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Originally Posted by Drakonix
But... I thought Iraq was already in a state of civil war. You said so.
Saddam is an Iraqi.
Saddam is the (former) "President" of Iraq.
How could handing him over to the Iraqi Government (his own country) constitute handing him over to an adversary?
Just because Saddam has been tried and convicted as a criminal, this (IMO) does not make his own country an "adversary" within international laws.
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Hardy har har
Saddam is going to be considered as a martyr. Isalmists take their martyrs very seriously. I consider sectarian violence the beginning of civil war, hang Saddam, Shiites and Sunnies are really gonna go at eachother's throath. If you would have bothered to read my previous post to you, you might have realised that the Sunnies are a minority in Iraq. The current gov is Shi'a, all things considered, since he was captured by the US army, he was a US prisonner of war. Handing him over to a Shi'a government is giving him to the hands of the adversary.