Saddam Trial 'Within Two Months'

[The Roswell Man]

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has said he expects the trial of Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes against humanity to begin within two months.

"The Iraqi government is now doing its best to prepare the ground for a court... to decide... Saddam Hussein's future," he told CNN.

The former leader is being held by US troops at a secret location in Iraq as he awaits trial.

A special tribunal set up in 2003 has been amassing evidence against him.

He has been charged with the deaths of thousands of Iraqi Shias and Kurds during his 1968-2003 rule.

He was captured by US forces near his home town of Tikrit in central Iraq in late 2003.

Leading Iraqi politicians have said in the past that Saddam Hussein's trial could start within months.

But Iraqi prosecutors and their US aides have said a trial is more likely in 2006, after several of the former leader's key loyalists are tried first.

It is thought the cases of the former president's henchmen will help the case against him.

Mr Talabani also told CNN it was possible that chemical and biological weapons could still be found in Iraq.

source http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4596745.stm

[Guest Lottie]

Saddam Hussein is being held at an undisclosed location in Iraq.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has said he expects the trial of Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes against humanity to begin within two months.

"The Iraqi government is now doing its best to prepare the ground for a court... to decide... Saddam Hussein's future," he told CNN.

The former leader is being held by US troops at a secret location in Iraq as he awaits trial.

A special tribunal set up in 2003 has been amassing evidence against him.

He has been charged with the deaths of thousands of Iraqi Shias and Kurds during his 1968-2003 rule.

He was captured by US forces near his home town of Tikrit in central Iraq in late 2003.

Leading Iraqi politicians have said in the past that Saddam Hussein's trial could start within months.

But Iraqi prosecutors and their US aides have said a trial is more likely in 2006, after several of the former leader's key loyalists are tried first.

It is thought the cases of the former president's henchmen will help the case against him.

Mr Talabani also told CNN it was possible that chemical and biological weapons could still be found in Iraq.

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"The Iraqi government is now doing its best to prepare the ground for a court... to decide... Saddam Hussein's future," he told CNN.

This man shouldn't have a future.

[zephyr]

I hope he stays alive by then and that his trial will be a public one with no secret deals made in advance aimed at protecting people with dubious past dealings with him.

While his own personal future is unimportant and not many people really care about what might be in reserves for him, his public trial can have huge influences on the future of Iraq, the ME, and the rest of the world, especially from a human rights perspective and the unchecked sales of arms by industrialized nations to brutal dictators and confirmed lunatics.

[warden]

It would be good to see him get a fair trial ,even though we all know exactly what kind of man he was

It would be also interesting to find out about all the dealings he had with governments from all around the world,the same countries that wanted him dead and couldnt wait to invade his country,i wonder if we will get to hear the truth

[girty1600]

I hope they don't hang him; I think he should suffer every day for the rest of his life and let him die of natural causes....

Edit; for my horrid spelling......

Edited June 1, 2005 by girty1600

[warden]

I hope they don't hang him; I thing he should suffer every day for the rest of his life and let him die of natural causes....

650416[/snapback]

True and hears hoping he lives to 126yrs,oh what a long time to suffer

[The Roswell Man]

hey lottie, i had one here already

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...showtopic=41969

great minds eh??

[ForRizzle]

Well i thought I would throw up a short list of his crimes.. The real list is much larger. And my favorite one didnt even make the list (when Saddam made the Iraqi soccer team kick around concrete soccer balls until every bone in thier feet where broken - after loosing a world cup game).. But here are some highlights none the less. I think its safe to say he will not be walking away with his life, to lounge around on a deck chair drinking Mai Tai's on the beach in Malaysia any time soon.

Kill tally: Approaching two million, including between 150,000 and 340,000 Iraqis and between 450,000 and 730,000 Iranians killed during the Iran-Iraq War. An estimated 1,000 Kuwaiti nationals killed following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. No conclusive figures for the number of Iraqis killed during the Gulf War, with estimates varying from as few as 1,500 to as many as 200,000. Over 100,000 Kurds killed or "disappeared". No reliable figures for the number of Iraqi dissidents and Shi'ite Muslims killed during Hussein's reign, though estimates put the figure between 60,000 and 100,000. (Mass graves discovered following the US occupation of Iraq in 2003 suggest that the total combined figure for Kurds, Shi'ites and dissidents killed could be as high as 300,000). Approximately 500,000 Iraqi children dead because of international trade sanctions introduced following the Gulf War.

-The war against Iran in 1980 in which hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed, and many doubles of that number were handicapped or missed.

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-The occupation of Kuwait which resulted in killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and injuring many doubles of that number in addition to the destruction of Iraq.

-Using chemical weapons to kill thousands of his own people in the North and the South of Iraq and Iran.

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-The arrest, torture and executions of tens of thousands of religious scholars and Islamic activists in such as Qasim Shubbar, Qasim Al Mubarqaa in 1979.

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-The arrest of thousand of religious people who rose up against the regime and the killing of hundreds of them in the popular uprising of 1977 in which Ayatollah Mohamad Baqir Al Hakim the leader of SCIRI was sentenced to life imprisonment.

-The killing of Sunni religious leaders such as Abdul Aziz Al Badri the Imam of Dragh district mosque in Baghdad in 1969, Al Shaikh Nadhum Al Asi from Ubaid tribe in Northern Iraq, Al Shiakh Al Shahrazori, Al Shaikh Umar Shaqlawa, Al Shiakh Rami Al Kirkukly, Al Shiakh Mohamad Shafeeq Al Badri, Abdul Ghani Shindala.

-The arrest of hundreds of Iraqi Islamic activists and the execution of five religious leaders in 1974.

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-The arrest, torture and execution of Ayatollah Mohamad baqir Al Sadr and his sistre Amina Al Sadr (Bint Al Huda) in 1980.

-The arrest of 90 members of Al Hakim family and the execution of 16 members of that family in 1983 to put pressure on Ayatollah Mohamad Baqir Al Hakim to stop his struggle against Saddam's regime.

-The assassination of many opposition figures outside Iraq such Haj Sahal Al Salman in UAE in 1981, Sami Mahdi and Ni'ma Mohamad in Pakistan in 1987, Sayed Mahdi Al Hakim in Sudan in 1988, and Shaikh Talib Al Suhail in Lebanon in 1994.

-The execution of 21 Bath Party leaders in 1979 in Iraq , the assassination of Hardan Al Tikriti former defence Minister in Kuwait in 1973, and the former Prime- Minister Abdul Razzaq Al naef in London 1978.

Several of those images are too graphic for this site. I have removed them. You can post the link to the images with a warning if you'd prefer.

BurnSide

Edited June 1, 2005 by BurnSide

[__Kratos__]

They are actually going to call it a trial? Amazing...

[AztecInca]

Well hopefully he does get thrown in jail for life and made to suffer as he made others suffer and just before he dies of natural causes he is executed.