Saddam, Co-Defendants Go on Hunger Strike

[ak1971]

Maybe he will do the world a favor and the price of a bullet.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - After shouts, insults, arguments and walkouts, Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants unveiled a new show-stealing tactic Tuesday: They announced in court that they had gone on hunger strike.


Saddam said the strike was called to protest the tough way chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman has conducted the court since he took over last month.

"For three days we have been holding a hunger strike protesting against your way of treating us — against you and your masters," the former Iraqi leader said. Their claims could not be independently confirmed.

Abdel-Rahman has tried to impose order in a court where outbursts and abuse, mostly by Saddam and his former intelligence chief and half brother Barzan Ibrahim, have often overshadowed the proceedings. The disruptions led to criticism of Abdel-Rahman's predecessor, fellow Kurd Rizgar Mohammed Amin, for not doing enough to rein in the brother
BAGHDAD, Iraq - After shouts, insults, arguments and walkouts, Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants unveiled a new show-stealing tactic Tuesday: They announced in court that they had gone on hunger strike.

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Saddam said the strike was called to protest the tough way chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman has conducted the court since he took over last month.

"For three days we have been holding a hunger strike protesting against your way of treating us — against you and your masters," the former Iraqi leader said. Their claims could not be independently confirmed.

Abdel-Rahman has tried to impose order in a court where outbursts and abuse, mostly by Saddam and his former intelligence chief and half brother Barzan Ibrahim, have often overshadowed the proceedings. The disruptions led to criticism of Abdel-Rahman's predecessor, fellow Kurd Rizgar Mohammed Amin, for not doing enough to rein in the brother

[baja]

he may be acquitted

[baja]

And possibly reinstated as president of Iraq

[Bronx33]

Maybe he will do the world a favor and the price of a bullet.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - After shouts, insults, arguments and walkouts, Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants unveiled a new show-stealing tactic Tuesday: They announced in court that they had gone on hunger strike.


Saddam said the strike was called to protest the tough way chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman has conducted the court since he took over last month.

"For three days we have been holding a hunger strike protesting against your way of treating us — against you and your masters," the former Iraqi leader said. Their claims could not be independently confirmed.

Abdel-Rahman has tried to impose order in a court where outbursts and abuse, mostly by Saddam and his former intelligence chief and half brother Barzan Ibrahim, have often overshadowed the proceedings. The disruptions led to criticism of Abdel-Rahman's predecessor, fellow Kurd Rizgar Mohammed Amin, for not doing enough to rein in the brother
BAGHDAD, Iraq - After shouts, insults, arguments and walkouts, Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants unveiled a new show-stealing tactic Tuesday: They announced in court that they had gone on hunger strike.

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Saddam said the strike was called to protest the tough way chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman has conducted the court since he took over last month.

"For three days we have been holding a hunger strike protesting against your way of treating us — against you and your masters," the former Iraqi leader said. Their claims could not be independently confirmed.

Abdel-Rahman has tried to impose order in a court where outbursts and abuse, mostly by Saddam and his former intelligence chief and half brother Barzan Ibrahim, have often overshadowed the proceedings. The disruptions led to criticism of Abdel-Rahman's predecessor, fellow Kurd Rizgar Mohammed Amin, for not doing enough to rein in the brother


I find this sentence coming from the iraqi version of hitler pretty amusing, i wonder how many people he denied justice to over the years?

[baja]

I find this sentence coming from the iraqi version of hitler pretty amusing, i wonder how many people he denied justice to over the years?

The one's he fed to the wood chipper were some of them.

[gunns]

They announced in court that they had gone on hunger strike.

Good, should save us some tax dollars.

[Hotrod]

I doubt that spinless puss has the sack to carry it thru which is to bad.

Hes complaining about the heavy handed way the court is run Ha! Try yelling and making a scene in our courts and see how that works out for you. Hes been allowed to make the whole system over there look like a joke. He should be watching his trial from a small black and white TV in his cell.

[epicSocialism4tw]

I doubt that spinless puss has the sack to carry it thru which is to bad.

Hes complaining about the heavy handed way the court is run Ha! Try yelling and making a scene in our courts and see how that works out for you. Hes been allowed to make the whole system over there look like a joke. He should be watching his trial from a small black and white TV in his cell.

Yep. Get him out of there. He's using the court as an international stage. Those people need to show him who's in control.

Maybe we should let him go on vacation in the outdoors with Dick Cheney.

[Cito Pelon]

Justice sucks sometimes. You have to go through all these dramatics. Letting them starve to death, or forming a lynch-party are forms of justice, but that leads right back to the cave.

Whatever. Humans just cannot figure out how they want it - the law of the cave, or the law of the courtroom, juries, democracy. I have at most 30 years left on this earth, and I can guarantee at the end of my time there will still be roughly 50% either way, with wild swings depending on how stressful the times are.

I have to wonder if humans really have what it takes to meet any type of sublime goal. Hell, if you look closely at chimpanzee society, human society is exactly the same.

[alkemical]

Yep. Get him out of there. He's using the court as an international stage. Those people need to show him who's in control.

Maybe we should let him go on vacation in the outdoors with Dick Cheney.


Considering the man cheney shot was his own lawyer... and judge alito didn't get shot..... it's tough to say what the odds are on that. more chances are that saddam and cheney will enjoy a snifter of port and laugh about the peasents, err pheasants.....

[alkemical]

Justice sucks sometimes. You have to go through all these dramatics. Letting them starve to death, or forming a lynch-party are forms of justice, but that leads right back to the cave.

Whatever. Humans just cannot figure out how they want it - the law of the cave, or the law of the courtroom, juries, democracy. I have at most 30 years left on this earth, and I can guarantee at the end of my time there will still be roughly 50% either way, with wild swings depending on how stressful the times are.

I have to wonder if humans really have what it takes to meet any type of sublime goal. Hell, if you look closely at chimpanzee society, human society is exactly the same.


are you going to leave via 'death' or of another means?

[Cito Pelon]

Considering the man cheney shot was his own lawyer... and judge alito didn't get shot..... it's tough to say what the odds are on that. more chances are that saddam and cheney will enjoy a snifter of port and laugh about the peasents, err pheasants.....

That was pretty good. ^5