Saddam was not an enemy of the Shiites

Carsten Kofoed, Free Iraq Blog of Denmark

At the illegitimate "court" of the occupying power, President Saddam Hussein is charged with the execution of 148 Shiites following an attempted murder of him in Dujail in 1982. In accordance with existing Iraqi law, they were sentenced to death after having admitted, according to the judge, that they were working for Iran, which Iraq was at war with at the time. Death sentence for treason and attempted murder of heads of state is not uncommon.

 

The occupying power and the Shiites of the puppet regime, backed by and imported from Iran, are using the Dujail case as sectarian fuel. But Saddam did not persecute the Shiites as a group. They made up the majority of the governing Baath Party and held high civil and military positions in the state. For instance, the Shiite Sadoun Hammadi is the person, who for the longest period of time has held the position as foreign minister of Baathist Iraq, whose powerful oil ministers have predominantly been Shiites. During the war against Iran, the Deputy Minister of Defence and several leading military cadres were Shiites as were a number of Saddam’s advisers. Baathist repression of the Shiites is another lie, which is meant to justify the occupation and partition of Iraq.

 

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