Saddam's murder victims still alive

[#juan]

By Omar al-Ibadi and Fredrik Dahl

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A witness for Saddam Hussein appeared to dispute prosecution allegations that 148 people were executed after a failed assassination bid in 1982, telling the court on Tuesday that some of them were still alive.

The anonymous man, testifying from behind a curtain in the courtroom in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, suggested the survivors fled abroad after the attempt on Saddam's life but had returned after his overthrow in 2003.

"Some of the people, who it was said at the time were executed because of their role in the assassination attempt against Saddam, came back to Iraq after the American occupation," he said.


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[#juan]

I wonder if other charges against Saddam are tainted as well

Could it be that Saddam was just a "normal" dictator? No better and no worse than the Saudi royal family or any other Arab dictator.

 

[Jay]

I wonder if those "normal dictators" will think twice from now on.

 

[aeon]

Re: RE: Saddam's murder victims still alive

I wonder if those "normal dictators" will think twice from now on.

Well when i look at saudi arabia, they don t think twice, and whats is funny with them, nobody talks aagainst what they do.

 

[Johnny Utah]

I wonder if other charges against Saddam are tainted as well

Could it be that Saddam was just a "normal" dictator? No better and no worse than the Saudi royal family or any other Arab dictator.

Now you're defending Saddam.. :roll:

 

[darkbeaver]

RE: Saddam's murder victi

I like Saddam more than Bush and Blair who have murdered way more people. Saddam had a better track record of government services than either Blair or Bush as well. During Saddam's reign the people of Iraq had better education and health care too. All the Iraqi's got from the empire is ruin and destruction and death for years to come, phoney freedom and phoney democracy and phoney freemarket prosperity. What a dirty joke. Anyone who believes they are better off today should have thier pointy little misshapen head examined.

 

[Colpy]

GEEZUS!

Come on Guys, so Saddam murdered 143 people instead of 148 in this one instance.

I read somewhere (god knows where now) that, including casualties in the wars he started, Saddanm was responsible for 136 deaths a DAY for the entirety of his 20-some odd year rule.

Bush has a ways to go, don't you think?

 

[#juan]

Hey DB

I think I found the button to rile the right,

 

[aeon]

Re: RE: Saddam's murder victims still alive

GEEZUS!

Come on Guys, so Saddam murdered 143 people instead of 148 in this one instance.

That i have to agree with you there.

I read somewhere (god knows where now) that, including casualties in the wars he started, Saddanm was responsible for 136 deaths a DAY for the entirety of his 20-some odd year rule.

Bush has a ways to go, don't you think?

They probably included the casualties from the sanctions, that is probably the reason why , the numbers are very high, still saddam was a son of a bush, i have no sympatie for him.

 

[Finder]

Well Saddam was America's dictator during the 80's he was good enough for them when he was murding his own people during these days because it was politically convenient at the time.

As for Saddam not being bad!!! are you fing blind! Nuts or just crazy, perhaps all of the above. Yeah he is just as bad as dictators the Americans currently support, but that doesn't make him good!!!

Come on this is sad!

 

[aeon]

Re: RE: Saddam's murder victi

I like Saddam more than Bush and Blair who have murdered way more people. Saddam had a better track record of government services than either Blair or Bush as well. During Saddam's reign the people of Iraq had better education and health care too. All the Iraqi's got from the empire is ruin and destruction and death for years to come, phoney freedom and phoney democracy and phoney freemarket prosperity. What a dirty joke. Anyone who believes they are better off today should have thier pointy little misshapen head examined.

That i am sorry, but i have to disagree with you there, nobody really knows after all how many peoples are dead from saddam, but it is more than 2 millions including the iranies during the war in the 80's, excluding the united sanctions, it is very well documented all over the internet.

I just think about the 1988 event in kurdish village where he killed instantly 5000 kurdish with biological weapons, is enough to make me puke, enough to have no regard whatsover happen to him, either is guilty or not for what he has done after this , just for this event, and for what he has done to the shiites, i say , either keep him in jail for the rest of his life, or shoot him.

 

[Jersay]

I agree with aeon.

However, this was all done under the watchful eye of the U.N of the U.S, under the Soviets and others. And they did nothing.

 

[jimmoyer]

Saddam was only under the watchful eye of your
imagination.

But characterizing the UN and the US as a watchful
eye is almost delusional.

Not only did the Chief Paranoid (Saddam) lie to his
gopher paranoids, but so too did the gopher paranoids
lie to Saddam.

This was no operational center in the western sense,
but a government built on lying to each other as well as
to the world decieving it in every dis-informational
way it could.

Watchful eye ?

Holy bejjeeezy guacamole, Batman !!!

 

[Jay]

Hey DB

I think I found the button to rile the right,

Oh...Ok, it's all for show....

 

[Toro]

By Omar al-Ibadi and Fredrik Dahl

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A witness for Saddam Hussein appeared to dispute prosecution allegations that 148 people were executed after a failed assassination bid in 1982, telling the court on Tuesday that some of them were still alive.

I guess we should let him go then, eh?

Oh wait, I bet it was the Americans who killed those 148 people!

 

[Toro]

Re: RE: Saddam's murder victi

I like Saddam more than Bush and Blair who have murdered way more people. Saddam had a better track record of government services than either Blair or Bush as well. During Saddam's reign the people of Iraq had better education and health care too. All the Iraqi's got from the empire is ruin and destruction and death for years to come, phoney freedom and phoney democracy and phoney freemarket prosperity.

Oh yes. And all those American refugees who emigrated to Baghdad would agree to.

The huge American diaspora that have left the States because of the grinding poverty, complete lack of health care, disappearance of hundreds of thousands of citizens, torture in the US Olympic HQ, and the inability to sing awful socialist folk songs lead to this massive migration and, unsurprisingly, touched the gentle heart of Mesopotamia. Unfortunately, their paradise was crushed when Iraq tried to switch to trading oil in euros and The World's Most Evil Nation in the History of Mankind invaded, to benefit the 12 people in the evil cabal (who are Jewish or have friends who are Jews) that control the entire world's wealth at the expense of the other 6 billion who live on this planet, which is due to explode on July 17, 2009 because of the oil industry.

 

[Jay]

I guess we should let him go then, eh?

Sure, and the Liberals are looking for a new leader....perfect match!

Oh wait, I bet it was the Americans who killed those 148 people!

No sir, that was GWB who did that!

 

[aeon]

Sure, and the Liberals are looking for a new leader....perfect match!

We don t need to look for a new leader in the same line of saddam hussein, we have stephan harper.
:lol:

 

[sanch]

Sure, and the Liberals are looking for a new leader....perfect match!

We don t need to look for a new leader in the same line of saddam hussein, we have stephan harper.
:lol:

In these two short sentences we are able to see the idiocy that plagues both the right and left in Canada.

 

[dekhqonbacha]

By Omar al-Ibadi and Fredrik Dahl

...
"Some of the people, who it was said at the time were executed because of their role in the assassination attempt against Saddam, came back to Iraq after the American occupation," he said.


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If they were alive all this time, why they were quite while being abroad in safety?