The Command Post
Iraq
March 29, 2003
Chirac to Hague?

IDF radio says that an American Jewish organization "Judicial Watch" has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court and European police against the French president, on the suspicion that he aided in the creation of Iraq's nuclear program. The allegation is based on the 1975 picture, in which Mr. Chirac (than a PM) is seen visiting with Saddam Hussein (then DPM) at a French nuclear reactor.
The complaint also includes allegations against members of the French government of fraudelent activities in the management of the Iraqi economy in recent years.

Posted By Alisa at March 29, 2003 03:11 PM | TrackBack
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Huh? JudicialWatch is not a Jewish organization. Would you verify that the IDF radio really called it a Jewish organization?

Here is the JudicialWatch complaint:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/cases/95/chirac.htm

Gentlemen:

I. INTRODUCTION:

Judicial Watch, Inc. (hereinafter, “Judicial Watch”) is a non-profit, non-partisan, public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse. Judicial Watch requests that your organizations coordinate the conduct of an immediate and thorough investigation of the unlawful proliferation of nuclear technology, the unlawful trafficking of arms and military technology, and the violation of United Nations (U.N.) trade sanctions imposed after the 1991 Gulf War, as well as additional U.N. sanctions relating to the so-called “oil-for-food” program, by French government officials, politicians and corporations. In particular, we request an investigation and analysis, by means of forensic accounting, of financial contacts and dealings between Mr. Chirac’s “Rally for the Republic” (RPR) political party and government officials and/or corporations involved in the unlawful activity.

Based on our preliminary investigation, as well as recent press reports, there is sufficient evidence to implicate senior French political and governmental officials including, but not limited to, Mr. Jacques Chirac. These unlawful activities involve private persons, corporations and government officials from: France, Iraq, the Peoples’

Republic of China, and Syria. It is likely that several other parties and countries, unknown at this time, are also involved in the criminal conspiracy.

. . . .

Posted by: jerry at March 29, 2003 03:20 PM

Agreed. Judicial Watch has nothing to do with jewish interests and does not claim to be a jewish organization. The guy who founded it might be jewish, but so what?

Posted by: notmyrealname at March 29, 2003 03:22 PM

That's what it says on IDF radio's web site. Obviously, in this case they don't know what they are taliking about.

Posted by: Alisa at March 29, 2003 03:29 PM

Ha HA!

That's what you get when you sign into law dumbass UN resolutions that take away the soverignty of a nation.

Chirac.. Rot in 'ell... ribbit

Posted by: Mark at March 29, 2003 03:31 PM

Really, the universe truly is composed of irony.

Posted by: Meryl Yourish at March 29, 2003 04:02 PM

It would be a wonderful bit of irony if Chirac were tried by the ICC he helped set up independent of any rule of law or oversight but its own.

Posted by: John Anderson at March 29, 2003 04:04 PM

Well it seems judicial watch is after Iraq as well. I guess it's true; In the U.S. you can sue anyone!

JUDICIAL WATCH SLAPS SUBPOENA ON IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO UNITED NATIONS

TESTIMONY, DOCUMENTS SOUGHT ON IRAQ’S INVOLVEMENT IN OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTER ATTACK

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today served a subpoena for testimony and documents on Mohammed Al-Douri, who serves as Saddam Hussein’s ambassador to the United Nations. Judicial Watch is suing Iraq for victims of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, OK. A default judgment is pending against Iraq in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The suit alleges Iraqi government involvement in the conspiracy with Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to blow up the building. (A copy of the complaint is available on the Internet at www.judicialwatch.org.)

Posted by: Grace OMalley at March 29, 2003 04:13 PM

funny
who went to baghdad during iran-iraq war to shake hand with saddam and to reopen the embassy of america?
wasnt it the butcher rummy?
america itself has weaponed saddam
self made frankenstein now is against the master!

Posted by: pako at March 30, 2003 01:35 AM
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