Iran files charges with Iraqi court against Saddam and his cohorts

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http://www.kuna.net.kw/home/story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=870357

BAGHDAD, May 27 (KUNA) -- Iran has filed charges against former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, said a statement Saturday issued by the Iraqi foreign ministry at the conclusion of the visit here by Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki.

The statement indicated that both Iraqi and Iranian foreign ministers, at the conclusion of their talks here today, made references "to the crimes committed by the regime of Saddam Hussein against the Iraqi, Iranian, and Kuwaiti peoples." The two ministers underscored the imperative to have all of the principal players in that ousted regime be put on trial.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/May/focusoniraq_May132.xml§ion=focusoniraq

Iran takes court action against Saddam over war
(AFP)

27 May 2006

BAGHDAD - Iran has filed a legal suit against ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for his regime’s 1980s war against Tehran, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a joint statement with his Iraqi counterpart published on Saturday.

“The two sides, noting the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein’s regime in its aggression against the people of Iraq, Iran and Kuwait, confirmed the need to seek justice for that,” the statement read.

“To this end the Iranian Republic has passed on to the Foreign Ministry of Iraq a complaint against Saddam and his agents for examination by the Iraqi High Tribunal”, where Saddam already faces charges of crimes against humanity, the statement added.

The document did not list any specific charges Iran wished to bring against Saddam or any of his cohorts.



I wonder who is the cohorts that Iran is talking about here? :shrug:

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1. And if Saddam were still writing romance novels, we or perhaps

Rummy could swagger over there and say, here are the tools, here is the money, sick 'em boy..... and all would be well in the ME once again.