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Article: Chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial submits resignation
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- January 15, 2006
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QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-15-2006
Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's trial has submitted his resignation after becoming fed up with criticism that he had let the proceedings spin out of control, a court official said.
But it wasn't clear if Rizgar Mohammed Amin's resignation on Saturday had been accepted amid behind-the-scenes efforts to change his mind.
Amin is the head of a five-judge tribunal overseeing the case against Saddam and seven co-defendants for the deaths of more than 140 Shiite Muslims in the town of Dujail in 1982 in retaliation for an assassination attempt.
The chief prosecutor in Saddam's trial, Jaafar al-Mousawi, ...