Saddam did not confess to mass killings - lawyer

[Judi Lynn]

Saddam did not confess to mass killings - lawyer
Thu Sep 8, 2005 3:05 AM ET

AMMAN (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's chief attorney denied on Thursday that the ousted leader had confessed to ordering executions and waging a campaign against Kurds in which thousands of people are said to have been killed.

"There was no confession by the president and all the investigations in this case do not implicate him at all," Khalil Dulaimi said in a statement sent to Reuters.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told state television on Tuesday that an investigator who questioned Saddam told him he had extracted important confessions from him and that the ousted leader had signed them.
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[Fridays Child]

1. Did anyone seriously believe that he did?

[andino]

6. Yeah

Freepers...

[ladylibertee]

7. Cutest little kid

I know I am off the subject, but that's just the cutest little kid.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Kind of strange.......we had to hear, from this administration, how

horribly evil he was...to the point of invading and occupying his country. The MSM couldn't tell us enough about how awful this guy was. So now that he's being tried, why not cover his trial? Why can't we hear his words on what happened? I'd think we'd all be interested in what he has to say in his defense. At least he'd get a fair and open trial at the Hague.

[tocqueville]

3. this is a Stalin-type trial in the best style

- The prisoner is already declared guilty in advance
- the jury is "selected"
- He repents his "sins" through "confessions" (at least they haven't dared to torture him)
- The President of the State in where he is tried declares his guilt and sentence in advance (which in any civil or common law country would automatically lead to a mistrial)...

this is a parody of justice

More Gonzales type of justice. How long will it take before that kind of "justice" is applied in the US ?

The fact that Saddam is an A-hole doesn't change a thing. The more A-hole you are, the BEST AND FAIREST justice you deserve. Just to mark the difference with barbary.

[Wabbajack]

4. The more A-hole you are, the BEST AND FAIREST justice you deserve.

Actually everybody accused of a crime derseves best and fairest justice.

[tocqueville]

5. Agreed

but when you have to try the worst murderers, it's very important that NO SHADOW falls on the justice. It's very difficult by human standards, but it must be done anyway.

Then justice becomes exemplary and a lesson to the masses. Hanging the guy in the first tree won't work, even if it's popular in the South. They did that to Mussolini, but thay had to bury him afterwards. Now his grave has become a cult place for facists... and turists...

[ladylibertee]

8. Okay , although I do not agree with how this all came down.......

quite frankly, I can care less if the man confessed or not. I mean, he did it.He is guilty and will be punished whether he confesses to it or not

[pinniped]

9. Hey, you mean they didn't take it right out of his mouth?

?

[The Duke of Michigan]

10. Well, actually,

What he said was "the British government has learned that I had ordered thousands of Kurds killed..."

[Javaman]

11. However, now that's out there that he "confessed"...

the real story that he didn't will fall by the side and all the freeps and neo-freeps and neo-cons and neo-xains, etc will take the fake story as verbatim and run with it.

More of the repuke lies, spin, distortion of the facts and bullshit.

The Truth is dead.

[AlCzervik]

12. Saddam did not confess to mass killings - lawyer

AMMAN (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's chief attorney denied on Thursday that the ousted president had confessed to ordering executions and waging a campaign against Kurds in which thousands of people are said to have been killed.


"There was no confession by the president and all the investigations in this case do not implicate him at all," Khalil Dulaimi said in a statement sent to Reuters.

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told state television on Tuesday that an investigator who questioned Saddam told him he had extracted important confessions from him and that the ousted leader had signed them.

Talabani did not say whether Saddam had actually admitted to committing any crimes, or had merely acknowledged that he was head of state and commander in chief of the army at the time of various military operations.

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