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Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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 Monday January 01, 2007 22:44 by Justin Morahan - Peace People (personal capacity)
 Hussein Trial Farcical, Unjust, Kafkaesque, Unbelievable
Rummy's Other Mission Accomplished
Justin Morahan notes the following points in his article on the trial of Saddam Hussein:
The sentence of death on Saddam Hussein in Iraq has been imposed by an illegal court, packed with biased prosecutors and judges who needed United States authorisation before they were ratified, according to a report by Ramsey Clark and Curtis F.J. Doebbler. The authors describe the trial as an attempt to impose victors' injustice on the Iraqi people. The war against Iraq was illegal and "To initiate a war of aggression ... is the supreme international crime" - (Nuremberg Tribunal) • Four defence lawyers were assassinated during the trial (two by alleged US/Iraqi collaboration) In Sept 2005 four prominent statesmen wrote to the Secretary General of the United Nations advising him of the threat to participants in the trial. The warnings were ignored and "several weeks later, two defence lawyers were murdered in a manner evidencing the involvement of the US authorities and the Iraqi authorities who are cooperating with them". In May 2006 a defence witness was killed after his whereabouts were disclosed to the US authorities Two of the Judges had publicly condemned Saddam Hussein before the trial began and were not impartial Unlike the Irish system, in Iraq, the Judge is the evaluator of both law and fact On 12 June 2006, a judge read out in court a series of allegations about the defence lawyers to the effect that they had bribed their own witnesses. The allegations were purportedly made by the defence witnesses who had in the meantime been beaten, arrested and denied access to Counsel of their own choosing by the Iraqi Government with the cooperation of the US authorities. The defence lawyers were threatened with arrest if they challenged the court's actions. This abuse of law, says the report, is contributing to the increased violence in Iraq. http://www.justiceonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=IST Now, from an Irish perspective, (not dealt with in the report), this illegal court was set up as the result of the illegal war of aggression against Iraq. Ireland helped George W Bush in that illegal war by allowing US military planes to re-fuel at Shannon airport and later by allowing known US torture planes to land at the same airport without inspection. The present FF/PD Government is therefore complicit in what passes for "justice" in the special court set up illegally to try Saddam Hussein and also must bear some responsibility for the continuing violence in Iraq When I reject utterly the atrocities carried out by this man in his lifetime, the fact remains that he has been sentenced to hang by an illegal court. Those who have been directly responsible for other atrocities such as the the deaths of 150,000 Iraqis, notably George W Bush and Anthony Blair, have not stood trial for crimes against humanity. Nor have the leaders of the Coalition of the Willing. Nor have the leaders of countries such as Ireland who have given full support to Mr Bush and Mr Blair in their bloody, reckless, cowardly adventure. |
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