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Dr. Curtis Doebbler, well-respected human rights lawyer and law professor,
can't get American media to tell the truth about the legal farce going on in
Bagdhad. He claims proceedings against the former Iraqi dictator have no merit
since initial invasion violated international law. He also says Hussein's court
appointed Iraqi attorney has been harrassed and had legal papers stolen by American
authorities.
The disgusting and biased American press has again let down the people,
distorting facts and slanting story lines, reminiscent of a state-controlled
media like existed in Nazi Germany.
FOX agents, disguised as reporters, but actually owing allegiance
to the Pentagon and the U.S. and Iraqi governments are crawling on land like
vipers, infecting airwaves with neo-con propaganda better described as outright
lies.
No better example exists than the recent slanted reporting by FOX, another
garbage media outlet called The Weekly Standard and all other big city dailies,
including the New York Times, regarding the events surrounding the upcoming
kangaroo court proceedings in the Saddam Hussein case.
The rule of law means absolutely nothing to these journalistic propagandists
and to Your Majesty President Bush, or as he is better known as “Your
Stupidity,” as he flaunts international justice with the illegal invasion
of Iraq as well as his utterly absurd legal handling of the Hussein case.
And just as the rule of law means nothing to “Your Stupidity”
and his appointed underlings, it carries little weight with the American press
who continues on a daily basis to perpetuate the lies and injustices of a neo-con
administration gone mad with power.
But fortunate for the few remaining fair-minded Americans intent on ousting
“Your Stupidity” from his royal thrown and preventing millions more
from dying worldwide from Nazi-like U.S. aggression, comes forward a distinguished
and well-respected international human rights attorney and professor, Dr. Curtis
Doebbler, to once and for all set the legal record straight.
Although he has attempted to do so countless times before, the unscrupulous
lying dogs parading as journalists, in the case of FOX and The Weekly Standard,
purposely slanted recent interviews with Dr. Doebbler, making it appear as if
justice was being carried out and the rule of law followed to the letter in
the Hussein case.
But nothing is farther from the truth, according to Dr. Doebbler,
in a case that defies all legal principles and, from day one, simply has made
no sense and a mockery out of international law. And what is even more troubling
is that when Dr. Doebbler told his story in the neo-con party line media outlets,
many of his statements were intentionally left out or misinterpreted to give
the sense Hussein’s defense attorneys were actually being given a fair
shot at representing their client.
But as absurd as the American’s government’s untenable legal position
remains in the initial Iraqi invasion, so it is equally absurd when it comes
to inept news reports about justice in Baghdad.
Not only did the FOX and The Weekly Standard slant the stories about Hussein’s
trial to suit “Your Stupidity’s” party line but these morally
deficient government agents carrying press cards have little desire to tell
the truth about a host of matters but, more importantly, about two very crucial
issues surrounding the case, which conclusively demonstrates a whiskey filled,
cowboy Texas courtroom would be far more appropriate then what’s actually
going on in Baghdad.
“The first thing I have to clear up from what the press has
reported is that neither I or Ramsey Clarke (former U.S. Attorney General) are
really representing or truly can be called Saddam Hussein’s attorneys,”
said Dr. Doebbler in a telephone conversation this week from New York, citing
Article 14 of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights as precedent,
a document “Your Stupidity” has never read or doesn’t even
know exists since law and its concepts are completely foreign to our President’s
feeble mind.
Dr. Doebbler points out that Article 14, a longstanding recognized international
law rule, mandates a defendant be given a right to a lawyer and the lawyer,
in turn, be given adequate facilities to prepare a defense. And since
Dr. Doebbler and Clarke have been given little, if any time, to even see or
visit with their client, Dr. Doebbler insists he cannot be termed or even called
the attorney representing Hussein.
“We are willing to represent Mr. Hussein. Mr. Clarke and I have a signed
power of representation from him,” said Dr. Doebbler. “But if you
do not have access to your client, I would rather have my little sister represent
me. And what is really ridiculous is that the news publications covering this
story always start out by saying numerous lawyers are representing him, but
this is totally wrong Totally wrong!”
Besides setting the record straight as to Article 14 violations, Dr. Doebbler
believes the announced government trial should not go forward since the tribunal
itself does not meet international law standards of impartiality and fairness.
“The court set up in Baghdad is not only biased, but it is incompetent
and totally lacking any type of legal credibility normally associated with international
cases,” said Dr. Doebbler. “As lawyers we hope the rule of law will
be respected and thus far this is not the case.
“It is my belief that the tribunal is illegal in the first place.
There is an overwhelming number of jurists and statesmen around the world, bound
by international law, who openly recognize the invasion of Iraq as a preemptive
strike and in violation of all sound principles of international law. And, it’s
important to note, that one cannot create legal rights out of an illegal act,
meaning what’s going in the Hussein trial has no legal merit to being
with.”
Another important fact about the Hussein trial never reported and ignored
by the American press concerns the illegal treatment and harassment of the only
so-called Iraqi court appointed attorney assigned officially by an illegal tribunal
to supposedly represent Hussein.
Kalel al Dolami, an Iraqi lawyer assigned to the Hussein case as the initial
legal contact in Baghdad, never has been allowed to visit with his client privately.
But what’s more shocking is that al Dolami has accused U.S. operatives
of outright harassment, including break-ins at his Baghdad home and destruction
and theft of legal documents related to the Hussein case.
Although Dr. Doebbler and al Dolami have tried to bring these violations to
the attention of the press and authorities, they have never surfaced in the
American media and never even been investigated thoroughly, with an eye towards
justice, by police authorities.
“They have attacked his house and stolen his legal papers, but it’s
never surfaced in the American press,” said Dr. Doebbler.
With all the injustices and blatant violations of law, including crimes against
al Dalami, Dr. Doebbler still holds out hope justice will be served even though
the chances look slim.
“As a lawyer, I can’t make predictions about what is going to
happen in a case, but I will not abandon the principles of law or the possibility
that justice will one day be served,” said Dr. Doebbler.
Dr. Doebbler has acted all over the world as an expert consultant and teacher
in the field of international human rights law and is currently working in the
Midle East as a law professor.
His clients have included an estimated two million internally displaced persons
in the Khartoum State, approximately 3,500 Ethiopian refugees in the Sudan,
dozens of political activists in the Sudan, the democratic Republic of the Congo,
Peru, Afghanistan as well as hundreds of other clients from countries too numerous
to mention.