Brother-In-Law of New Saddam Judge Slain

The brother-in-law of the new judge presiding over Saddam Hussein's genocide trial was killed and his nephew was wounded in a shooting Friday in Baghdad, the latest deadly violence linked to proceedings against the former Iraqi leader.

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Saddam, Co-Defendants Go on Hunger Strike

After shouts, insults, arguments and walkouts, Saddam Hussein and three of his co-defendants unveiled a new show-stealing tactic Tuesday: They announced in court that they had gone on hunger strike.

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Saddam Trial Continues Despite Boycott

A female witness, testifying Wednesday at Saddam Hussein's trial, said she was stripped naked in prison, hung by her feet and kicked in the chest by the former Iraqi leader's half brother.

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By Malcom Lagauche

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Carsten Kofoed: In the so-called trial against the legitimate and illegally deposed President Saddam Hussein and seven other Iraqi top leaders at the Special Tribunal in Baghdad, which in December 2003 was set up by Paul Bremer, the US administrator of Iraq at that time, a "sen …

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Salah Al-Mukhtar: In the decision hand down on 1 September 2006, but not provided to the former Iraqi President's lawyers until just a few days ago, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that the "deprivation of liberty of Mr.

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David Hungerford: Many crimes against Iraq have been justified by the demonization of Saddam Hussein. Invasion was justified by claims that he possessed "weapons of mass destruction," had ties to al-Qaeda, and posed a threat to the territorial United States.

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The letter was written two weeks ago and published on Monday. Translation by LadyBird.

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A judicial source close to the Iraqi Criminal Court revealed that the judge of the Supreme Court in Saddam Hussein trial is not a judge and didn't exercise this profession ever in his life, "Majid Mohamed Aribi" was chosen with hurry to get rid of the former Judge Abdullah  …

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The U.S. military says the 69-year-old ex-president has been drinking sweet coffee and liquid nourishment and receiving psychological counselling to try to persuade him to eat.

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Curtis Doebbler, one of the international lawyers representing Saddam, said there is "an intentional effort ... by the United States government to intimidate us and to try to prevent us from even coming to the trial, much less in providing a defense."

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"These puppets in the Iraqi government that the Americans brought to power are helpless. They can't protect themselves or the Iraqi people.

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Najib al-Nuaimi, a former Qatari justice minister and member of the defence team, said 30 people, including former government members, would take the stand for the defence.

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In an open letter to The Economist, Curtis Doebbler (co-defence counsel to President Saddam Hussein) reveals the distance between fact and bias in Western reporting of the trial of Saddam Hussein.

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Saddam is now seeing the otherside. But one can't help but wonder if this trial can be held in Iraq and be fair. Should it? Nothing that Saddam did could be considered fair.

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