 | Also noted by Jackal late yesterday, carried over. |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Ramsey Clark, a former US attorney general who is one of Saddam Hussein's lawyers, said that any death sentence against the former Iraqi president would increase violence in the strife-torn country. "It seems clear that a guilty verdict will set off catastrophic violence" and that a death sentence would be even worse, Clark told a Washington press conference.
| "Oh, they'll seethe, they'll roll their eyes, they'll make faces!" |
"It's hard to know how many Iraqis, dozens, hundreds, thousands, will die because of the sentence," he said.
A date for a verdict in the crimes against humanity trial against Saddam and seven co-accused, which opened in October, 2005, is due to be set soon after the trial resumes on October 16. If Saddam is found guilty and sentenced to death, Iraqi law lays down that he should be executed within 30 days, said Clark.
| Which really should have been done within 30 days of when he was pulled out of the septic tank. |
The US attorney general from 1967-69 reaffirmed his belief that the court is illegal because it was set up only to try Saddam. | No problem, the court can then try all the rest of Sammy's pals. |
He criticised the judges because they were "selected, trained, paid, protected by the United States."
| Yup, pretty much. Sweet deal, huh? |
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