Iraq’s President, the unfortunately named Jalal Talabani, believes Saddam Hussein had confessed to war crimes.
According to The Times the President said:
… an investigating judge had been “able to extract confessions from Saddam’s mouth” about a series of massacres and war crimes committed by his regime.
President Talabani’s more interesting quote was this one:
“I met the investigator who questioned Saddam,” said Mr Talabani said in an interview on state television. “He said he had extracted important confessions from Saddam Hussein and he signed them… There are 100 reasons to sentence Saddam to death.”
If Saddam is sentenced to death where will Britain stand on this? According to EU law we are not allowed to deport even terrorists to countries where they may be executed so I doubt our involvement in a coalition that is facilitating the death penalty will endear us to our masters in Europe. Will our government seek to over-rule the death penalty for Saddam?
It’s alright nobody needs deporting in this case.
And given the large amount of help this government has given to CIA airways (landing and refueling in the UK) in their hobby of shipping people around the world to be tortured in a variety of exotic locations by interesting despotic regimes, or Extraordinary Rendition as it is known, I doubt they’ll be waving the human rights flag in this instance.
Comment by driverchris — September 7, 2005 @ 5:23 pm