Saturday, March 18, 2006

Saddam H.

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syed asadullah said...

Iraqi Judge Recalls Saddam Hussein's Trial as a Turning Point: Unassuming Jurist Has Been at Centre Of Major Cases

Saddam Hussein's survival instincts were not dulled by prison, according to one Iraqi judge who faced the former president in a courtroom and recalls his cunning and rhetorical posturing.

"Are you an American or a foreign judge?" Raid Juhi Hamadi al-Saedi remembered Hussein quizzing him during a pre-trial hearing in July 2004.

The youthful judge was unfazed by the self-styled Sword of the Arabs.

Nora Boustany of the Washington Post Foreign Service profiles the Iraqi Judge.
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