Dupe...Chalabi (nephew) (CNN)

[cally]

Mods, please lock. It's a dupe



Breaking...no link yet. On edit: Posts below confirm it's the nephew not the main crook. I wasn't sure when I first posted.

[Goldmund]

1. I think...

...it's his nephew.

A pure coincidence.

[pinto]

2. nephew of the "wanted in Jordan for embezzlement conviction" Chalabi.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. I wonder who picked the tribunal.....

[w13rd0]

4. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

No, no cronyism whatsoever. Nah, wouldn't have any of that...

[AlCzervik]

5. Yup, it's his nephew

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Today: April 20, 2004 at 13:31:26 PDT


Iraq Leaders Create Tribunal for Saddam

ASSOCIATED PRESS


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -

Iraqi leaders have set up a tribunal of judges and prosecutors to try ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, a spokesman announced on Tuesday.

Salem Chalabi, a U.S.-educated lawyer and nephew of the head of the Iraqi National Congress, was named as general director of the tribunal, and he has named a panel of seven judges and four prosecutors, INC spokesman Entefadh Qanbar said.

The tribunal has a 2004-2005 budget of $75 million, Qanbar said.

A date has yet to be set for the trial of Saddam, who was captured by U.S. troops in December and has since been held by U.S. troops at an undisclosed location in or near Baghdad.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2004/apr/20/042004850.html

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[fob]

6. At least that means we'll be able to get the result BEFORE the trial

in case coverage gets boring.

[anarchy1999]

7. Yesterday we get the news of Bremer's replacement, Negroponte.

Today we throw more fuel on the fire and name Chalabi to head the tribunal. Just great, criminals still in favor trying criminals that have fallen out of favor. What next?

Why don't the folks wanting this conflagration just get it over with, instead of polking and "swatting" at the hornet's nest, just take a stick of dynamite and get it over with.

on edit,
Just read it is Chalabi's nephew, so..... anyone here think Uncle isn't telling him what to do?

[w13rd0]

10. What next?

Henry Kissinger will replace Powell...

Terrorists will hit the Democratic convention, that or Ashcroft and a group of sanctified FBI crusaders, wiping out hundreds of "enemy combatants" in one fell swoop...

The oil must flow...

[qanda]

8. This is so unbelievable

That words escape me.

[Dover]

9. Sounds more like the makings of a Doonesbury cartoon

LOL! That the criminal Chalabi would sit in judgement over some other criminal is comical.....or outrageous! Take your pick.

[webtrainer]

11. The fix is in for Saddam's "war crimes" trial

http://www.tnhonline.com/news/2004/03/09/Opinion/The-Fix.Is.In.For.Saddams.war.Crimes.Trial-629582.shtml

-->snip

Cherif Bassiouni, a legal authority on the Arab world, opined, "The administration is looking to have a political vindication of why the U.S. went into Iraq. With no weapons of mass destruction to be found, the next best thing is to show how bad Saddam was, how his regime was like the Nazis'."

And the best part is, there won't be any messy questions like, "Why was the US propping up Hitler Junior for so long?" Objection overruled, Saddam!

<--snip

The article cited above goes on to say how Milosevic's trial got embarrasing for the west when he started accusing the U.S. of having a double standard for human rights. Saddam won't be able to call to the stand Rummy and ask him about when they met in 1983.

[tom_paine]

13. Sure it is. You think Third World Imperial Amerika would tolerate an

honest trial?

Of course not.

Just where the hell do you think you live?

[Emboldened Chimp]

12. More nepotism!

Ain't democracy grand?

[AlCzervik]

14. Maybe they can put

Prince Bandhar on the 911 commission.

[pinto]

15. Iraq uses a French based judicial model, which gives the judge

much greater role than English or American model. Defense and prosecution lawyers are more advisers than advocates, judge rules. If this court does the same it gives Chalabi that role.

Has a ugly kind of symmetry.

We paid the Chalabis for their dubious "intelligence", promised the Chalabi's Iraq, parlayed that "intelligence" into hasty Iraq War Resolution post-9/11, invaded and occupied Iraq at the cost of 700 American lives, untold thousands of Iraqi lives and billions in deficit dollars, will now hand the country over to a convicted felon who will "manage" the civil war and his nephew who will execute Saddam.

Mission accomplished.

[daleo]

16. They will turn Saddam into a martyr

If they execute him (which looks inevitable now), he will take on mythic status, and all of his cruelties will be forgotten. Ironic, but under the BFEE irony is dead.

[RoyGBiv]

17. Link

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

and

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=499400&mesg_id=499400