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| Iraq |
| Saddam expects to prove innocence, lawyer says |
| 2005-10-13 |
| And that Powerball jackpot is all mine... Saddam Hussein is reading the Quran and writing poetry in his 12-by-15-foot jail cell as he readies himself for his trial next week. Hope it's as good as "Men and the City". He is in good health with high morale," attorney Khalil al-Dulaimi said in an interview this week. Saddam is confident he can prove his innocence. It was the strawberries! That's where I had them! Saddam believes the insurgency, which includes members of his former regime, will drive Americans from Iraq, al-Dulaimi said. Then I'll be able to wear my Run DMC hat and fire my shotgun again! Saddam and seven co-defendants will be tried on charges of war crimes in front of a five-judge panel for allegedly ordering the killing of 143 people after a failed attempt on Saddam's life in Dujail, a town north of Baghdad. The trial is scheduled to start next Wednesday.Al-Dulaimi hinted at his defense strategy. "Saddam Hussein was on a visit to this village, and he was subject to an assassination attempt," he said. Punishing those who carried it out "is justifiable all over the world. Any president in the position of Saddam would do the same thing." I remember when Gerry Ford had all those people machine gunned after that Squeaky Frome thing. Al-Dulaimi is one of the few people allowed to visit Saddam in a secret prison near Baghdad."If I want to see him, I wait in one of the districts in Baghdad, then they send me a dark-window car and another one as an escort," he said. "So I do not see anything." What's the password? Nope. Try again. Nope. Try again. "Saddam spends most of his time reading the holy Quran, praying, and reading different kinds of books like poetry," al-Dulaimi said. Saddam also is writing poems."He has the right every day in the morning and evening to go in a big hall for 1œ hours, but alone," al-Dulaimi said. "He does not see or mix with any other members of his government." No use taking a chance getting shanked by one of his old buddies trying to get on the new bosses' good side. Saddam's contact with the outside world is limited. He gets one heavily censored Arabic language newspaper, the U.S.-sponsored Al-Sabah. Some articles are cut out with scissors. He gets letters from his family through the Red Cross, but they are also censored. "I have seen one of the letters in which 70% of the letter is omitted. So he receives letters without any meaning," al-Dulaimi said. Saddam's family, in exile, has not been allowed to visit. Uday. Qusay. They never come see me. Bastards! Oh. When did that happen? Saddam doesn't have a television and has no contact with the other members of his regime who also await war crimes trials. Al-Dulaimi, who visited Saddam this week, says Saddam is aware of Saturday's referendum on a constitution. He is allowed to vote but probably won't because he doesn't recognize the legitimacy of political developments since the U.S.-led invasion. Saddam has "great confidence in the Iraqi resistance ... and that the occupation forces will be removed," al-Dulaimi said. Baghdad Bob is probably leading the counterattack as we speak. He said he would. Al-Dulaimi, 41, said he's representing Saddam for free because the family's assets are frozen. There's also no money to mount a proper defense, which would require a full independent review of the evidence, he said. "For sure the trial is unfair," he said. Oh, well. Why waste time. Just hang him and get it over with. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #2 they should hit him with a cattle prod every time he colors outside the lines |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-10-13 20:25 |
| #1 "Punishing those who carried it out is justifiable all over the world." Looks like the ole "Cultural Timebomb" defense. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2005-10-13 19:01 |