Accord Posted May 20, 2005 Share Posted May 20, 2005 Saddam to sue newspaper over leaked jail pictures By Michael Theodoulou, and Philippe Naughton, Times Online Lawyers for Saddam Hussein said today that they have started legal action against The Sun after the newspaper published a front-page picture of the deposed dictator wandering around an Iraqi jail in his underpants. Ziyad Khasawneh, who heads Saddam's 20-strong defence team based in Jordan, told The Times that he would also be starting legal action against US forces in Iraq and Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, for allowing Saddam to be photographed in jail in breach of international law. The photographs appeared in both The Sun and the New York Post, which are owned by the News Corporation, parent company of The Times. Headlined "Tyrant's In His Pants" and "Butcher of Sagdad", the photographs showed the 68-year-old deposed dictator in his Y-fronts, sleeping in his cell and washing his own clothes. "We have decided to sue the newspaper and the others who gave these pictures to the newspaper. They were from the jail and President Saddam is with the American forces, so the principal authority is Rumsfeld because he is the minister of defence," Mr Khasawneh said. He added: "I phoned London this morning to begin legal action." The publication of the photographs, the first of Saddam since a brief court hearing last July, dismayed US military officials. They have been keen to avoid a repeat of the Abu Ghraib scandal in which pictures were published of Iraq detainees being abused by American troops at a jail near Baghdad. Mr Khasawneh described the Saddam photos as "another Abu Ghraib". A US military statement said that the photos "were taken in clear violation of Department of Defence directives and possibly Geneva Convention guidelines for the humane treatment of detained individuals". "There is an investigation," added US Staff Sergeant Don Dees. "A policy prohibits us from exploitation of detainees and that policy is in place to preserve their dignity." The Sun said that it obtained the photos from "US military sources", who it claimed had handed over the pictures in the hope of dealing a blow to the resistance in Iraq. "Saddam is not superman or God, he is now just an ageing and humble old man. It?s important that the people of Iraq see him like that to destroy the myth," the source was quoted as saying. But Abdelbari Atwan, editor-in-chief of Al-Quds al-Arabi, a London-based pan Arab newspaper, said that the idea that the pictures would demoralise Iraqi insurgents was ill-conceived. He said: "It will be counter-productive. The Americans when they released this picture they thought they would send a message to the Iraqi insurgents that Saddam is finished and he is humiliated and they will have to give up. I think this will fuel more attacks. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1620557,00.html :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol pwned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FutureGM Posted May 20, 2005 Share Posted May 20, 2005 That's a new classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted May 20, 2005 Share Posted May 20, 2005 He's got a lot of garbage in there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fritz Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Looks like he's pretty well hung. I figured dictators would be on the smallish side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Moneyball Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Briefs are so evil, this just proves it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boog Sciambi Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Briefs are so evil, this just proves it. 778733[/snapback] wait wait, so we have this guy imprisoned because he killed millions of people, yet he's going to sue an american corporation...what the f*** is wrong with this country. why can't they just hang the f***ing bastard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Texan Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Briefs are so evil, this just proves it. 778733[/snapback] wait wait, so we have this guy imprisoned because he killed millions of people, yet he's going to sue an american corporation...what the f*** is wrong with this country. why can't they just hang the f***ing bastard 778778[/snapback] because it violates the geneva convention and would really make bush guilty of severe war crimes himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest markotsay7 Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Briefs are so evil, this just proves it. 778733[/snapback] wait wait, so we have this guy imprisoned because he killed millions of people, yet he's going to sue an american corporation...what the f*** is wrong with this country. why can't they just hang the f***ing bastard 778778[/snapback] Exactly. This is why tribunals are needed. There's such a thing as too many criminal rights. A guy slaughters millions of people but can sue for this...and you know what, he'd win. Why wouldn't he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legacyofCangelosi Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 These pics are stupid. I think that the person who leaked them should be punished. Just b/c hes a murderous tyrant doesnt mean he has to be degraded in front of the whole world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarlinsContinueTo ShowDomi Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 I have no moral objection to seeing Saddam being shown like this, but the fact that it doesn't help with our post Abu Gharaib (sp?) image in the Middle East pretty much means that whoever leaked the photos should get punished to some moderate degree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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