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Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka C;ape-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Ozeti Iraqi court sentences Saddam to death Dancing, and some violence, in streets By Kirk Semple BAGHDAD: An Iraqi special tribunal on Sunday convicted Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging for the brutal repression of a Shiite town in the 1980s. The five-judge panel also issued death sentences for two of his seven codefendants. As the chief judge read aloud the verdict, a defiant Hussein shouted, "Long live the people! Long live the Arab nation! Down with the spies!" He thrust his index finger emphatically into the air as he spoke, then repeatedly chanted, "God is greatl" The judge, Raouf Rasheed Abdul Rahman, tried to calm Hussein. "There's no point," Rahman told him. The verdict, under Iraqi law, was automatically submitted to an appellate court, which will begin its review within a month, officials said. Still, the verdict Sunday represented a moment of triumph and catharsis for many Iraqis after decades of suffering under Saddam's tyrannical rule. Spontaneous celebrations broke out throughout Iraq in spite of an aroundthe-clock curfew imposed on the capital and other regions. People fired pistols and assault rifles into the air in a common gesture of jubilation. Residents of Sadr City, a Shiite bastion in northeastern Baghdad, flooded the streets in defiance of the curfew, whooping and dancing and honking car horns. Even some Shiite police officers joined in the revelry, firing their weapons in the air. "I feel happy," said a 31-year-old Shiite shop owner, who was smoking apple-flavored tobacco on the sidewalk in Karrada, an upscale neighborhood in central Baghdad. "I think he got his punishment. There was no Iraqi house that didn't have damage because of Saddam Hussein." But a darker mood settled over predominantly Sunni Arab areas. Immediately following the verdicts, fighting broke out between gunmen and the Iraqi Army in the Sunni neighborhood of Adhamiya in northeastern Baghdad, according to an Interior Ministry officiaL American forces swarmed the area, however, suppressing the violence, the official reported. In the Sunni city of Samarra, a stronghold of support for the Sunni-led insurgency, hundreds of demonstrators marched' through the city's streets in violation of the curfew. They carried photographs of Saddam, who was born in the same region, and fired guns in the air in anger. "The ground will be burned," they chanted. They were escorted by Iraqi police officers, who provided some of the demonstrators with rides through the city, witnesses said. Iraqi and American security forces had been bracing for a violent reaction among Saddam's armed supporters, who constitute a significant corps within the insurgency. A ban on cars and pedestrians was imposed in the capital and other areas, Iraq's security forces were put on high alert and American jet fighters roared high above the capital throughout the day on Sunday. In a nationally televised address following the verdict, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki said that Saddam "is facing the punishment he deserves." "His sentence does not represent anything because executing him is not worth the blood he spilled," he said. "But it may bring some comfort to the families of the martyrs." In recent days, Maliki publicly expressed his hope that Saddam would receive the death sentence, saying it would help to dissipate the insurgency. The U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Khalilzad, hailed the verdict as "an important milestone in the building of a free society" in Iraq. "Although the Iraqis may face difficult days in the coming weeks, closing the book on Saddam and his regime is an opportunity to unite and build a better future," he said in a written statement. The long-awaited verdict on Sunday came nearly three years after Saddam was hauled from an underground hideaway by American troops, and more than a year after he and seven co-defendants first appeared in an Iraqi court to face charges of orchestrating what the prosecution called a "widespread and systematic persecution" of the townspeople of Dujail, 35 miles, or about 55kilometers, north of Baghdad. The case centered on the execution of 148 men and boys from the town after an alleged assassination attempt against Saddam by men firing from a nearby orchard on July 8, 1982. Saddam's lawyers contended at the trial that the would-be assassins were Iranian-backed Shiite militants, and that he was justified in ordering the crackdown on the town because Iraq was at war with Iran at the time. In the Dujail case, Saddam faced multiple charges for his involvement in the crimes. He was sentenced to the death penalty for willful killings, 10 years for forcible deportation and 10 years for torture. The five-judge tribunal also issued death sentences for two of his seven codefendants: Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother, who was head of Iraq's domestic intelligence agency; and Awad al-Bandar, president of Saddam's revolutionary court. Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former vice president under Saddam, was sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the crimes. Barzan and Ramadan were also convicted and sentenced for enforced deportation and torture. Ramadan was given an additional sentence for "other inhumane acts." Three local Baath Party officials - Abdullah Kadhim Ruweid, his son Mizher Abdullah Ruweid and Ali Dayeh Ali - were sentenced to 15years in prison for willful murder and 7 years for torture; the sentences will run concurrently. Another defendant and minor Baath party official, Mohammed Azawi Ali, was acquitted because of insufficient evidence. Prosecutors had argued for lesser sentences for those officials. Several of the defendants, including Saddam, were found not guilty for lack of evidence on the charge that they had committed "enforced disappearances." Like the verdicts and sentences against Saddam, the verdicts and sentences against Tikriti, Bandar and Ram- As the chief judge read the verdict aloud Sunday, Saddam shouted: "Long live the people! Long live the Arab nation! Down with the spies!" He thrust his index finger emphatically into the air as he spoke, then repeatedly chanted, "God is great!" 9
Revue de Presse-Press Review-Berhevoka (:ape-Rivista Stampa-Dentro de la Prensa-Baszn Dzeti adan will come under review by the appellate chamber of the trial court. There is no time limit for the appeal chamber's review, but Iraqi and American officials who work with the court said that the earliest realistic date for Saddam's execution, assuming it stood up to review, would be next spring. The court has been under growing political pressure from Maliki and other Shiite officials, who believe an execution sooner rather than later would help to suppress the elements of the insurgency that have held out for a return of Saddam to power. Saddam, along with six other defendants, is also being tried in a separate case in which they face charges of killing at least 50,000 people in the socalled Anfal military campaign in 1987 and 1988in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Prosecutors are preparing numerous other cases against Saddam, and the tribunal may decide to try him on some or all of the additional charges if it wants to create a full record of the former leader's crimes. - The New York TImes , Wael AI-Samuraei/European Pressphoto Agency Saddam supporters with flags and portraits Sunday in his home town ofTikrit. ftlllondt 7 novembre 2006 Lajustice irakienne condamne Saddam Hussein a mort L'ancien dictateur a explose : «Allez au diable, vous et votre tribunal de traitres ! » Le second proces, pour Ie genocide des Kurdes, continue a Bagdad BAGDAD ENVOYE I SPECIAL nitialementprevu pour la mi-octobre, Ieverdict du premier proces pour « crimes contre l'humanite »,lance i!y a treize mois, it l'encontre de Saddam Hussein et sept de ses lieutenants de l'ex-pouvoir baasiste, a ete rendu, dimanche 5 novembre it Bagdad, par Ie Haut Tribunal penal irakien. Un fonctionnaire a ete innocente de toute participation dans Ie meurtre, en 1982, de 148 civils chiites de la localite de Doujall. Trois autres anciens hierarques du parti Baas ont rer;u 15 annees de prison, l'ancien vice-president de la Republique, Taha Yassine Ramadan, a ete condamne it perpetuite, et les trois derniers prevenus, dont Saddam Hussein, son demi-frere Barzan AI-Tikriti et l'ancien president du « tribunal revolutionnaire» du Baas, Awad Ahmed AI-Bandar, subiront la peine capitale. Ramsey Clark, l'ancien ministre de la justice americain qui conseille les avocats de l'ancien dictateur et qui a, d'entree de jeu, denonce «l'etrange concomitance» du verdict avec les elections legislatives americaines du 7 novembre, a ete expulse de l'audience, des son ouverture. Dans la soiree, deux chaines privees de television tenues par des financiers sunnites et qui s'interrogeaient notamment, it l'instar d'Amnesty International et de Human Rights Watch, sur la « validite juridi1Jue » de ce proces au cours duquel trois avocats de la defense ont ete assassines, trois juges congedies et une centaine de temoins de la defense non auto rises it deposer, ont ete interdites de diffusion par Ieministere de l'interieur pour « incitation d la violence». La scene de ce qui pourrait bien etre l'ultime defi de Saddam Hussein face it sesjuges a ete coupee au montage des cassettes video par Ie tribunal et diffusees vingt-cinq minutes apres que la sentence de mort eut ete prononcee. Mais les deux douzaines dejournalistes presents derriere une baie vitree dans la salle de presse du tribunal, qui siege sous protection americaine au creur de la « zone verte » ultrafortifiee de Bagdad, ont pu voir et entendre l'ancien dictateur hurler et trembler de rage quand, sur ordre du juge, deux gardes se sont saisis de lui pour Ie mettre debout - ce qu'i! refusait de faire - pour entendre Ie verdict. « Ne me tordez pas les bras! », cria Ie prevenu par deux fois, alors que Iejuge Raouf Rachid Abdel Rahman, un Kurde, elevait la voix pour se faire entendre dans Iechaos ambiant. Quand Ie magistrat prononr;a enfin la sentence de « mort par pendaison », Saddam Hussein, qui avait reclame en juillet d'etre fusille « comme un combattant» plutot que pendu comme un vulgaire criminel, explosa encore : « Allez au diable, vous et votre tribunal de traftres !» Tandis que les gardes l'emmenaient vers Ie blinde qui devait Ie reconduire dans sa prison americaine a l'aeroport de Bagdad, l'ancien rlUs lacha une derniere diatribe : « A bas l'occupant! A bas les traftres !Allah est plus grand qu'eux! Vive Ie peuple irakien !» Derniere tirade pour la posterite? II n'est pas sur que Ie tyran, qui doit avoir 70 ans Ie 28 avril 2007, reparaisse jamais en public. Le second proces pour « tentative de genocide» qui lui est intente au nom des dizaines de milliers de civils kurdes abattus, tortures et parfois gazes, comme a Halabja durant la campagne militaire dite d'Anfal en 1987-1988, a certes commence Ie 21 aout et est loin d'etre terrni- " n'est pas sur que Ie tyran, qui doit avoir 70 ans Ie 28 avril 2007, reparaisse jamais en public 10
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