"The president considers the decree he issued as a jihad to save the state," he said.
According to the decree, he will not be extradited although he is wanted on drug charges in the United States.
He continues under intense pressure to rescind the decree he used to suspend the Constitution and appoint a new Supreme Court.
We approve his decision as to which claims required adjudication, and likewise we approve the decree he recommended for the government claims he did decide.
Mr. Wahid's spokesman retorted from the palace, "The president considers the decree he issued as a jihad to save the state".
If Mr. Mazumder violates the decree, he will be subject to a series of escalating fines and the termination of the company's exemption from the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the federal law that governs the inspections.
With the decree, he puts into action what he promised last year when he approved a Vatican tribunal to judge bishops accused of covering up or failing to prevent abuse of minors.
He noted that while Hess accepted responsibility for the many decrees he had signed, he said these matters were part of the internal workings of a sovereign state and thus outside the purview of a war crimes trial.
Morsi spokesman Yasser Ali did not amend the Thursday decrees; he simply said he was clarifying them.
Still, Mr. García acknowledged in a speech late Wednesday that his government had made a crucial mistake by not including native groups in discussions over the decrees before he issued them.
