If only the dead could speak???


Saddam Execution Rushed to Hide Information — Russian Ex-PM
Created: 15.01.2007 10:40 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 20:38 MSK


MosNews


The execution of Saddam Hussein was rushed to prevent the former Iraqi leader from revealing facts that could compromise the United States, former Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov has said.

Saddam was executed in an “unexpected” way so “he could not have the last word” and reveal compromising information on the relationship between the United States and his former regime, the PTI news agency quoted Primakov as saying in a televised interview on Sunday.

If Saddam Hussein “had said everything (he knew), the current United States president (George W Bush) would have been greatly embarrassed,” said Primakov, a Middle East expert formerly on good terms with Saddam.

Primakov highlighted the military cooperation between Washington and Baghdad during the 1980s when the United States was fighting the fundamentalist threat from Iran.

He also alleged that Saddam made a deal with Washington before the 2003 invasion of Iraq to allow the United States to occupy the country without meeting any opposition.

Primakov made two confidential visits to Iraq at the request of Russian President Vladimir Putin shortly before the US-led invasion of the country.

Saddam was executed for crimes against humanity on December 30, which coincided with the first day of the Eid al-Adha feast and drew widespread Muslim condemnation

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/01/15/primakov.shtml

Rushed? The trial took over a year!

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Saddam should have been tried in the WORLD COURT at the HAGUE, not in in war torn chaotic Iraq. You know Bush could ill-afford to have had Saddam tried before the world for fear of Saddam talkling which would have implicated American Foreign policy over the last 27 years.

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Hi Rast,

I know how you like to get third worlders involved but Saddam was tried for DOMESTIC crimes.

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Gassing the Kurds with chemical weapons is a War Crime!!!!. This was one of the arguments Bush used to justify invading Iraq. Yet, Bush did not allow Saddam to go on trial for his most horrific crimes. Bush had Saddam put on trial for lesser crimes, so as not to implicate American Foriegn Policies during Reagan and Bush I Administration.

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Spitty, do we have another report to back up this story? If you can get another source then you have something to embarass Bush and this adminstation. Without that you just have a news story with someones opinion.

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And Russia has so much credibility
http://www.cdi.org/russia/258-1.cfm

Gassing your own people is a War Crime? How about burning 150 women, and children, alive at Wayco? Shouldn't THAT also be a "War Crime?".............Oh wait! Sorry. Those were Christians. They don't count.

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Who was in the White House when the Waco compond was attacked? I think that Bill and Reno should be tried for war crimes by the world court.

I mean Rasta you want to be fair don't you? This oversight.

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