The verdict date is set for Nov. 5th. In an effort to be unbiased, I tried to find when this date was set and by whom, but I couldn't find anything on it.

Can anyone shed light on this, in terms of when and/or why the date was set for Nov. 5th, and by what parties/groups/officials?

10/29/2006 1:06:17 PM

It might have been the court!

10/29/2006 1:07:14 PM

It might. Like I said, Im looking for who & when.

10/29/2006 1:09:16 PM

what does it matter when the date is? just curious.

10/29/2006 1:12:25 PM

November 5th is Hussein's birthday, and they figured it would save everybody the trouble of having to come over once for a party and once for a trial if they did them together.

10/29/2006 1:12:55 PM

They heard that Saddam was planning to blow up Parliament so they made sure to keep him occupied that day.

10/29/2006 1:18:11 PM

did you even try?

multiple hits on google for "saddam court date"

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10406136

Quote :

" BAGHDAD - A judge trying Saddam Hussein for the killing of 148 Shi'ite villagers in the 1980s will set a date tomorrow for a verdict in a case that carries the maximum penalty of death by hanging, court officials said. A year after the case opened in a US-backed courtroom in Baghdad, chief judge Raouf Abdel Rahman will hold a closed session to review witness testimonies and evidence and announce a final date for a verdict for former Iraqi president Saddam and seven of his top lieutenants for crimes against humanity. "The judge needs to review procedural and administrative issues and set a final date to announce the verdict," chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi told Reuters today. "The verdict is not tomorrow. There will be no defendants, no lawyers. I think the verdict will be 20 days from tomorrow." Prosecutors have asked for the death penalty to be imposed if Saddam is found guilty in the killing of 148 Shi'ites after an attempt on his life in the village of Dujail in 1982. Saddam is also on trial separately on charges of genocide for a military operation against the country's ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s that killed tens of thousands. Saddam, 69, has acknowledged in court that he ordered trials that led to execution of dozens of Shi'ites after the assassination attempt but said he acted within the law. Iraqi law states an execution must be by hanging. Saddam has said he deserves to meet this fate by firing squad rather than the gallows. But any execution could be delayed by lengthy appeals and by the up to a dozen other cases the toppled leader could face. Saddam struck a typically defiant tone in an open letter dictated to his chief lawyer Khalil Dulaimi during a four-hour meeting yesterday in his prison. Saddam said Iraqis should put aside differences and set only one goal -- to drive US troops out of Iraq. "Victory is at hand but don't forget that your near-term goal is confined to liberating your country from the forces of occupation," Saddam said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Sunday. Saddam has dismissed the Iraqi High Tribunal, set up by a US occupying administration after the 2003 invasion to oust him, as a sham. He has said a guilty verdict has already been concocted by his political enemies now in power. Prosecutors in the Dujail trial have also asked for the death penalty for three other co-accused, including Barzan al-Tikriti, Saddam's former intelligence chief and half-brother. The trial, which US and Iraqi officials had hoped would project a new image of democracy in Iraq, has been marred by the killing of three defence lawyers, a number of hunger strikes by Saddam and the resignation of a previous judge, who accused the Shi'ite-led government of political pressure. Some international legal groups have said raging violence between Saddam's fellow minority Sunnis and majority Shi'ites, and an unrelenting Sunni insurgency, makes a fair trial almost impossible. They have called for a trial to be held in a third country. - REUTERS "

10/29/2006 2:05:01 PM

Quote :

"Saddam said Iraqis should put aside differences and set only one goal -- to drive US troops out of Iraq. "

Sounds like Saddam is a Democrat. (Or does it sound like the Democrats are the Party of Saddam?)

10/29/2006 2:58:28 PM

"We've never been stay the course"

10/29/2006 2:59:06 PM

i dont know much about catholocism, which saint do i need to bury in my yard so the magic will help the trial go well?

10/29/2006 3:01:55 PM

Its the New Orleans Saints...you're welcome

10/29/2006 3:18:51 PM

^^ Sorry it took so long to reply, I had to look it up in the Rituale Romanum. Here's what you do. First, you must make four very large splinters, about 6 inches in length each, from pure olive wood, preferably blessed by the Pope. Then, after lighting nine candles in a circle, you must impale each of your testicles twice, in a cross pattern. Keep them that way until the trial is over. And do not let the candles go out or your must start all over.


[Edited on October 29, 2006 at 11:56 PM. Reason : for heavens sake dont let the candle burn out]

10/29/2006 11:55:11 PM

^people actually believe this nonsense?

10/30/2006 12:07:19 AM

Hitler was a Christian.

10/30/2006 12:19:02 AM

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

10/30/2006 2:37:22 AM

Quote :

"^people actually believe this nonsense?"

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAAHAHHA##HAHM<NVD

Quote :

"Hitler was a Christian."

Professing Christianity != being a Christian.
but yes, Hitler was indeed brought up in a Christian way. Although, his grandmother was Jewish or something, so as Salisbury will tell you, this is where it all went horribly wrong.

[Edited on October 30, 2006 at 7:52 AM. Reason : .]

10/30/2006 7:50:45 AM