It was not immediately clear if the shooting was related to Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, who took over the Saddam trial last week, or if it was another of the sectarian attacks that have been plaguing Baghdad
Because you see in the renovated Baghdad, where 40 000 US troops, having fixed all the schools, have gone on to construct ornate universities that now ring the city, it could be unprecedented to have someone bruise the civil code by hauling fellows from their vehicle and shooting them.
Baghdad society frowns upon such things.
However in another Baghdad not too far removed. A dictator is being tried by his third judge and it's 5 years after he was deposed and the occupying power remarkably have not driven the prisoner insane via cunning and painful near death experiences. A civil war (as if!) has been peculating round 50-100 bodies a night, over 100 of the garbage collectors alone have been shot since the occupation. In this bullet riddled climate 'it is not immediately clear' if the judge was targeted by a resistance quick, resourced, and opportunistic to kill a new judge in his first week of presiding, or it was simply bad luck given the likelihood that you are more likely to be pulled from your car and shot in Baghdad than have a bird @!$%# on you or share a lift (do they have any left?) with a 7 ft scanty stiletto clad black transvestite.
Neither option says anything good for American Foreign Policy which all but a deluded few recognise as a careening shambles. Human dignity has been clarified this week, it is no longer vague (and it's conveniently retroactive) thus on the week I get my green card and join you, America certifies itself vaguely human.
See also this link: http://jizzz.newsvine.com/_news/2006/09/28/378385-is-saddam-hussein-getting-a-fair-trial-in-baghdad
Is Saddam Hussein getting a fair trial in Baghdad?
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