No "smoking gun" to convict Saddam Hussein yet, say Iraqi experts

[Tinoire]

No "smoking gun" to convict Saddam Hussein yet, say Iraqi experts

Iraqi legal experts warned of the huge difficulties ahead in finding decisive evidence of Saddam Hussein's guilt in crimes committed by his regime in Iraq.

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But the experts said at a Washington meeting organised by the American Enterprise Institute that any trial of Saddam could simply get bogged down over the lack of evidence.

"It is one thing to say what we all know about what Saddam did. But it's another to prove it in a court of law," warned Kanan Makiya, founder of the Iraq Memory Foundation, one of the groups helping to draw up a new Iraqi constitution.

The foundation is gathering and analyzing documents from various parts of the Iraqi regime, including the intelligence services, police and army. Some six million pages, most signed by the former Iraqi leader and his close deputies over the three decades of his regime have been collected by the foundation.

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Four Mosul university students were shot Wednesday during a second consecutive day of demonstrations in support of Saddam Hussein, police said. Shots rang out as the protesters approached an FPS post, an officer said.

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[Fleshdancer]

1. wtf??

Even I didn't see this one coming. Certainly they'll find a smoking gun, right? right?? It can't ALL be propoganda, can it?

[burrowowl]

2. Interesting!

very interesting!

American Enterprise Institute says this!
Hmmm! They don't want their dirty laundry exposed at a trial of Saddam?
Saddam is going to have a fatal heart attack or something.

[tlcandie]

3. This cabal can't get their SPECIAL Office working on this like

they did the whoring of intelligence to cook up this Iraq mess? Surely they can do that!! :eyes:

Well, we knew Saddam would either die OR GET OUT OF JAIL FREE! :wow: Who woulda thunk it!

Well SOME could talk about the illegalites, but then they would have ot plea bargin for their guilt or go down too! :+

EDIT: typo

[stickdog]

4. The greatest supervillain in the history of the world, and we can't

convict him in court?

"If the WMDs were bullshit, then you must acquit!"

[FlemingsGhost]

5. Isn't that the very stuff upon we based the invasion?

(You know, when the whole WMD thingy didn't pan out)

Excuse #14, I believe:

"Saddam has to be removed. After decades of torture, rape and heinous war crimes, the Iraqi people must be liberated from this evil monster. After all... He gassed his own people!"

Americans are fools.