Hussein on trial; Dujail, Iraq. And a question.

[LynnTheDem]

-An ambush; the attempted assassination of Hussein. As Saddam's motorcade entered town, Dawa gunmen opened fire from palm groves, triggering a gunbattle that lasted for hours.

-Arrests and killings began immediately, followed by bombardments from helicopter gunships. Soldiers cut down the date palms on which the people depended, and bulldozed their houses.

http://users.crocker.com/~afsc/harvest/independent.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4344136.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3988433.stm

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3218,36-397156,0.html

http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/dailystar/21552.php

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2003/12/12/iraq6582.htm

http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/irq-summary-eng

-Abu Ghraib

"We stayed there two, or maybe three years," she said, trying to recall the passages of her suffering. "Death. People were dying." After being released from the desert fortress, her husband, Jassim Mohammed, tried to establish the fate of their three missing sons who had remained in Abu Ghraib.

http://hrw.org/reports/2004/usa0604/

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0804/dailyUpdate.html?s=ent

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302380.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4171177.stm

http://www.sundayherald.com/43796

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15981-2004May10.html

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1342893.htm

-148 people were then referred to the Revolutionary Court; "a sham"

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAS20051020&articleId=1116

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3916987.stm

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Global-Terrorism/Amnesty-attacks-Hicks-trial-as-sham-justice/2005/02/14/1108229936602.html

http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=773

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/17/iraq8858.htm

-148 executed; decree, dated 23 July 1985, and apparently signed by Saddam Hussein, ordered the executions.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/16/terror/main680658.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/timeline/062793.htm

One question for those who opened the above links; when's the other trial?

[countryjake]

1. I'll be dreaming of the Hague tonight!

You know, all those reports got me to thinking, maybe that's why our government is so damned hesitant to get the hell out of there and it's also probably why there's such an awful lot of them taking such a weak-kneed, cowardly stance, pretending that we just can't "turn our backs" on Iraq now. There's gonna be high hell to pay in the coming years, for what we've done! And they all know it!

I can even envision Rumsfeld fleeing to a hideout down in Argentina, but every single member of this administration is complicit in this War and who's gonna hold them all responsible?

Those stories about the children and women being held were worse, but the very first one is what got me, about the American soldier crying as those orchards were destroyed, (bet he was a farmboy), with the children throwing themselves down in front of the bulldozers and then that poor villager interviewed at the end...


"Asked how much his lost orchard was worth, Nusayef Jassim said in a distraught voice: 'It is as if someone cut off my hands and you asked me how much my hands were worth.'"

[LynnTheDem]

2. The orchards article, yeah. That was one of the first US war crimes

(other than the actual war crime of war of aggression, that is) that we heard about publicly, and I remember how absolutely horrified and shocked and stunned I was.

And now that article wouldn't raise more than a yawn from the vast majority in this country, I bet.

Hell, we have a "president" who says he'll veto a defense bill if it bans TORTURE.

What the fuck have we become...

Don't answer that.