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Iraq
Â’Chemical AliÂ’ takes SaddamÂ’s hot seat in Iraq trial
2007-01-12
Soon to take Sammy's place in a noose.
BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein’s cousin “Chemical Ali” moved centre stage in Iraq’s genocide trial on Thursday, occupying the executed dictator’s chair in court and confessing that he ordered thousands of Kurds to be forced out of their homes.

Ali Hassan Al Majid, who faces the gallows if found guilty of slaughtering 182,000 Kurdish villagers in the 1980s, spoke from the dock with subdued calm -- in stark contrast to angry tirades delivered by Saddam prior to his death. “I’m responsible for the displacement and I took this decision alone without going back to the high military command or Baath party commander. I say that before your court and before God,” Majid said.

But the former head of Iraq’s northern command, who owes his chilling nickname to accusations that he gassed thousands of Kurdish civilians, denied he was responsible for executing 300 Kurdish fighters. Instead he said that he had written a note to Saddam -- “Martyr, mercy on his soul” -- who pardoned them.
Yeah, sure.
In various audio recordings played by the prosecutor, his voice could be heard branding all Kurds saboteurs and claiming to have received a letter from current Iraqi president and veteran Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. The letter, according to the voice, asked for talks and mooted concessions in exchange for a halt to government demolishions of Kurdish villages.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  Judge Roy Bean: Do you have anything to say before we find you guilty?
Sam Dodd: I'm not guilty of nothing. There's no crime that I've done wrong.
Judge Roy Bean: Do you deny the killing?
Sam Dodd: I do not deny it. But there's no place in that book where it says nothing about killing a Chinese. And no one I know ever heard a law on greasers, niggers, or injuns.
Judge Roy Bean: All men stand equal before the law. And I will hang a man for killing anyone, including Chinks, greasers, or niggers! I'm very advanced in my views and outspoken.
Sam Dodd: There's no place in that book that...
Judge Roy Bean: Trust in my judgment of the book. Besides, you're gonna hang no matter what it says in there, 'cause I am the law, and the law is the handmaiden of justice. Get a rope.
Posted by: bruce   2007-01-12 21:13  

#6  So what does he have around his neck?
At first glance it looks like a toilet seat with tire tracks on it, but in reality it is the Offical Ba'ath Manila-Resistant Anti-Chafe Wrap.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-01-12 15:06  

#5  Why not leave Saddam's chair there? And his shoes?
Posted by: gorb   2007-01-12 13:14  

#4  Although defendants previously refused to occupy SaddamÂ’s former seat at the front of the dock, his cousin and one-time defence minister took the hot seat.

The court readjusted the seats, lining them up in three rows with Majid and Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti, former deputy chief of operations in the armed forces, in the front of the dock.

wow, I wonder? Verlaine was just saying 2 or 3 days ago he would try and get Saddam's chair removed from the court room!

heh give us a shout out Verlaine.

»:-)
Posted by: RD   2007-01-12 07:59  

#3  he swings to swim with Saddam then
Posted by: RD   2007-01-12 07:21  

#2  In the immortal words of Judge Roy Bean, Law West of the Pecos: HANG HIM!
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2007-01-12 03:41  

#1  Looks just like him!

Mulligan! :-)
Posted by: gorb   2007-01-12 02:09  

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