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Raouf Abdel-Rahman was appointed last month to head the five-judge panel. For security reasons, three judges are not identified and never photographed. Abdel-Rahman took over after former chief judge Rizkar Mohammed Amin resigned to protest meddling by Iraqi government officials. One of Saddam's lawyers claims that Abdel-Rahman, a Kurd from Halabja, has a "personal feud" with Saddam and isn't impartial. Abdel-Rahman has rejected complaints by the defense, declaring that "political speeches have no place in this courtroom...
...does one prepare to become one of modern history's most notorious dictators? "I learned the accordion," says FOREST WHITAKER, who plays the former Ugandan despot Idi Amin in the upcoming political drama The Last King of Scotland. The film follows a Scottish doctor who becomes Amin's personal physician. Whitaker also studied Swahili, met Amin's family and some of his former generals and visited the East African nation's palaces and temples. "Most people think of [Amin] as a monster," says the actor. "But he was funny, charming, passionate and flamboyant." Maybe. Since he's responsible...
RESIGNED. RIZKAR MOHAMMED AMIN, as chief judge of the tribunal overseeing the trial of Saddam Hussein; "for personal reasons," he said in a statement; in Baghdad. The Iraqi government did not immediately accept the resignation of Amin, who has been criticized for allowing Saddam's frequent outbursts. The trial is set to resume this week after a month's recess...
...money and supplies to an al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan, among other things. Now Faris' attorney and dozens of other lawyers involved in some major terrorism cases are planning to file court challenges to see where the information on their clients came from. Miami attorney Kenneth Swartz represents Adham Amin Hassoun, a Lebanese-born Palestinian who lived in Broward County, Fla., and has been charged, along with Padilla, in an alleged conspiracy to commit terrorist acts abroad. Swartz says if any of the wiretaps used to build a case against his client were done "without legal authority, it would...
...relief workers about reports of specific needs from volunteers and villagers in Pakistan. The Relief Information System for Earthquakes-Pakistan (RISE-PAK) puts focus on individual villages that might otherwise be overlooked by relief efforts in the wake of the Oct. 8 earthquake, Khwaja said. Kennedy School student Samia Amin, who helped Khwaja compile a list of charities for RISE-PAK, said that part of the challenge of disaster relief efforts is documenting where help is going. RISE-PAK addresses that by aiming to keep track of where help has been sent and where it is still needed, Khwaja said...