"Old Sparky"
Posted on 11/03/2006 11:06:11 AM PST by HAL9000
The lawyers of Saddam will be present at the verdict Sunday
AMMAN - the lawyers of Saddam Hussein will be present Sunday at the High penal court in Baghdad to attend the verdict of the first lawsuit of the deposed Iraqi president, indicated to Friday to AFP the foreman of defense, Khalil Al-Doulaïmi.
With the question of knowing if the team would go to the statement of the verdict, waited Sunday, it answered: "I will go to Baghdad in company of all the members of the team of defense and among them Ramsey Clark, a former American minister for justice".
Me Doulaïmi in addition estimated that "if the court wants to act legally, which seems excluded, it must agree to receive the documents of defense, and which the lawyers can make their pleading".
"It is what the court must do if he wants to comply with the rules in force especially (...) that Iraq saw a civil war and that the doors of the hell are likely to open if an illogical decision is made".
The lawyers of Saddam Hussein having boycotted the end of the audiences, the pleading of defense had been ensured by an officially appointed lawyer.
The committee of defense in addition asked that a new date be fixed for the lawsuit so that it can less present the pleadings within step "than 60 days".
In an official statement made public, the committee estimated that a refusal of the court would mean that the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein "is political and that it takes into account, in its decision, the interests of the occupant and the American elections".
The lawyers of Saddam had boycotted the lawsuit in July to protest against nonthe satisfaction of their requests, in particular a protection of the members of defense, after the assassination of three as of theirs since the beginning of the legal procedure in October 2005.
They had been replaced then by officially appointed lawyers.
The death penalty was necessary against Saddam Hussein for executions of 148 inhabitants Shiites of the village of Doujaïl (60 km in the north of Baghdad) in the months and the years which followed the corrosion of the convoy of the former president, whereas he visited this village in 1982.
During the lawsuit, which proceeded of October 19, 2005 to July 27, 2006, defense tried to call in question the legitimacy of the court and to prove the political character of the procedure.
Me Doulaïmi forms part of 12 principal lawyers who defend Saddam Hussein and her seven co-defendants in the lawsuit of Doujaïl.
They also represent the former president and six co-defendants in another lawsuit, where they are judged to have carried out, in Kurdistan (northern), in 1988, an offensive, called Anfal, which made more than 180.000 died, according to the charge.
Take Kerry with him, and be sure he has dinner in a mess hall with the troops....
Clark should stay over there.
If Kerry goes, he has to take his buddy Harkin (Iowa) with him!
I wonder if they could be persuaded to hang that worthless POS along with Saddam.
Now, there's an idea.
Can we get a 2fer here?
Mybe the Iraquis can do a twofer, and shoot Clark while they're at it
Have the troops drop off Clark and Kerry along a long stretch of highway and let them thumb their way into Baghdad.
Two ropes,no waiting!
"Old Sparky"
Under Sharia Law, don't they behead the losing lawyers?
If not - they should...
Semper Fi
Hang Ramsey Clark, Lynne Stewart, and a slew of other leftist traitors alongside Saddam.
FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES--DEMOCRAT.
Shame that they can't hang him too ....
I think Ramsey Clark ought to plan on flying in to Baghdad to be a human shield for Saddam when he faces his firing squad...
Allegra
Lock and Load.
The only greater justice would be if Saddam were caught in the crossfire with him.
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