Posted on 11/04/2006 7:51:17 PM PST by silentknight
Iraq urges calm ahead of Saddam verdict
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer 38 minutes ago
SNIP
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister on Saturday urged his countrymen to accept the impending verdict against Saddam Hussein without violence, then in the next breath declared the former dictator must get "what he deserves" with the decision that could send him to the gallows.
My dentist told me to get that!!!!
Is it good? Does it work?
The loony left will blame Bush
Checking in.. for the verdict.
Snicker! Well, I can't go look at it yet cos it'll defeat the whole purpose of having the:
SOB's --- I am GLAD they were killed.
Love your pictures! Now we know where Looter Guy is! Too funny. BE SAFE!
Stay safe .. and hoping the POS Saddam is found guilty
Blame Bush for a guilty verdict? Hahahahahaha. One can hope.
Nothing yet --- you're on time.
The pundits speculating on whether he will swing from a rope or get the firing squad. How long the appeals will last, and how many more trials will be allowed or demanded. Closure may never come for all of the crimes. His death is the only certain closure, IMHO.
Baghdad, died city, while waiting for the verdict of the lawsuit of Saddam
BAGHDAD - the streets of the Iraqi capital, cut world, were deserted Sunday morning, without pedestrians nor motor vehicle traffic, pursuant to the exceptional curfew issued in forecast of the verdict of the former strong man of Iraq, which incurs the death penalty.
Saddam Hussein and seven former leaders are continued for the massacre of 148 villagers Shiites of Doujaïl killed in reprisals after an attack missed against the former president in 1982.
The bridges crossing the Tiger, which know a strong multitude permanently, are crossed only by rare patrols of police force, the thunder claps replace the deaf noises of the explosions.
Before the verdict envisaged starting from 10H00 (07H00 GMT) by the High Iraqi penal court, sitting in the district strengthened from the green zone in Baghdad, the government founded the curfew in the capital and two provinces, put the army in state of alert and closed the international airport "until new order".
"We want to make sure that the safety of the Iraqi people is not threatened by the partisans of Saddam Sunday, historical day", explained to AFP Bassam Ridha, adviser of the Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki.
During the lawsuit which proceeded of October 19, 2005 to July 27, 2006, the death penalty was necessary against Saddam Hussein, 69 years, its half-brother, Barzan Al-Tikriti, former owner of the information at the time of the facts, and the former vice-president, Taha Yassin Ramadan.
Five others shown, among which Awad Ahmed Al-Bandar, a former judge who chaired the revolutionary tribunal in the business of Doujaïl are judged in this business.
"the death sentence of Saddam Hussein will put Iraq at fire and blood and will carry out the area towards the unknown", warned last Sunday the chief of the committee of defense of Saddam Hussein, Khalil Al-Doulaïmi, in a letter addressed to American president George W. Bush, requiring the handing-over in freedom of the former dictator.
Saddam Hussein, first Arab Head of State to being judged in her country for crimes committed against her people, rejected the legitimacy of the court and refused to plead guilty or not guilty at the end of the lawsuit. The others marked were proclaimed innocent.
The awaited advertisement of the verdict, at two days of the American parliamentary elections of November 7 which are announced perilous for the party of president George W. Bush, irritated its lawyers.
"the strong probability that death sentences will involve a larger violence and irreconcilable divisions in Iraq shows that the Bush administration is worried more of the elections of November than of the life of the American soldiers, the Iraqis and the state of right", denounced one of lawyers of the deposed president, the American Ramsey Clark.
In the event of death sentence or with a sorrow of imprisonment to life, the statutes of the court envisage an automatic procedure of appeal.
Saddam Hussein is also judged since August 21 to have ordered in Kurdistan (northern), in 1988, an offensive, called Anfal, which made more than 180.000 died, according to the charge.
ya great tag line allegra.
Stay safe. thanks for the inside info..
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I agree --- hang him, shoot him, behead him -- just kill him.
Hell Ya!
Great! I will go shopping tomorrow!
THANK YOU!
WOW ... calling in extra air support?
"I agree --- hang him, shoot him, behead him -- just kill him."
How I wish they would televise it here.
You really can't beat it. It is an international "close-kit" community. I wouldn't be up AND still enjoying myslef right now, save FRee Republic.
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