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Date Posted: Friday, July 22, 11:59:04am
Author: BJ
Subject: Re: UNBELIEVABLE, plus he was our ally at the time, hard to justify our inaction isn't it?
In reply to: Brassman 's message, "UNBELIEVABLE" on Thursday, July 21, 08:43:19pm

>THIS MONSTER BASTARD SHOT WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE
>BACK AND WHINES FOR HIS LAWYER....AMAZING
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>Saddam Complains About Access to Lawyer By BASSEM
>MROUE, Associated Press Writer
>1 hour, 57 minutes ago
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>BAGHDAD, Iraq - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam
>Hussein complained that he has not been allowed
>sufficient access to his lawyer in a new tape aired on
>Thursday by an Arabic satellite television station.
>
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>The footage, broadcast by Dubai-based Al Arabiya,
>showed the ousted leader complaining to Judge Munir
>Haddad about only getting to see his lawyer when he is
>being questioned by investigative judges.
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>"The lawyer only sees his client when there is an
>investigation session. Is this the law?" Saddam asked.
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>Though video showing the former Iraqi leader has been
>released in the past, this was the first time he has
>been seen since the Iraqi Special Tribunal filed its
>first criminal case against him on Sunday.
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>Saddam and three other top officials are accused of
>involvement in the July 1982 massacre of an estimated
>150 Shiites in the town of Dujail, in retaliation for
>a failed assassination attempt on the Sunni leader.
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>The former president, who was captured by U.S. troops
>in December 2003, was expected to be charged with at
>least 13 crimes for which he could face the death
>penalty. No trial date has been set.
>
>In addition to the Dujail massacre, the cases include
>the 1987-88 campaign to drive Iraqi Kurds from wide
>areas of the north and the brutal repression of the
>Shiite revolt in the south after U.S.-led forces drove
>Iraqi invaders from Kuwait in 1991.
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>It was unclear when the film was taken but Saddam is
>shown being questioned about the case of Iraqi Shiite
>Kurds, whose property he confiscated during the early
>1980s. He deported many of them to Iran during
>that time.
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>In the video, Saddam is seen sitting on a chair, and
>at one point, wearing glasses and taking notes. A man
>who appears to be his lawyer sat beside him.
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>Wearing a dark blue suit and a white shirt, Saddam
>complained that when he greeted the judges, he got no
>response.
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>"When someone like me says 'Peace be upon you,' and no
>one responds, then this is a big insult for someone
>like Saddam Hussein," he said.
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>Saddam also said his arrest and detention by the Iraqi
>government was a joke, since the Americans were the
>ones with power.
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>"I am under detention. This is what is being said. It
>is a game," he told the judge, in an apparent
>reference to being held at a U.S. military base.
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>"No. God willing, no," Haddad said.

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