Saddam trial 'unlikely' until 2006

[dArKeR]

London - Saddam Hussein is unlikely to stand trial for at least another two years, a British newspaper quoted a top Iraqi lawyer as saying on Monday.

Salem Chalabi, who is co-ordinating the toppled dictator's trial, told the Guardian "there are frustrations" over establishing a war crimes tribunal to try him on charges that could include genocide and crimes against humanity.

The paper said delays have been caused by the need to select and screen judges, prepare courts and establish well-guarded jails to hold suspects.

"I think it will take two years to get to Saddam being tried," said Chalabi, a US-educated Iraqi lawyer and nephew of Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1076905981682B262&set_id=1

[Fovea]

1. cough cough *Bull*hit* cough cough

cough cough *election* cough cough

cough cough *Jack Ruby* cough cough

[jfxgillis]

2. Now now now

Don't be snide.

Well, okay, go ahead and be snide.

Remember all the Fred Barneses and Kate O'Beirnes chortling last December how the Saddam trial during the Presidential election would be the greatest Bush triumph?

[daleo]

3. Yeah, they are waiting for him to die of 'natural causes'

It's much cleaner that way. This is also further proof that the U.S. has no intention of getting out of Iraq in the near future. Expect thousands more to die first.

[Kitsune]

6. "Natural Causes" spelled h-e-a-d-s-h-o-t.

They'll never let him anywhere near a courtroom. He'll die of a 'brain hemmhorage' or somesuch and his body will be cremated before an autopsy can be performed.

[zbird]

7. The seeds are already being planted for this one.

I know it's The Globe, but I remembered seeing it in the checkout line when I read your post. On second thought, what better way to plant the seeds in the minds of the addled masses?

[Old and In the Way]

8. He will NEVER get his day in court.....won't happen.

But what surprises me is that he doesn't have a massive dossier on the Bush dealings with Iraq and other countries in the ME.....or is he waiting for a better time pay the family back?

[donsu]

11. we will be close to 1000 dead by this Nov.

wonder if Smirk lovers will be content with 1000 deaths. how many will it take?

[buckeye1]

4. kick

n/t

[POed_Ex_Repub]

5. Just in time for mid-term elections...

Yeah, I know... I'm cynical. Do you blame me?

[tkmorris]

9. They get away with this one

There isn't a damned thing we can do. You can't argue on the basis of Hussein's rights, you'll be viewed as a whacko. You can't argue that the trial is being put off to keep him from naming names in court because the vast majority see him as the biggest name of all and do not believe he has anything on the Bushes. Or Reagan for that matter even though I am certain he does. Even if a trial could be forced upon them it will be behind closed doors or they will kill him. He will NEVER speak publicly again. Believe it.

[Bhaisahab]

10. its a fcking scam

the lawyer is ahmed chalabi's nephew. what do you expect.

[AZCat]

12. There's a great book...

This guy named Fitzhugh MacClean (sp?) wrote a book called "Eastern Approaches" and in it, he describes witnessing one of the Soviet state trials in 1939(?) when he was a British Ambassador there. It's amazing how a little torture can cause someone to say exactly what you want them to say, even if it implicates them in crimes they didn't commit. Scary stuff...