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2007-08-23 Iraq

Judge ejects 2 Saddam aides from courtroom

The chief judge dismissed two former Saddam Hussein aides from the courtroom for unruly behaviour on Wednesday on the second day of a trial over the brutal crushing of a 1991 rebellion by Shiite Muslims.

The order came as a 76-year-old former Shiite lawmaker testified that he was falsely imprisoned for months in the aftermath of the uprising and described fellow inmates being carried back to jail in blankets after hours of torture rendered them unable to walk. I was later released because of the presidential pardon, but my life was already destroyed. I was dismissed from the parliament. My cotton was destroyed by the army shelling and my house was damaged, Kamil Kanoun Abu al-Heil recalled. Al-Heil denied that he was part of the uprising, pointing out that he was a member of Saddams rubber-stamp parliament. I was part of the regime. No way I could have participated in the uprising, he said.

In the middle of Wednesdays session, chief judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa ordered former Republican Guards commander Maj Gen. Iyad Fathi al-Rawi - who led the 1988 offensives at the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war - to leave the courtroom for not sticking to the rules of the court.

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IYAD FATHI AL RAWI	Iraqi Baath Party
judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa
Kamil Kanoun Abu al-Heil

Posted by Fred 2007-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Baath Party

#1 This would be the third of six cases on which the US was assisting the tribunal. For obvious reasons it is one with high political profile. The other cases are the marshes case, the Kuwait invasion case, and the special ("revolutionary") courts case (though the top dog of that case, I think, met his end already in the opening Dujayl case). The Iraqis always claimed to be investigating additional cases without our help -but we usually were skeptical about this (and hoped it wasn't true, given our expectations of the work that would be done, uh, "independently").

Posted by Verlaine 2007-08-23 01:43|| 2007-08-23 01:43|| Front Page Top

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