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Tiger Beer
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 Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:38 am Post subject: Saddam's trial on live television |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/01/wirq101.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/01/ixworld.html
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The trial of Saddam Hussein will be shown on live television, Iraq's national security adviser said yesterday.
The trial will show the Arab and Muslim world "that this is going to be a fair, just trial with a defence counsel in there, with a proper prosecuting counsel as well there," Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq Rubaie told CNN. "And everybody will watch this trial live on television."
Earlier this month, an Iraqi tribunal filed the first charges against the deposed Iraqi leader over the 1982 killing of 143 residents of the village of Dujail, north-east of Baghdad, where he had been the target of a failed assassination attempt.
No date for his trial has yet been set. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| Oh good. Now Saddam will have a live international forum for embarrassing the US by revealing secrets from back in the '80's. That will really help in dealing with the Iran nuke situation. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Oh good. Now Saddam will have a live international forum for embarrassing the US by revealing secrets from back in the '80's. That will really help in dealing with the Iran nuke situation. |
See, that's the great thing about TV. You can edit out and condense just about anything. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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Doesn't prosecuting a former leader of a country who was a dictator (in the sense that he was the law) under anything except pre-established international criteria violate ex post facto restrictions in criminal law?
In other words, does not a trial of Saddam become a window-dressing for the vengeance (perhaps just anyway) of a nation oppressed? |
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TheUrbanMyth
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| Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:47 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
Doesn't prosecuting a former leader of a country who was a dictator (in the sense that he was the law) under anything except pre-established international criteria violate ex post facto restrictions in criminal law?
In other words, does not a trial of Saddam become a window-dressing for the vengeance (perhaps just anyway) of a nation oppressed? |
Look at the part of your link that has the heading "European convention on human rights" I would think both exceptions apply to Saddam. |
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