HOSTILE JUDGE MUST GO

 

Khalil al-Dulaimi, Saddam’s lawyer, in a statement published hours before the trial was due to resume, laid out 11 conditions for the defense team to end their boycott.

  

Among those demands were the sacking of the judge and the switching of the trial "to a country which can offer security".

 

The defense team demanded that judge Abd al-Rahman "be removed and cease to have anything to do with the accused because he shows them great hostility".

"I wlll not be tried in a Court without justice."

"This Court is illegitimate"

ABSURD JUDGE

AbdulRahman sentenced to life in prison in Iraq 1977

Taha Yassin Ramadan

WEDNESDAY, February 1, 2006

 

Barzan Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother;

 

Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi vice-president;

 

and Awad Ahmad al-Bandar al-Sadun, Iraqi top judge

 

joined the Iraqi president in boycotting the session.

Bandar to Saddam's right

Barzan Ibrihim al Tikriti