Saddam trial and the issue of resistance to the occupation
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsy Clarke ready to defend Saddam. He believes Saddam will not receive a fair trial and believes neither US or its puppet Iraqi council (as he calls it) have the right to try Saddam.
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On his part, former U.N. envoy to Iraq Denis Halliday appealed to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to take action to secure "a proper" tribunal to try Saddam.
"I hope that Annan would stand up and express human rights" of Saddam regardless of his earlier crimes against his people, he said.
But there is no conditions for this with the continued state of occupation, said Halliday, who resigned a few years ago charging that the U.N. weapons program had much harmed Iraqi people than their leaders.
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For prominent British legislator George Galloway, the Iraqi resistance could pick up after the news, as the people of the occupied country have nothing to fear except a long-term foreign occupation.
"I think the Iraqi resistance could be much stronger, for two reasons," Galloway said.
Saddam’s supporters would be inflamed by humiliation he suffered at the hands of the U.S. occupation forces during after the detention, he elaborated.
For his opponents in the country, they no longer fear his return to power – a possibility that deterred many Iraqis from joining resistance operations and – and would now join hands to liberate their country, added the British lawmaker.
The U.S. soldiers also have no excuse not to back up and leave the country after Saddam’s capture, Galloway said.
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The capture of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein would give momentum to spiraling Iraqi resistance against the U.S.-led occupation and cast clear light on who really stand behind it, Egyptian military and political experts expect. Read it here .
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On his part, former U.N. envoy to Iraq Denis Halliday appealed to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to take action to secure "a proper" tribunal to try Saddam.
"I hope that Annan would stand up and express human rights" of Saddam regardless of his earlier crimes against his people, he said.
But there is no conditions for this with the continued state of occupation, said Halliday, who resigned a few years ago charging that the U.N. weapons program had much harmed Iraqi people than their leaders.
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For prominent British legislator George Galloway, the Iraqi resistance could pick up after the news, as the people of the occupied country have nothing to fear except a long-term foreign occupation.
"I think the Iraqi resistance could be much stronger, for two reasons," Galloway said.
Saddam’s supporters would be inflamed by humiliation he suffered at the hands of the U.S. occupation forces during after the detention, he elaborated.
For his opponents in the country, they no longer fear his return to power – a possibility that deterred many Iraqis from joining resistance operations and – and would now join hands to liberate their country, added the British lawmaker.
The U.S. soldiers also have no excuse not to back up and leave the country after Saddam’s capture, Galloway said.
Read more about these here .
______________________________________
And
The capture of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein would give momentum to spiraling Iraqi resistance against the U.S.-led occupation and cast clear light on who really stand behind it, Egyptian military and political experts expect. Read it here .
posted by Faramin | 12:18 a.m.
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