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Saddam wants to sue for crimes in Iraq
Thursday, January 26, 2006 | No comments posted.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer said today the deposed Iraqi president wants President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair tried on allegations of war crimes.
Khalil al-Dulaimi said Saddam wants to sue both leaders, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for allegedly authorizing the use of weapons such as depleted uranium artillery shells, white phosphorous, napalm and cluster bombs against Iraqis.
“We will sue Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld in The Hague for using such weapons of mass destruction,” al-Dulaimi, in Jordan, told The Associated Press in Baghdad.
No complaint has been filed to the International Criminal Court in The Netherlands, but al-Dulaimi said Saddam's foreign defense team will present it “very soon.”
“President Saddam intends to bring those criminals to justice for their mass killings of Iraqis in Baghdad, Ramadi, Fallujah and Qaim and abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib,” the lawyer added.
Khalil al-Dulaimi said Saddam wants to sue both leaders, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for allegedly authorizing the use of weapons such as depleted uranium artillery shells, white phosphorous, napalm and cluster bombs against Iraqis.
“We will sue Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld in The Hague for using such weapons of mass destruction,” al-Dulaimi, in Jordan, told The Associated Press in Baghdad.
No complaint has been filed to the International Criminal Court in The Netherlands, but al-Dulaimi said Saddam's foreign defense team will present it “very soon.”
“President Saddam intends to bring those criminals to justice for their mass killings of Iraqis in Baghdad, Ramadi, Fallujah and Qaim and abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib,” the lawyer added.
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