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Iraq
Probe into SaddamÂ’s Kuwait invasion gains momentum
2006-09-06
BAGHDAD - A legal investigation into the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Saddam HusseinÂ’s Iraq is gaining momentum and the former strongman may face charges for the alleged execution of Kuwaiti prisoners of war. US officials close to the Iraqi High Tribunal trying Saddam on charges related to various alleged atrocities committed during his 24-year rein told AFP that Kuwaiti officials had filed a formal complaint with prosecutors.

In the Kuwaiti complaint, filed earlier this year, Saddam stands accused of “illegally invading the country, killing and torturing its people, destroying its oil wells and other infrastructure.”

“The complaints have been filed and the court has started an investigation,” an American legal expert said, briefing AFP on condition of anonymity because he is not permitted to speak on behalf of the Iraqi body.
Useful probe to have though they can only hang Sammy once.
Posted by:Steve White

#14   If there's anyone who ever deserved the death by a thousand cuts, it's Saddam.
Posted by: Flish Uleregum9913   2006-09-06 21:33  

#13  Jezuz. Just shoot the bastard already.
Posted by: mojo   2006-09-06 17:35  

#12  His two sons shot it out and lost with the US Army. Hope he joins them in hell real soon.
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-09-06 17:04  

#11  The court's decision: Death by boredom!

I vote for taking care of this guy the old fashioned way. Little wasted effort and expense, and people can start focusing on the future right away! There are some people who deserve to be killed outright. This guy is one of them. I don't think there is much he will tell us, but we know he did lots of bad stuff. Far beyond the usual bad stuff someone in his position "needs" to do. Be gone and good riddance. Don't forget to peek through the pearly gates on the way by so you'll know what you're not gettin' when you head off to "receive" your eternal reward, Mme Hussein!
Posted by: gorb   2006-09-06 17:02  

#10  I have to side with trailing wife on the intended impact in and beyond Iraq. With the delusional state of most Arabs here and elsewhere you sometimes wonder whether any teaching is possible, but I think there is evidence that some are absorbing some lessons, even if unconsciously.

Given the timetable, Sammy's availability for a Kuwait trial is dubious. Even if he doesn't get a death sentence for Dujayl, it's hard to imagine any other outcome for Anfal. Kuwait would have to be next up, and the 1991 intefadeh case has more political traction here (of course) than Kuwait.

As for slant-drilling, I doubt it. Recall the brutal Kuwaiti-Iraqi oil meeting in summer '90 was about oil prices - anything else was probably the crudest of pretexts for the Iraqi barbarians.
Posted by: Verlaine in Iraq   2006-09-06 11:11  

#9  I'm gonna have to agree with PBMcL. They should have put a bullet in his head the second they dug him out of his hole. Not just because he 'might escape the noose', but because his very existence is one of the reasons the insurgency has gone on this long. His immediate and summary execution would have saved hundreds and maybe thousands of American lives.

Of course, I'd prefer a noose to a bullet, but dead is dead.
Posted by: mcsegeek1   2006-09-06 11:01  

#8  Sometimes our work has unintended consequences.
Posted by: Halliburton Earthquake Division   2006-09-06 06:12  

#7  Some say our good friends at Halliburton had a drill rig off the coast and they weren't going straight down. Who knows ?
Posted by: SOP35/Rat   2006-09-06 02:29  

#6  Let's juz take the top two atrocities are hang him already.
Posted by: Captain America   2006-09-06 02:10  

#5  If they were drilling it would be, 3dc. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-09-06 01:55  

#4  That was Saddam's argument. Mizzou M.
I have never heard a Kuwaiti denial - or acceptence of the charge. Just no answer as it was below them.

So who knows...
Posted by: 3dc   2006-09-06 01:43  

#3  I have to disagree, TW. As long as he's breathing I worry that he'll escape the noose. IMHO it was a huge mistake to take him alive. The sooner he takes that 'short drop, sudden stop,' the better.
Posted by: PBMcL   2006-09-06 01:43  

#2  Might be BS, might not. But while talking to a young Marine who had been stationed at one time at the Kuwait embassy told me that the Kuwaitis had started to secretly drill horizontally across the border into Iraq, which help precipitate the invasion. Anybody ever hear this before?
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2006-09-06 01:24  

#1  One of those teaching moment thingies showing the semi-free world how that rule of law thingy works. Take as long as you need, Iraq -- you've got the rest of Saddam Hussein's life to do it right.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-09-06 01:17  

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