NO MATTER WHAT THIS TRIAL NEEDS TO BE MADE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC... IT KEEPS TRIALS MORE FAIR (IF THERE EVEN IS SUCH A THING AS FAIR JUSTICE ANYMORE)...
OUTBURST OR NOT - THE JUDGE CLOSEDTHE DOORS TO THE PUBLIC EYE-THAT MAKES THINGS SMELL IN DENMARK.
** ALSO- THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT CHARGING SADDAMS *LAWYERS* $12,000 PER DAY JUST TO GET TO AND FROM THE AIRPORT TO THE COURTHOUSE ...AND GIVING THEM A VERY DIFFICULT TIME EVEN ENTERING AND LEAVING IRAQ IS A TACTIC THAT APPEARSTO ONLY SERVES TO TRY TO PREVENT SADDAM FROM COUNSEL AND SERVES TO HINDER PROPER REPRESENTATION MAKING IT RATHER UNFAIR NOT ...INCLUSIVE OF ANY TESTIMONY ETC.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Saddam Hussein, testifying for the first time in his trial, called on Iraqis to stop killing each other and instead fight U.S. troops. The judge angrily reprimanded him for making a political speech and ordered the public to leave the courtroom.
In a shouting match, chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman told Saddam, "You used to be a head of state. You are a defendant now."
Saddam, dressed in a black suit and wearing large reading glasses, repeatedly brushed off the judge's demands that he address the charges against him -- the killing of 148 Shiites and the imprisonment and torture of others during a crackdown in the 1980s.
Instead, he read from a prepared text, addressing the "great Iraqi people" -- a phrase he often used in his presidential speeches -- and said he was "pained" by the recent wave of Sunni-Shiite violence.
http://www.courttv.com/trials/saddam/031506_ap.html
: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:56 a.m. EST
: US Troops Attacked After Saddam-Bin Laden Pact
: U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia were attacked by al Qaeda twice in
: the months following Saddam Hussein's decision to approve
: Osama bin Laden's request for help in attacking
: "foreign forces" in Saudi Arabia.
: An Iraqi intelligence document released last week states that
: bin Laden met in Sudan with senior Iraqi intelligence
: agents on Feb. 19, 1995, where he requested help in
: conducting "joint operations against foreign
: forces" in Saudi Arabia.
: SNIP....
: The document goes on to state: "The approval was received
: from the Leader, Mr. President, may God keep him . . . . We
: were left to develop the relationship and the cooperation
: between the two sides to see what other doors of
: cooperation and agreement open up."
: Reporting on the bombshell document on Wednesday, ABC News
: noted: "Given that the document claims bin Laden was
: proposing to the Iraqis that they conduct 'joint operations
: against foreign forces' in Saudi Arabia, it is interesting
: to note that eight months after the meeting — on November
: 13, 1995 — terrorists attacked Saudi National Guard
: Headquarters in Riyadh, killing 5 U.S. military advisors.
: The militants later confessed on Saudi TV to having been
: trained by Osama bin Laden."
: Unnoted by ABC: Eight months after the Riyadh attack, 19 U.S.
: servicemen were killed when a large truck bomb blew up the
: Khobar Towers military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
: In August 1996 - two months after the Khobar attack and a
: year-and-a-half after he entered into his "joint
: operations" agreement with Saddam - bin Laden issued a
: Declaration of Jihad outlining his organization's goals.
: http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/23/95830.shtml?s=ic
