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Saddam will 'die or return to the presidency'
AFP November 1, 2006
BEIRUT -- Saddam Hussein does not fear execution and will either face the death penalty for crimes against humanity or return as president of Iraq, one of his lawyers said in Beirut Wednesday.
"President Saddam Hussein does not fear execution," Lebanese lawyer Bushra Khalil said, four days before an Iraqi court is due to issue a verdict on whether Saddam and seven co-defendants are guilty or innocent.
"He will not leave jail to count his days or years [in exile] in Qatar or some other country," she told a press conference. "Saddam Hussein will leave jail to go to one of two things: either the presidency or the grave."
Khalil warned that a guilty verdict over the killing of 148 Shiite villagers from the Iraqi village of Dujail, executed after a failed 1982 assassination attempt, could plunge Iraq and the region into violence. "Any death sentence will be explosive for Iraq and the region. Any death sentence will be hell for the US Army" in Iraq, she warned.
She did not say what Saddam sympathizers might have up their sleeves in a country already wracked by unprecedented civil violence and with US casualties at their highest in nearly two years.
If Saddam is sentenced to death, the defense team will appeal, said Khalil.
It has drafted a letter to US President George W. Bush warning of dire consequences if Saddam is convicted.
In a copy of the letter, lead Iraqi lawyer Khalil Al Dulaimi also urged Bush to free Saddam and put an end to the trial, which he described again as illegal and a farce.
Saddam himself wrote to the presiding judge, asking that the verdict not be issued as scheduled Sunday, just two days before the US midterm congressional elections. He warned that such a timing would reinforce Bush's Republican party in the elections.
Khalil echoed that, saying that Sunday's date for the verdict was proof that the trial was being used by the Bush administration as "propaganda, especially if there were a death sentence.
"A death sentence against president Saddam Hussein will have an important electoral value, as it will help convince American voters that he [Bush] has achieved his strategic objective by invading Iraq," she said.
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i t hink its dicusting i actually havent got time for the man but honestly hes in a chair for not for him but for fcking bush he shud be there just like tony blair and all the war mongering fcking bastereds who helped sadamn ,he was no more threat than friggen korea is at the moment ,bloody hell it sickens me i cant beleive i hate BUT BUSH I REALLY HATE HIM HE AINT HUMAN AT ALL HE ACTS OUT THE QURAN AND THE BIBLE HES BLOODY MAD WE SHUD HAVE INVADED HIM AND KNOCKED HIM OFF WUDNT THAT BE A GOOD STORY BUSH GOT KNOCKED OFF HIS PERCH U GOT TO ADMIT IT HES RESEMBELING THE EAGLE ISINT HE LATELY ,i dont like what sadam did but its just now happening any way with the others there they are gone doggy dog havent they ...
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quote:Originally posted by BANANA FACE., rolling the weed ...: i t hink its dicusting i actually havent got time for the man but honestly hes in a chair for not for him but for fcking bush he shud be there just like tony blair and all the war mongering fcking bastereds who helped sadamn ,he was no more threat than friggen korea is at the moment ,bloody hell it sickens me i cant beleive i hate BUT BUSH I REALLY HATE HIM HE AINT HUMAN AT ALL HE ACTS OUT THE QURAN AND THE BIBLE HES BLOODY MAD WE SHUD HAVE INVADED HIM AND KNOCKED HIM OFF WUDNT THAT BE A GOOD STORY BUSH GOT KNOCKED OFF HIS PERCH U GOT TO ADMIT IT HES RESEMBELING THE EAGLE ISINT HE LATELY ,i dont like what sadam did but its just now happening any way with the others there they are gone doggy dog havent they ...
F**** Bush
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we have some serious mental illness creeping into the board. Whichever institution Banana escaped from needs to tighten their security. That kind of language is out of place in a civil society.
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quote:Originally posted by ARROW99: we have some serious mental illness creeping into the board. Whichever institution Banana escaped from needs to tighten their security. That kind of language is out of place in a civil society.
Chill Arrow....... Bush isnt God, ok?
This is the Internet for god's sake
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quote:Originally posted by ARROW99: we have some serious mental illness creeping into the board. Whichever institution Banana escaped from needs to tighten their security. That kind of language is out of place in a civil society.
ssssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i did not swear it was me being me the BANANA dont answer me or i will make sure u slip on my skin arrow the marrow
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Well supposedly Iraq was lately put on an alert because they expect Saddams verdict from the tribunal to be a death sentence, which they think will escalate violence there. You've got to love the timing on this: three days before US mid-terms. And death is the only way the US can silence Saddam about the level -and degree -of support the US gave him during the Iran/Iraq war.
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