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07/08/2004:

"Islamist Gunmen Threaten to Behead Saddam Lawyers"

Reuters
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Brandishing assault rifles and grenade launchers, masked Islamists threatened in a taped message on Thursday to behead any lawyers defending deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

``Saif al-Allah (The Sword of God) group, belonging to the Islamic Jihad, warns all those who defend the criminal file of the cowardly criminal Saddam ... that we will sever your necks before you arrive,'' one gunman read from a piece of paper.

The gunman, from a previously unknown group, said in the tape given to Reuters that the warning was for ``the Iraqi, Arab and foreign lawyers who have taken on the case of the criminal Saddam.''

...The seven gunmen, faces hidden by checkred head-dresses, said they would bring God's justice down on the heads of anyone who sought to defend the former president, accused of gassing Iraq's Kurds, crushing a Shi'ite uprising, and condemning countless Iraqis to death in his dreaded torture chambers.

``We will sentence you with cutting off your heads,'' one of the gunmen said, as they all drew out long glistening blades. full article

This is all getting to be some pretty bad cinema.