Saddam Hussein blew a gasket at his trial yesterday after listening to the testimony of an Iraqi Kurd who survived his Operation Anfal genocide:
Hussein and the six other defendants sat silently in the courtroom as other witnesses related the horrors of Operation Anfal, the 1987-88 campaign to suppress a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq during which the prosecution claims about 180,000 Kurds died.
But when Hussein heard a lawyer describe Kurdish guerrillas, known as peshmergas, as freedom fighters, the ex-president bellowed: “You are agents of Iran and Zionism. We will crush your heads.”
I’m not entirely certain that Mr. Hussein fully appreciates the gravity of his situation.
How very frustrating it must be for him, in the silence of his cell afterwards, to reflect that his head-crushing days are well and truly over.
Ah, well: sic transit gloria
Saddam Hussein should simply be transported into Kurdistan and released in the middle of a highly populated area.
Justice.
Lex, are you still transmitting an RSS?
I’ve tried all three feeds from this blog at Bloglines since I started losing the feed from you a couple of weeks ago. You don’t show up in the aggragator when you publish.
That’s all under the hood, Gary – if it’s not happening now (and it used to be before) I’m afraid I can’t explain it, sorry.
I guess he’s been watching Kids in the Hall reruns.
I read this morning that the prosecutors are now asking for one of the judges – al-Amiri – to be removed. He was having a “friendly exchange” with Hussein yesterday and said “you were not a dictator, the people around you made it seem like you were”.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/14/saddam.trial.ap/index.html
They say he’s been giving Hussein and his cronies a political platform, rather then running a trial. This judge is one of 5 on the panel, and served under Hussein.
Things that make you go hmmmmm…..