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Iraq-Jordan
Saddam’s request for Swedish trial turned down
2005-07-26
STOCKHOLM - Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who faces trial on charges of crimes against humanity, will not be permitted to stand trial or serve his sentence in Sweden, a Swedish official said on Monday. “We have said ‘no’,” justice ministry director Ann Marie Bolin Pennegaard told AFP, referring to a request from one of Hussein’s lawyers for him to either await trial, stand trial or serve his sentence in Sweden.
I don't know who's more out of touch with reality, Saddam or his lawyer ...
No death penalty in Sweden, is there?
Pennegaard on Friday sent the Swedish government’s answer to Hussein’s attorney Giovanni di Stefano.
"In å wÞrd, nÞ..."
“Sweden has no intention of filing a request to the competent authorities in Iraq for a transfer of Saddam Hussein to Sweden before his trial,” Pennegaard wrote in the fax. “Nor has Sweden considered the issue of establishing a seat of the Iraqi Special Tribunal in Sweden. It is also to be noted that there is no possibility under present Swedish legislation ... to let Saddam Hussein serve any possible sentence in a Swedish prison after his trial,” she added.
"Åre yÞu gÃŒys nÃŒts?" he added.
According to a report in Swedish daily Aftonbladet on Monday, Di Stefano is now planning to ask Iraq and the United Nations to file an official request for Sweden to accept Hussein before, during or after the trial. “If Iraq or the UN sends a request to Sweden this could still happen,” he told the paper, insisting that holding a trial in Baghdad would be too dangerous for Hussein.
"He could end up with a three-foot neck! Nobody wants that... Ummm... Well, he doesn't want it, anyway."
“One couldn’t stop an Egyptian ambassador from recently being kidnapped and murdered in Baghdad. And there is a war going on there, and how can one hold a trial when bombs are exploding outside the door?” he asked.
Perhaps Sammy could issue an appeal for his safety ...
“It is no longer just about Saddam Hussein getting a fair trial but also about him getting a safe trial,” Di Stefano insisted. Pennegaard said that for the time being Swedish authorities were unlikely to change their minds. “If completely new information comes to light we will of course have to evaluate this again,” she told AFP.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  Nice to know they care more about tyrants than they do about people from Cuba asking for asylum. The Swedish people may be OK, but the government is evil.
Posted by: Jackal   2005-07-26 10:07  

#2  Tough one to sort for the Swedes. Probably employed an army of attorneys and judges to figure it out. The right to a trial is just that, a right and not the entitlement to an obsessive masturbatory fetish of "justice" in a nation far removed from the scene of the crimes costing millions of euros like the Hague is fond of these days. I like his promise to reconsider it if new information arises. Yes Giovanni, you are still important and pure. Do they provide every sick puppy in this world the same consideration. Why reserve special consideration for a dictator and, for instance, not the average Ahkmed who doesn't have an army of idiotic arab or french attorneys to cry foul to Sweden? Evil fuckwit hypocrit Giovanni wasting taxpayers' earnings on playing international arbitrator of justice. I'm waiting for the king of Lichtenstein to open up his own special royal court of inflated international importance with unlimited jurisdiction over everything and anybody outside the kingdom's 75 or so square miles.
Posted by: MunkarKat   2005-07-26 09:21  

#1  "a trial in Baghdad would be too dangerous for Hussein"

Lol. Sweden. This is an astonishing glimpse of the inner mind of Tranzi-think - wacka-wacka bizarro. Fuckin' Duh, Giovanni, the murderous asshole is going to die. Get it? Die, as in stone cold fucking dead, like his victims, you brainless reality refugee twinkie twit. Sheesh, the baseline presumptions of the touchy-feely folks are simply amazing examples of cognitive dissonance -- sufficient to give a rational person both physical and intellectual whiplash.
Posted by: .com   2005-07-26 02:53  

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