Habib,

Quite interesting read.  The motivations behind the stories/theories are
quite complex and sensational.  Nevertheless I believe it does make alot
of strategic sense during the Cold War for the US to support Sadam
against Iran.  Well times have changed now, and the New World order has
rearranged strategic priorities whilst despots like Sadam have failed to
smell the coffee....too bad for him.  He shall fine it almost
immpossible to convince anybody in any court of law.  This current Bush
administration is impatient with UN courts when people like Slobodan
Milosevic has been on trial for more than a year...and he is currently
running for local elections.  The UN tribunal for Rwanda has only 17
convictions over 9 years at a runnning cost of $80M per annum.
I agree with GW Bush that justice for despots should be short and swift:

August 3, 1979- Francis Nguema of Equitorial Guinea was executed by a
Moroccan firing squad after being overthrown a few months before in a
military coup. Crime- Genocide

Yet another sweet example-  In 24th December, 1989, another communist
dictator Nicolas Ceaucescu and his wife Elena where both sent to the
gallows by a nilitary tribunal only 24 hours after their arrests...!
Crime- Genocide.

So why not Sadam whose crimes ranges from rape, genocide and sponsoring
international terror?


Ebou

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