WASHINGTON (AFP) - Controversial French lawyer Jacques Verges said he would call US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger as witnesses if he succeeds in defending ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in an eventual trial.
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"This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market," Verges told CBS.
He would call Kissinger to testify "for sure."
Asked if he would try and put the United States on trial in his defense of Saddam, he said:
"What I am criticizing is not (the) United States; (it) is the actual leaders of the (United States)."snip
The 79-year-old lawyer said he feared the United States might try to
"kill" Saddam prior to trial. "I have this fear. I am not sure. If I express my fear, it's precisely to avoid this."
...I wonder if CNN will think this too unimportant to be a lead story and continue keeping Americans in the dark about their rouge government?http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040426/pl_afp/us_france_saddam_people&cid=1521&ncid=1480
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