Judges who will try Saddam selected

[RoyGBiv]

Judges who will try Saddam selected

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Judges who will try former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) have been selected, a spokesman for the pro-US Iraqi National Congress (INC) party said.

"Lawyer Sami Chalabi was named president of the court," Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for Ahmad Chalabi's INC, said that seven judges and five prosecutors were also named.

"The building that will house the court has also been selected and a budget has been earmarked for this trial," he added.

But the date of the trial has yet to be set. Saddam Hussein has been in detention since US forces captured him on December 13.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1515&ncid=1515&e=11&u=/afp/20040420/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_saddam_trial_040420175951

[kayell]

1. Sami Chalabi - any relation? nt

[MaineDem]

2. Chalabi???

Any relation?

[daleo]

3. Big Chalabi's nephew, if I remember correctly

Certainly a relation.

Other members of the court:

judge - A. Chalabi
prosecutor - B. Chalabi
defense - C. Chalabi
jurors - D. Chalabi through O. Chalabi
executioner - P. Chalabi

The letters Q. through Z. are ready if alternates are needed.

[dolo amber]

4. That's just sad

They're not even trying to be clever about it anymore...:eyes:

[jburton]

5. They'll send Scalia to help out too

:eyes:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. Scalia Chalabi?

That's a hanging judge, right there.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

6. Looking forward to April Glasspie's appearance as a witness

heh.

[peterh]

7. Addition info….

The tribunal, with a 2004-05 budget of $75 million, will also prosecute any
members of Saddam's regime who are charged, Qanbar said.

The court and prosecutors will determine charges against Saddam and his former
officials, Qanbar said, adding that more judges will be hired for the tribunal.
The judges and prosecutors will undergo training, including in international
law, war crimes and crimes against humanity, he said.
A committee of Iraq's Governing Council selected Chalabi as head of the court
under a law passed earlier by the council and approved by top U.S. administrator
L. Paul Bremer. The INC, headed by council member Ahmad Chalabi, has a seat on
the committee.
Since Saddam's regime fell, some 300,000 bodies were found buried in mass
graves, victims of his regime's persecution of political enemies, Kurds and
Shiite Muslims, and other groups, U.S. officials say. Saddam's military also
used chemical weapons against troops and civilians during the Iran-Iraq War in
the 1980s and during a Kurdish uprising.
In an interview with the New York Times earlier this month, Chalabi said that
Saddam wouldn't be the first person tried, nor would he be allowed to act as his
own lawyer.
Chalabi said that he thought about 200 people would be tried, "a good portion
of which can be dealt with through plea-bargaining."




Plea-bargain: you will sign the confession that you were ordered by Saddam to commit said atrocities…..or you will die….

[cally]

9. kick

sorry I posted a dupe
here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x499615

[RoyGBiv]

10. Chalabi

I'm curious. Does anyone know how common a name this is? I've kinda sorta tried to figure it out, and I can't.

I only ask because there is a Chalabi that's wanted by Interpol for having connections to bin Laden. This guy is from Lybia though.