Tribunal set up for Saddam trial

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

The Iraqi National Congress has named a general director of the tribunal, seven judges and several prosecutors.

It also allocated a budget of $75 million for 2004-2005, but did not set a date for the trial of Iraq's former dictator to begin.

The court will decide the charges he will face, which could include genocide and crimes against humanity.

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"Lawyer Salem Chalabi was named president of the court," said Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress (INC).

Mr Chalabi is a US-educated lawyer and nephew of the head of the INC, Ahmed Chalabi.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3644431.stm

[Sandpiper]

1. Saddam deserves to be tried for his crimes

But it should happen in a legitimate forum like the Hague.

The fact that a Chalabi is involved lets you know that the fix is in.

[mulethree]

2. Who is IRC nowadays?

They were Chalabi's pre-invasion opposition group. Kurds and exiles and CIA. I haven't seen much of them since the invasion. They are blamed for a lot of bogus WMD "intelligence" and now probably also the underestimation of resistance.

The current "government" is the Iraqi Governing Council.

So whats the status of the Iraqi National Congress? Apparently we still feed them some big bucks and they are under the same Chalabi as the IGC?

[Laughing Mirror]

3. To echo his lawyer Jacques Vergès: Just what he is being accused of?

When they figure that out (genocide? war crimes?), he should be tried by a jury of his peers: Manuel Noriega, Baby Doc and Michele Duvalier, Imelda Marcos, Pinochet ... who else?

[ConcernedCanuk]

4. This thing is a farce!

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From the article:

"The judges and prosecutors will undergo training, including in international law, war crimes and crimes against humanity, he said."

:wtf:

They can't find any "trained" people in the world?

"WHO" , is going to do the training . . . ?

Let's see, how long does it take to "train" a lawyer,

and how long to become "competent" ?

And regarding "international law"

we know what the US of A thinks of THAT!

AND

I suppose they'll start this mess somewhere around Junior's next attempt to steal the WH?

Oh, by the way, who's on trial for that little old 911 thing anyhoo?

or did they blow the budget on Iraq? :shrug: