WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Judge who sympathized with Saddam is replaced
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(Baghdad, Iraq-AP) September 19, 2006 - A government spokesman in Baghdad confirms that the chief judge at Saddam Hussein's genocide trial is being replaced.
The spokesman says Iraq's prime minister exercised his right under court regulations to transfer the judge to another, higher court.
A court source says the transfer apparently resulted from the judge's behavior toward Saddam. He was seen as being too friendly to the former Iraqi leader - even going so far as to say last week that he didn't think Saddam had been a "dictator." The judge told the court that the people who surrounded Saddam while he was in power made him look like a dictator.
Prosecutors had asked for the judge to be replaced after he allowed Saddam to lash out at Kurdish witnesses.
According to the source, the judge is being replaced by a Shiite Arab who was his deputy in the trial.
Posted 4:58pm by Chantelle Janelle
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