saddam's appeal to the world

Saddam trial adjourned
13 February 2006

(two langagues for your enjoyment / click the image. however despite it all, everyone should have a fair international trial, and expose the rest of the masses in the international governments who contributed to these crimes directly and indirectly over the years)


... A fiery Saddam was back in court on Monday ... said he was forced to appear. ... roared: "Down with the traitor, down with traitors, down with Bush... long live the ummah (Islamic nation) ... long live the ummah ... long live the ummah..." "I was forced into the courtroom," the former president of Iraq told Raouf Abdel Rahman, the chief judge. ... condemns the court as an imperial creation of US military occupation, slammed his fist on the railing of his metal pen as he berated the chief judge. ... "You don't have the right to sit on that chair because you are ignorant of the law," ... "I was forced into the courtroom" ...

former senior aides told the chamber they were forced to appear as witnesses and one of them accused the chief prosecutor of being a former member of Saddam's intelligence services, throwing a new twist into a chaotic trial.


They told the court that they had been forced to appear as witnesses, reinforcing concerns by some human rights groups that a fair trial is impossible in Iraq. ... said he was blindfolded and handcuffed when he was brought to the court. "I was brought here by force and I refuse to testify," al-Samarrai told the court. "I did not accept to be a witness." ... the head of Saddam's defence team, said: "No international law can force people to attend trials. "Unless you change the law and turn it into the law of the jungle." ...

He also called for improved security for the defence counsel and continuous television transmission of the trial without periodic cuts to ensure that it was "transparent and fair". ... calls the entire court illegitimate, said the proceedings were dangerously adrift.

"They don't know what to do, because for a court you need a judge, a prosecutor, defence and defendants - if two of them are not here, then there is no more court," he said.
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