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Article: Chief judge in Saddam genocide trial is replaced
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 20, 2006
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide
trial was replaced Tuesday amid complaints from Shiite and Kurdish
officials that he was too easy on the deposed Iraqi leader.
It was the second time that a chief judge was changed while Saddam
was on trial; in each case there were accusations that Saddam was
allowed too much leeway in court.
Abdullah al-Amiri was replaced on the five-member panel by his
deputy in the trial, Mohammed al-Uraibiy, a court official said. The
new chief judge is a Shiite Arab, as is al-Amiri.
The Iraqi High Tribunal, the country's supreme court, sought the
change and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki approved it.
An attorney defending senior ...