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https://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1106-05.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saddam

https://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23911/1.html

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Drei Anwälte ermordert: Ex-Präsident Saddam Hussein von Sondertribunal zum Tode verurteilt (06.11.06)

Nach gut einjähriger Verhandlung ist im Irak das Urteil gegen den früheren Staats- und Regierungschef Saddam Hussein gefallen. Wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit verurteilte ihn ein Sondertribunal am Sonntag zur Höchststrafe: Tod durch Erhängen. Das Urteil gegen Saddam ist noch nicht rechtskräftig. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty International bezeichnete in einer in London veröffentlichten Erklärung den Prozess gegen Saddam Hussein als "fehlerbehaftet und unfair". Das Verfahren habe eigentlich dazu beitragen sollen, Justiz und Rechtsstaatlichkeit im Irak voranzubringen. Tatsächlich sei es jedoch eine "schäbige Angelegenheit" gewesen, welche die Fähigkeit des Tribunals in Frage stelle, nach internationalen Standards Recht zu sprechen.

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: https://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=14671

https://electroniciraq.net/news/2599.shtml

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Hollow Victory: Saddam's Hanging

The highly questionable trial of Hussein will not resolve the internal strife that is tearing Iraq apart.

https://ga3.org/ct/3d20pgF1vXyz/



Frontier Justice For Saddam

Because the right to a fair trial means the right to a fair trial for everyone, even mass murderers.

https://ga3.org/ct/3120pgF1vXya/

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This Was a Guilty Verdict on America as Well

Robert Fisk writes: "So America's one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington's best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet there we were yesterday declaring it to be, in the White House's words, another 'great day for Iraq.'"

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110606L.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Saddam

Neither will admit that Iraq is a disaster. But while their state of denial may cost votes in Washington and London, on the frontline in the Middle East, it continues to cost lives

By Patrick Cockburn

"When does the incompetence end and the crime begin?" asked an appalled German Chancellor in the First World War when the German army commander said he intended to resume his bloody and doomed assaults on the French fortress city of Verdun.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15514.htm



1999 war games foresaw problems in Iraq

The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15517.htm

The Army's National Guard and Reserve are bracing for possible new and accelerated call-ups, spurred by high demand for US troops in Iraq, that leaders caution could undermine the citizen-soldier force as it struggles to rebuild.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110506X.shtml

The list of alleged contractor misdeeds in Iraq has grown long in the past 3 1/2 years. Yet when it comes to holding companies accountable, the charges seldom stick.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/110406D.shtml



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=contractor

https://www.juancole.com/2006/11/top-ten-ways-we-know-we-have-lost-in.html


From Information Clearing House

78 percent said the U.S. presence provokes more conflict than it prevents; 84 percent said they had little or no confidence in the U.S military.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15496.htm

By Linda Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz

In January, we estimated that the true cost of the Iraq war could reach $2 trillion, a figure that seemed shockingly high. But since that time, the cost of the war – in both blood and money – has risen even faster than our projections anticipated.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15499.htm