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BUTCHER OF BAGHDAD HIRES INFAMOUS FRENCH ATTORNEY
New York Post ^
| 3/28/04
| ALY SUJO
Posted on 03/28/2004 1:53:48 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:20:26 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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March 28, 2004 -- A cigar-chomping French attorney who has represented a rogue's gallery of Nazis, serial killers and genocidal dictators said yesterday he's taking on a new client for "the trial of the century" - Saddam Hussein.
Jacques Verges, 79, told reporters he got a letter from one of Saddam's nephews telling him he had been chosen to represent the deposed Iraqi dictator.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; iraqijustice; jacquesverges
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posted on
03/28/2004 1:53:49 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
it figures
2
posted on
03/28/2004 2:01:50 AM PST
by
GeronL
(www.armorforcongress.com..... put a FReeper in Congress)
To: GeronL
Its appropriate Saddam should be defended by a Frog.
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posted on
03/28/2004 2:04:27 AM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: kattracks
Jacques Verges, 79, told reporters he got a letter from one of Saddam's nephews telling
him he had been chosen to represent the deposed Iraqi dictator.
Saddam always knew the money in his slush funds from the "Oil For Food" program
would come in handy.
4
posted on
03/28/2004 2:04:31 AM PST
by
VOA
To: kattracks
When will David Bois show up?
To: goldstategop
ribbit, ribbit
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posted on
03/28/2004 2:10:51 AM PST
by
GeronL
(www.armorforcongress.com..... put a FReeper in Congress)
To: kattracks
BTTT.
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posted on
03/28/2004 2:21:43 AM PST
by
lainde
(Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
To: VOA
Saddam always knew the money in his slush funds from the "Oil For Food" program would come in handy. Nah, I'll bet this frenchy is being paid with our taxes.
To: rmmcdaniell
Nah, I'll bet this frenchy is being paid with our taxes.
Dang it, please don't bum me out with the most likely truth! (LOL!)
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posted on
03/28/2004 2:51:51 AM PST
by
VOA
To: goldstategop
Its appropriate Saddam should be defended by a Frog. Especially a Frenchie who is a former Nazi collaborator, er, defender.
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posted on
03/28/2004 3:07:04 AM PST
by
Ophiucus
To: kattracks
He made clear he intends to try to turn the tables on his client's accusers by trying to put U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the stand. Unbelievable.
To: kattracks
Some background (by the way, he appears to be a loser of an attorney):
Jacques Verges
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This page contains many assertions as to the intentions or the agenda of Jacques Vergès.
Jacques Vergès (born March 5, 1925) is a French lawyer noted for defending unpopular figures.
Throughout his career as an attorney, Vergès has primarily taken political cases, and his clients have included both left and right-wing terrorists. He defended the nazi criminal Klaus Barbie (1987), Ilich Ramirez Sanchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal (1994), the Kekal faction (1995), the Holocaust-denier Roger Garaudy (1996) and Slobodan Milosevic (2002).
Born in Thailand and brought up on the Réunion island, he is the son of Raymond Vergès, a French diplomat, and a Vietnamese woman. He joined the Communist party on Reunion and in 1942 he became part of the Free French Forces under Charles de Gaulle. After the war, while his brother Paul was imprisoned for murdering a political rival to their father, Jacques went to the Sorbonne to study law. In 1949 he became president of the AEC (Association for Colonial Students), where he met and befriended Pol Pot. In 1950 at the request of his Communist mentors he went to Prague to lead a youth organization for four years.
Returning to France he became a attorney and took controversial cases. During the struggle in Algiers he defended many accused of terrorism. He also left the French Communist Party following their political move towards the Fourth Republic.
Vergès became a nationally-known figure following his defense of Djamila Bouhired on terrorism charges. She was condemned to death but freed following public pressure and married Vergès. Vergès himself was sentenced to sixty days in 1960 and lost his license to officially practice law for "anti-state activities".
Just out of prison he used his publicity tactics to defend the Jeanson network. It was during a ferocious cross examination that Paul Teitgen, commander of the Algerian police, publicly admitted to the use of torture.
Following Algiers, Vergès moved onto Israel - he saw Israel as a base for neo-imperialism in the Middle East and when the wave of PFLP hijackings started in 1968 Vergès often appeared in court to defend them. Then from 1970-78 he disappeared from public view without explanation. He returned with the same anti-France and anti-Israel agenda as before, defending any terrorists with a political cause, almost all of whom were found guilty. As well as attacking governments, in 1999 Vergès sued Amnesty International on behalf of the government of Togo.
Recently, after the US-led occupation forces invaded Iraq (March 2003), Vergès was asked to represent Tareq Aziz in court. On December 13, 2003, the United States arrested Saddam Hussein (Iraq's President since 1979). Jacques Vergès also offered to defend Saddam if he was asked to. "If I have to choose between defending the wolf or the dog, I choose the wolf, especially when he is bleeding". As of March 27, 2004, M Vergès has been confirmed to defend Hussein.
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:09:58 AM PST
by
angkor
To: kattracks
Thanks for this. These frogs never quit till they need us to protect them. Then they beg us to save them.
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posted on
03/28/2004 4:37:37 AM PST
by
JOE43270
(JOE43270)
To: JOE43270
To: kattracks
It is wrong to be French!
To: Ophiucus
"Especially a Frenchie who is a former Nazi collaborator, er, defender."
Not such a wise statement to make my friend. If you read a bit of history about Klaus Barbie you'd realise that following WW2 we, together with the British, had this dreadful man in our employ for ten years as an advisor against communism.
Jacques Verges on the other hand was a member (admittedly a Commo) of the Free-French Forces, fighting the Nazi.
So much for moral superiority.
To: kattracks
We couldn't make this stuff up if we tried.
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posted on
03/28/2004 5:38:21 AM PST
by
ChadGore
(Mach 5)
To: goldstategop
Who has more to hide: Saddamn of the Frogs?
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posted on
03/28/2004 5:41:26 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: mewzilla
of=or
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posted on
03/28/2004 5:41:43 AM PST
by
mewzilla
To: gortklattu
John Cleese did a perfect portrayal of a Frenchman.Nailed it to a tee.
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