The accused should not be compelled to come to the court if his lawyer was absent.

If I had wanted I wouldn't have referred them [the accused villagers] to the revolutionary court. I did refer them to the revolutionary court. And they were tried according to the law.

You know me, because you are an Iraqi, ... I don't recognize the parties that appointed you to this court.

I won't answer to this so-called court...Who are you? What are you? The occupation is illegitimate, ... I retain my constitutional rights as the president of Iraq.

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

We do not know if they would do the same thing whether any of the planners and perpetrators of the operation were found to have lived or had the nationality of a Western country? ... Or whether the intention and the designs are already made against an Islamic party?