holland),where Carla De Ponte and other lefties can find him NOT GUILTY.
MILOSEVIC, who defended his people against muslims, is in the Hague where Carla De Ponte and her minions can't wait to have him jailed for life.
k.
works for me
Is this for REAL, I need to know what kind of laughing I am experiencing.
"Stay clea of Saddam tigah hand. He worthy opponent, grasshoppa"
Where is Jimmy Carter when Saddam needs him?
As they say on Seinfeld, "That's a shame."
Looks like Saddam's supporters have their panties all in a wad.... Where were they when Saddam was in charge???? The silence is deafening......
Did they put him in the chipper???? Did they put him in the chipper????
Feel good story of the day!
"This "news" item is manufactured for the purpose of inciting religious and sectarian violence"
So who owns/directs the Telegraph? Reuters?! Or maybe the same idjits who own The Guardian?
Just a few backhanded Bhagdad Bitch Slaps, perhaps? I say we all apologize to him and the country, announce that he is being released, and tell all of Iraq exactly when and where that will happen. Locally, of course.
Mapes is woking for the telegraph now?
...and of course the sourse claims that he was beaten by clerks who had stopped taking notes in order to explain why there is no corroboration for the story.
"The source claimed Saddam's American guards were amused by the incident and did not intervene."
sounds like something AP or Rueters would say
The Telegraph itself doesn't pass the smell test. That rag stinks to high Heaven
But with Saddam, it makes for a very small target.
Possible, but it seems to me there would be plenty of people present to intervene. Highly unlikely Americans charged with guarding Sadaam would be "amused" unless the incident was of no consequence and no threat of harm to Sadaam existed.
"Whoa. Tough crowd."
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