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Wasn't me: Saddam's lawyer blames Iran for killings
2005-07-12
Iran, and not Saddam Hussein, was responsible for the killing of tens of thousands of Kurds and Shi'ites, a lawyer for the deposed Iraqi dictator said in comments published on Tuesday. Issam Ghazzawi, who is part of Saddam's defence team, told the daily Die Presse that "Iran is responsible for the murders of the Kurds" killed by poison gas in 1988.
"Iraq did not possess poison gas at this time," the lawyer was quoted as saying.
"Wasn't him, it was them dastardly Iranians! And the Joos!"
Iran also was responsible for the mass killings of Shi'ites who rose against Saddam in 1991, Ghazzawi reportedly said.
Uh huh. Aren't the Iranians Shi'ites as well?
More than 100,000 Kurds were estimated to have been killed by Saddam's troops in 1988, including about 5000 who were gassed to death in the Kurd city of Halabja and 8000 members of a powerful clan who were reportedly rounded up and shot. Up to 100,000 Shi'ites were killed, along with tens of thousands of Kurds, when Saddam moved to stamp out a rebellion after the first Gulf War in 1991.
Posted by:Steve

#9  TGA,

I'd rather give him a tail of tin cans (c.f. the movie Stalag 17) and release him on a busy street corner of downtown Bazra.

And then drive off 1/2 a block, stop, point, and yell "hey look ... Saddam!"
Posted by: Darth VAda   2005-07-12 21:41  

#8  OK. Give Saddam an Iranian passport and then release him into the streets of Halabja.

Just to please all sides.
Posted by: True German Ally   2005-07-12 19:58  

#7  hahahahahaha... Seriously I have said this before, but when we are hanging this bastard. Give me a break already.. . . .. . . . . .
Posted by: bgrebel9   2005-07-12 16:21  

#6  Ah, the sweet smell of progress.

We now have someone on Sadaam's side at least admitting that people were indeed massacred on his watch.
Posted by: Dreadnought   2005-07-12 15:57  

#5  This will convince the same crowd that believe that the Mossad attacked the WTC. I don't think the Kurds are likely to buy this load of doodoo. Chemical Ali is on the record admitting that he gassed the Kurds.
Posted by: Super Hose   2005-07-12 13:27  

#4  Grush - sounds like the Dems and their fellow travellers the MSM today. :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2005-07-12 13:07  

#3  "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" - Hitler
Posted by: Grush Shomogum2379   2005-07-12 13:02  

#2  I'd say it's time to switch jackasses ... uh I mean horses ... um, counsel again! I'd run with the evil twin brother at large defense. If not that then the Columbian drug gangs or revived 12th century assasins.
Posted by: Tkat   2005-07-12 12:55  

#1  Isn't it fascinating that this all comes out now. Not that I don't believe him (*snicker*). But it's curious he didn't happen to mention it before. Guess he was too busy.
Posted by: PlanetDan   2005-07-12 12:47  

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