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Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Hussein To Death Has Been Executed By ISIS, Local Media Reports
Back in 2006, after the second US invasion of Iraq culminated if not with the discovery of the WMDs (which were the pretext for the invasion in the first place), but the unearthing (literally) and kangaroo court trial of Saddam Hussein, the US was quick to announce "mission accomplished." Recent events have made a mockery of that claim, however what is truly the straw that broke the back of poetic justice, to mix metaphors, are reports from local media that as part of its blitz-campaign to take over northern Iraq, ISIS found and the promptly executed Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman, the judge who sentenced Saddam to death: a death which to many was the crowning moment of the second US invasion of Iraq, and the confirmation of successful US foreign policy.
It goes without saying that if true, the murder of the man who indirectly did the US bidding in slamming the book shut on the Saddam regime (and with it US claims of Iraqi "liberation") and was responsible for Saddam's death, means the last "Mission Accomplished" posted can now be safely taken down.
As LiveLeak first reported, Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman was the replacement chief judge of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal's Al-Dujail trial of Saddam Hussein in 2006. His background, from Wikipedia:
Abd al-Rahman was an ethnic Kurd from Halabja, the site of the 1988 Halabja poison gas attack. He replaced Rizgar Mohammed Amin as chief judge on 23 January 2006. Amin had resigned after being criticised in the Iraqi media for appearing "too soft" on the defendants by allowing them to speak aloud in court without being recognized.
After Amin's resignation, Abd al-Rahman headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal during the rest of the trial of Saddam Hussein for genocide, and when it sentenced him to death. He also sentenced to death some of his top aides.
In December 2006, Abd al-Rahman took his family to Britain on a travel visa, and three months later applied for asylum. He later cancelled his application.
In 16 June 2014, Abd al-Rahman was arrested by ISIS rebels during 2014 Northern Iraq offensive. Two days later, it was reported that ISIS captured and executed him.
More details from Almesryoon.com, google translated.
There were reports the execution of Iraqi judge, Raouf Abdel-Rahman, who spent the same judgment on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to confirmed the pages on the social networking site, without official confirmation from the Iraqi government.
The pages on social networking sites, including Page MP Jordanian Khalil Attieh on the site "Facebook" to "revolutionaries Iraqis arrested him and sentenced him to death in retaliation for the death of the martyr Saddam Hussein," he said, adding that Rauf tried to escape from Baghdad after wearing uniforms dancers.
She page Izzat al-Douri, vice-president Saddam Hussein, the "Facebook" to the rebels Iraqis were able to arrest the Kurdish judge Rauf Rashid, who issued a death sentence against the former Iraqi leader, which is currently in the "grip of the soldiers of the Islamic State and the men of the Baath Party."
She page address, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, "Judge Rauf Rashid in the grip of Mujahideen equipped Aahalki neck", in reference to al-Maliki, also falling in the hands of insurgents.
Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman presided over the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, the successor to the judge Rizgar Amin, following the latter's resignation in protest against foreign interference in the work of the court. Following the verdict on Saddam hanging out in the October 5, 2006, and was appointed justice minister in the Kurdistan Regional Government.
Although he was seen as an advocate of human rights, but he faced charges because of the way his administration for sessions trial of Saddam and the symbols of his regime, because Thamlh defendants, for being a city of Halabja, which came to the bombing of a chemical at the end of the eighties.
Over the past week, fell several cities in northern Iraq, in the forefront of Mosul, and Tikrit, Salahuddin province, in the hands of groups of armed Sunni, led by the organization "Daash", after the withdrawal of army troops, in moves considered leaders tribal Sunni "popular revolution Sunni against injustice and sectarian government (Prime Minister outgoing Nuri) al-Maliki, the Shiite, "while the frequency of the authorities as" attacks from terrorist groups."
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It’s all for Israel
by MIKE WHITNEY
Excerpts:
“It is no longer plausible to argue that ISIS was a result of unintentional screw ups by the US. It is a clear part of a US strategy to break up the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Hezbollah alliance. Now that strategy may prove to be a total failure and end up backfiring, but make no mistake, ISIS IS the strategy.”
- Lysander, Comments line, Moon of Alabama
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They want to partition the country consistent with an Israeli plan that was concocted more than three decades ago. The plan was the brainstorm of Oded Yinon who saw Iraq as a serious threat to Israel’s hegemonic aspirations, so he cooked up a plan to remedy the problem.
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The only reason to dissolve Iraq, is Israel. Israel does not want a unified Iraq. Israel does not want an Iraq that can stand on its own two feet. Israel wants to make sure that Iraq never remerges as a regional power. And there’s only one way to achieve that goal, that is, to follow Yinon’s prescription of “breaking up Iraq …along ethnic/religious lines …so, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul."
This is the blueprint the Obama administration is following. The US gains nothing from this plan. It’s all for Israel.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/20/its-all-for-israel/
http://kennysideshow.blogspot.com/2014/06/isis-oh-isis.html?showComment=...
re It's All For Israel
That should be apparent to even a glow-worm by now.
A good war in the middle east would also give a much needed alternative explanation (since there is no inflation) for the unexplained increase in food prices and the inevitable increase at the pumps.
"It is a clear part of a US strategy to break up the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Hezbollah alliance."
That doesn't fit too well.
I can see how Israel benefits from breaking up Iraq, but recent events have actually drawn these three countries closer together AND brought Russia in on their side. If the strategic goal is as your quoted author claims, it appears to be backfiring. Also, the USG is wanting to do a deal with Iran to help sort out Iraq. That will make Iran more influential in the M/E, not less.
Hey Dummies,
They, the CIA ISIS bullshit group killed him to make you think they really are a homegrown, rougue, "terr." network. They fuckin' off'd the guy to support their psy-op hollywood circus fraud. Do you want your own government to do this? Tell your stupid assed representatives to get the fuck out of Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, and every other bumfuck shithole.
1 day ago
Sent 49 personal letters to the Senators .... Guess what? Not a peep, not one letter back. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG-G8LLr38fQUNZU8K0t-EA/videosWe could use ISIS in DC.
#BulletInHisHead
#GrassyKnoll
Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you.
they are stealing iraqs oil with the help of pox proxies the kurds and now
more of the satanic usual.
Israel strikes Syrian targets in retaliation at boy's deathhttp://www.dw.de/israel-strikes-syrian-targets-in-retaliation-at-boys-de...
'al-Maliki is correct for not trusting any Sunni, with `0ne-in-Five`having ties to Suddam's 'Ba`ath Party... responsible for Shi`ite and Kurdish Genocide in Iraq since pre-1979?'
"The Syria-Iraqi Baa`th party and its Nazi beginnings" by George Kerevan http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/baath.html
Ref: "Genocide in Iraq" http://www.int-review.org/terr35a.html (*Note: Bottom page navigate to all articles of interest regarding <- 'Iraq' ->)
"FactualWorld-- 'Military History of Iraq'" http://www.factualworld.com/article/Military_history_of_Iraq
"Iraq, 1917" by Robert Fisk http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6337.htm
"Middle-East Timeline -- 1901 - 2011/2012 'Oil discovered in Iran (Persia, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia)" http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/asia/middleeast/metimeln_ext.htm
"Iraq Timeline Part III : Islamic Iraq & British Colonialism and Influence" http://www.middleeastfellowship.org/learn/iraq/3 **Note: Iraq /4/5/6/7/8)
"The Iraq Republic (1958-68)" http://www.potiori.com/Iraq_Republic_(1958%E2%80%931968).html
and lastly Cheney's (the Radicals) NYT's Op-Ed today: "The Corporate Profile of Hallibuton" http://www.Corporatewatch.org/company-profiles/halliburton
Quotes Pgs 86-7 "Generation's End" c.2010 by Scott L. Malcomsom*** "Dick (the Radical Chicken`Hawk extraordinaire !) " Cheney had been in college, then graduate school as the war in Vietnam escalated (University students were exempt from the draft). In 1969, at the age of twenty-eight, Cheney became an aide to Donald Rumsfeld and continued with him as Rumsfeld moved from post-to-post in the Nixon Administration. Paul wolfowitz, now deputy SoD-- Rumsfeld's number two-- was also a student from America's earliest involvement in Vietnam to 1972, when President Nixon was pushing for peace. Among Wolfowitz's students (in political science) at Yale in 1973 was Louis Libby, now Dick Cheney's chief of staff and national security advisor. Just as Rumsfeld and Cheney did a few years earlier, Wolfowitz and Libby became close friends. Three of the four men served in the Ford administration, Rumsfeld as WH Chief of Staff and then as Sec.of Def. (SoD). Cheney served as Rumsfeld senior aide and then succeeded him as chief of staff. They were and remained Washington insiders. Yet all of them shared a radical cast of mind that was unusual for government carreer men: they believed the U.S. could, and probably should use its power aggressively to make the world a better place" end quotes Ps. This book is excellent with the author holding nothing back for the Radical Neo-Con's, ie. the Cheney's who use patriotism to raped America's coffer's-- a true Imperialist Capitalist Traitor, with only the Top 0.0001% benefitting!!!
jmp
thankyou Tyler Oh, BTW... this has all to do with the Ba`ath & ISIS!
Finally -- Pepe Escobar @ Atimes http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MID-01-200614.html "Burn, Men in Black, burn" or as I call them, 'The Ba`ath Black ISIS? ("BBISIS)'
What is less dangerous position?
to be America's muppet or to be Amewrica's enemy? he is now silenced and cannot talk in the hands of ISIS. CIA arranged also Hastings and others, who like to talk too much.
Oil and Gold ETF breaking out. Could it mean we are in the last leg of the bull market?
http://edgepip.com/weekend-charts-and-setups-potential-movers-and-new-br...
Saddam had to be rushed to execution.....he had damning information on the US, including our approval and providing the nerve gas to kill the Kurds.....and then "Osama Bin Laden" HAD to be buried at sea-no autosy.....so as to cover the fact that he had died way back in Dec, 2001
The whole world bright red now being dragged up with yet another magical US futures rally, Gold and Silver green to red, Dow futures rise 40 points , usual garbage
Family of Raouf Abdul Rahman contacted #Rudaw headquarters confirming to us that Judge Rahman was still alive despite @MailOnline claims.