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Article: Saddam's lawyers demand removal of new chief judge
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- Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers are
demanding that the new chief judge be removed before they will end
their boycott of the trial, which resumes today after a stormy
session where the former president was tossed out.
Khalil al-Dulaimi and Khamis al-Obeidi said they have written to
the Iraqi High Tribunal to demand that Raouf Rasheed Abdel-Rahman,
who was named chief judge last week, be removed from the current
trial and any other legal proceedings against Saddam.
Otherwise, they would not attend any more sessions, they said. Al-
Dulaimi also said Saddam would boycott the trial Wednesday.
But chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Mousawi said Saddam and the seven
other defendants ...