Sunday, July 10, 2005
Dujail, Iraq
John F. Burns has a surprisingly good piece in today's NY Times, 'A Town That Bled Under Hussein Hails His Trial'. Since it is the NYT, linking directly to the article only allows you to get to their "Free Registration" page (GFY NYT!).
So, you can find it at this Google search Dujail.
Some of the deaths mentioned in the article are as follows:
* In the late 1980's as many as 150,000 Kurds were killed, many shot and dumped into mass graves, others killed in poison-gas (a WMD as far as I am concerned) attacks; the chemical weapons (WMD's) attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 that killed about 5,000.
* The Shiite rebellion repression in southern Iraq in 1991, in which 150,000 people are believed to have been killed.
* 160 men and boys from Dujail, as well as another 143 executed by Saddam's court.
And how many other mass graves have yet to be discovered or unearthed?
Ziad Najdawi is a Jordanian who is part of the international legal defense team of Saddam Hussein. He says, according to the NYT article:
I think Mr. Najdawi is presumptuously off the mark in what he asserts. I think it'll be damn hard to prove that "we" killed the Kurds, the Shiites, those in Dujail; as well as dug and buried them in mass graves.
I don't think it should be difficult to prove who really is responsible for those death. Saddam Hussein, of course. This isn't rocket science or quantum physics.
Mr. Burns' article is quite good. My question is this: It's from the NYT...will Liberals believe it, deny it, or ignore it?
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So, you can find it at this Google search Dujail.
Some of the deaths mentioned in the article are as follows:
* In the late 1980's as many as 150,000 Kurds were killed, many shot and dumped into mass graves, others killed in poison-gas (a WMD as far as I am concerned) attacks; the chemical weapons (WMD's) attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 that killed about 5,000.
* The Shiite rebellion repression in southern Iraq in 1991, in which 150,000 people are believed to have been killed.
* 160 men and boys from Dujail, as well as another 143 executed by Saddam's court.
And how many other mass graves have yet to be discovered or unearthed?
Ziad Najdawi is a Jordanian who is part of the international legal defense team of Saddam Hussein. He says, according to the NYT article:
"They [anyone not supportive of Hussein and anyone anti-American] can talk all they want, about executions and chemical weapons and mass graves, but we will say, 'It is all lies, nothing but lies, everything here is tainted by America.'"
I think Mr. Najdawi is presumptuously off the mark in what he asserts. I think it'll be damn hard to prove that "we" killed the Kurds, the Shiites, those in Dujail; as well as dug and buried them in mass graves.
I don't think it should be difficult to prove who really is responsible for those death. Saddam Hussein, of course. This isn't rocket science or quantum physics.
Mr. Burns' article is quite good. My question is this: It's from the NYT...will Liberals believe it, deny it, or ignore it?
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