| Show A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday March 29 2004 Q World I I DstraeDi trepoirtt tolastts sTm S'lWWia' 'ViV !: Saddam rs lawyer criticizes Bush i - ' ' - ’ 19 r (FaunlUy PARIS (AP) — A French lawyer who claims tobe representing Saddam Hussein said Sunday he doesn't think there will be a trial for a long time and criticized President Bush for pronouncing the former dictator guilty of atrocities Jacques Verges said he believes the United States has violated the Geneva Conventions' on several counts in its '' detention of Saddam and said the world must wait for a trial to determine what Saddam did wrong “We know that Mr Bush has said he’s guilty” Verges told Associated Press Tension News “But what does that mean? Mr Bush is not a judge We cannot accept him as a judge He is an enemy of Saddam Hussein" Verges known for taking on clients including terrorists and a Nazi leader said he didn't think Saddam's trial would happen “before a long time” By the most conservative DDutoBDigeDUce JERUSALEM (AP) — A claim by Israeli intelligence that Iraq pnihahly had weapons of mass ilcMruction was based hugely on speculation not fact parliamentary investigators said in a report Sunday They dismissed suggestions that Israel tried to push its Western allies to war ilie report also faulted the intelligence agencies for failing to detect Libya's chemical and nuclear programs calling the lapse "intolerable" document delivThe ered!! rare rebuke to the aiun-try'- s highly regarded intelligence community which has taken pride in its ability to penetrate hostile countries It also revealed the limitations of Israel's intelligence-gatlierin- g bodies respected and feared around (lie world “The lessons of the war in Iraq are a w arning light that the intelligence estimates could be turned from a working iastni- Incut into a useless one and that there is a danger that they could once again berevealed in the future to be standing on shaky XO-pa- ground" the report concluded The report capped an eight-mon- th investigation launched invasion of after the US-le- d Iraq a year ago The hier panel interviewed 70 witnesses among them Prime Minister Ariel Sharon his defense minister and the milisix-me- tary chief Ahead of the March 2003 invasion Israeli military leaders warned of Iraq's weapons capabilities although they said the probability of an attack on Israel was low Nonetheless they ordered citizens to ready gas masks and recommended that each home have a scaled room to protect againslchemical attack — strengthening the perception that Israeli intelligence had a dear picture of Iraq's weapons capability Despite the criticism the report stressed that the gence agencies did not deliberately mislead Israeli officials or try' to push the United States into war against Iraq a longtime Israeli archenemy AP photo ance to pilgrims and tourists in St Peter’s Square noting that his message for Lent — the solemn weeks leading up to Easter called on the faithful to put children at the center of their atten- lion ' He said children around the world were victims of sickness AIDS and hunger — as well as a “horrible form of violence’’ in which they are enlisted as child soldiers “They undergo a scandalous double aggression: Theyare made victims and at the same time protagonists of war overwhelmed in the hatred of adults” John Paul said “Deprived of everything they sec their future threatened by a nightmare that's difficult to get out of” Sunday opened convoy carrying Iraq's minister of public works killing a driver coalition and a bodyguard and injuring two others the US-le- d said The minister Nisreen Berwari was unharmed Iij another attack in the same city' Mosul gunmen killed a Briton and a Canadian who were working as security guards for foreign: electrical engineers at a power station The ambush US-le- d recon-- : appeared to be part of a campaign to undermine struction efforts' in Iraq The attacks highlighted the tenuous security situation in Iraq’s city once a prime recruiting ground for the officer corps of Saddam Hussein's military -- Pope child soldiers in world conflicts Sunday saying they were victims twice over and were overwhelmed by “the hatred of adults" John Paul made the comments in his weekly Sunday appear-- - HabtlrisMsiUdabW feHMMwhroarclientneeds! 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