"Hicks shown Saddam death photo" (Guantanamo Bay inmate)

[Swagman]

Hicks shown Saddam death photo

By Peter Mitchell in Los Angeles
February 01, 2007 12:49pm

"AUSTRALIAN terror suspect David Hicks and other Guantanamo inmates were shown a photo of a dead Saddam Hussein hanging from a rope at his execution, his lawyers said today.
Photos of the former Iraqi leader's trial were also shown to the inmates at the US military's prison in Cuba.

Articles were also allegedly given to Guantanamo inmates detailing the execution of people in Iraq, including the decapitation of one person.

Hicks's lawyers said the photos of Saddam's trial were included on a poster, accompanied by a statement reading: "Because Saddam chose not to co-operate and not tell the truth, because he thought by lying he would get released, for that reason he was executed."

Hicks's lead American defence lawyer, Joshua Dratel, said: "Displaying photos of condemned men to those who may be facing capital charges can only be interpreted as an attempt to intimidate and compel submission under a threat of death and mentally torture an already abused detainee population."

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21152926-2,00.html

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1. Is that to give potential members of Al Qaeda a hard on?

Was it not Bin Laden's Mujahideen that offered to defend Saudi Arabia from Saddam's incursion? Was it not him getting refused that pissed him off about the US military presence in his holy land? If there any reason a member of Al Qaeda should give a fuck about the death of Saddam?

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3. Yes. Yes. Yes. No,

...other than to be happy about it.

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Idiots.

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2. Why would these men in chicken coops give a shit about Sadaam.

I thought the were Osama been forgotten freaks.

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4. Aside from the human rights violation,

That just makes us look even more ignorant and stupid.

Were they supposed to be sad to see their enemy swing?