Comments on: Who is killing Saddam’s defense lawyers?

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

“Their hope and expectation (Al-Qaeda) is that people in the US like Zunes, will continue to overreact to terroist publicity stunts, and create a disproportionate outcry in favor of terroists through misapplied logic, that will further contribute to the dramatic increase in anti-Americanism throughout the world, and thereby increase the chance of success for Jihad and recruitment”
-Yiwei Sun

By: troutsky

troutsky — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

“their hope and expectation (Al -Qaeda) is that the US will continue to overreact through disproportionate and missapplied military force that will further contribute to the dramatic increase in anti-Americanism throughout the Islamic world and thereby increase their ranks.” Prof. Stephan Zunes

By: troutsky

troutsky — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Maybe the French want Saadam off so he can come establish order in the Paris suburbs? Just a thought.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Real terror campaigns would tend to cow the lawyers defending Saddam... yet we see that it does just the opposite, that it plays right into Saddam's defense strategy, and the lawyers are so uppity that they are openly talking about attempts on their life yet they are not sufficiently worried to accept government help...

A real terror compaign would have the lawyers pipping down, and giving us bows and prostrations to the Shia Deathsquads.

I think it's time tell one of the Special Police Brigades that they have a new "enemy" now, and see if the behaviors of the lawyers, especially the head lawyer, changes.

Maybe not, they are fanatics after all.

By: Goesh

Goesh — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

I would go along with the idea of revenge type killing – reaching out indirectly to ‘touch’ him, to show him he is not in control at all and that death is coming for him too. There would be satisfaction in killing someone close to him, connected with him, loyal to him, as previously pointed out. Anyone smart enough to plan and carry through with the hit is smart enough to know his trial can’t be stopped given the resources and attorneys he has at his disposal.

What puzzles me too is why the lawyers weren’t covered with security. It sort of reminds me of domestic violence victims that won’t seek a court’s protection, or call the police or seek out a shelter. What a way to die, gurgling in your life’s blood, shed for saddam hussein, and probably wondering if your family will get hit too. They take their revenge seriously over there.

By: PatCA

PatCA — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

I think it’s an inside job, something to derail the trial. Why on earth would the Iraqis kill his lawyers when Saddam is so dead bang guilty?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

If Saddam’s found “Not Guilty”, do you suppose he’ll announce that he’s going to look for the REAL atrocity-committing, Kurd-killing, environmental-disaster creating totalitarian dictator?
– MK

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Let’s just kill the old mass murderer and be done with it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Anon at 1:54, Saddams lawyers would not move into the green zone because they wanted to protest US “occupation”.

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

It could be the terrorists, not because they’re trying to hurt or help Saddam per se, but because their goal is to sabotage the Rule of Law in Iraq. The trial of Saddam is a defining moment of transition for Iraqi jurisprudence, from the old despotic system to THE trial that sets up as the cornerstone of Iraq’s future as a functional state.

Don’t forget that the terrorists ultimate goal is to destroy the burgeoning Iraqi state – at all levels – that, when established, will threaten to fundamentally undermine the type of order they need in the region. If they can ruin this defining ‘moment’ for Iraq, they take make Iraq take a step back in history.