Ex-official (Salem Chalabi) says Iraq wants show trial for Saddam

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK324537.htm

BAGHDAD, Sept 23 (Reuters) - The former head of Iraq's special tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein accused the interim government on Thursday of manipulating the tribunal for political ends and planning hasty show trials and executions.

In a lengthy statement emailed to news organisations, Salem Chalabi also said the government had concocted politically motivated murder charges against him to oust him from his post.

The government said it had no immediate response to Chalabi's accusations.

"The caretaker government wants to begin the trials, and possibly even conclude them, before the Iraqi elections scheduled for late January because they believe this will help their popularity in the country," Chalabi wrote.

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[Tempest]

1. Chalabi was doing the same thing

Now that he's been accused of murder and was thrown off the trial, he's trying to make it look like he wasn't involved in Saddam's sham trial.

[kokomo]

2. why a trial before a legitimate democratic government is formed?

[Tempest]

3. Timing

U.S. elections are in November, before Iraq's January elections.

Bush needs Saddam front & center before the U.S. elections since he can't run on his dismal domestic record.

Anything to take the focus from the Iraq quagmire, the massive deficit, the increasing level of poverty and the increasing number of Americans without health care.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Salem Chalabi was the Iraqi that had final say for all "reconstruction

business" in Iraq, when the Chalabis were favored by the neo-conservative traitors in BFEE-especially Douglas Feith and his OSP.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1048205,00.html

And, goodness me, what a big business to be in-still.

Post_War Contractors Ranked by Total Contract Value in Iraq and Afghanistan
(you can click on any of the companies for updates and info-great for researchers)
http://www.publicintegrity.org/wow/resources.aspx?act=total

Mercenaries are big campaign contributors too:mad:
http://www.publicintegrity.org/resources.aspx?act=contrib