Iran Court Orders U.S. to Pay $600 Million

[cjbuchanan]

EHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian court has ruled the United States should pay $600 million in compensation for supplying ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) with chemical weapons, the official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday.

IRNA said the money in the case, brought by Iranian war veterans and disabled, should be paid to survivors of attacks on the town of Sardasht which borders Iraq (news - web sites).

Iraqi gas attacks killed thousands of Iranians and Iraqi Kurds in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Hundreds of thousands died on both sides and Iran has thousands disabled by chemical arms.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/iran_iraq_usa_dc

So will this make the news?

[wysimdnwyg]

1. That is effin PRICELESS!!!! - nt

[hang a left]

2. And on Yahoo nonetheless.

I wonder how many Americans know where Saddam got his gas.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. OMFG! Don't forget to go rate the story!

[maddezmom]

4. checkout DU thread: Germany & Iran in a Diplomatic Dispute

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x515118

Iran is fighting back

[freetobegay]

5. I can just hear Bush now

You & what Army!

[forgethell]

8. don't put me on *'s side, but

that's pretty much my reaction, too.

[Only Me]

6. Imagine

the legal implications this will have all over the world. This would be like a landmark ruling to other nations that have similar issues with us and/or other nations. It is like saying..If you contributed in anyway, anytime, to the destruction of someone else you will be held accountable. Does anyone know, historical, has anything like this ever happened before? Besides war crimes.

[Cocoa]

7. there's an important omission in this Reuters story

nowhere does it state the fact that the basic charge is true, the U.S. did in fact supply those weapons.

[Jacobin]

9. A kick

[cap]

10. can they name the companies or the government officials

in charge???

Rumsfeld, Cheney????