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| US attorney-general joins Saddam |
| 2004-12-29 |
| FORMER US attorney general Ramsey Clark is to join the defence team of Saddam Hussein, a spokesman for the toppled Iraqi president's lawyers said today. Mr Clark, who held the office of attorney general under US president Lyndon B. Johnson, "is one of the members of the defence team of president Saddam Hussein," Ziad Khassawneh said. "This honours and inspires us." The former top US justice official who arrived in Jordan where the defence team is based, has become known as a left-wing lawyer and firm critic of US foreign policy since leaving office. He visited Saddam in Baghdad in February 2003 just before the US-lead invasion and has also been involved with the defence of former Yugoslav leader Solbodan Milosevic, on trial for war crimes at a UN court in The Hague. Mr Clark told reporters in the Jordanian capital that his principle concern was protecting the rights of Saddam, who saw a lawyer for the first time this month, a year after his capture. "In international law, anyone accused of crime has the right to be tried by a confident, independent and impartial court, and there can be no fair trail without those qualities," he said. "The special court in Iraq was created by the Iraqi governing council, which is nothing more than a creation of the US military occupation and has no authority in law as a criminal court." The Iraq Special Tribunal was established by the US-led coalition last December to try members of the former regime of Saddam. Mr Clark also said the US itself must be tried for the November assault on Fallujah, destruction of houses, torture in prisons and its role in the deaths of thousands of Iraqis in the war. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 From the title I thought it was Ashcroft. [wag] |
| Posted by: jackal 2004-12-29 9:05:07 PM |
| #7 FORMER US attorney general Ramsey Clark is to join the defence team of Saddam Hussein, a spokesman for the toppled Iraqi president's lawyers said today. Some people have NO shame. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-29 3:26:24 PM |
| #6 ....not that it'll do him any good: (Screenshot from my crystal ball) |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-29 1:02:53 PM |
| #5 AC, nah.....not when he's going overboard helping the other side! |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2004-12-29 11:43:47 AM |
| #4 Clark was AG, essentially J. Edgar Hoover's boss, at the time of the Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy assassinations in 1968. LLL conspiracy theorists have accused practically everyone who was in government then of complicity in the murders. They have even accused Richard Nixon, who was still a private citizen in 1968. The only office holder they haven't accused, oddly enough, is the one who by all rights should be conspiracy-suspect number one, Clark himself. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-29 11:12:11 AM |
| #3 Forever I'll rememeber him now as Saddam's Lawyer. Please show cartoon with the lawyer and the vulture's shadow. Thanks |
| Posted by: Chorong Slaque1397 2004-12-29 11:11:39 AM |
| #2 Not if he's anti-US. |
| Posted by: true nuff 2004-12-29 9:15:40 AM |
| #1 Is there a genocidal idiot on this planet that he won't defend? |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2004-12-29 9:12:28 AM |