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...Iraqi government blindsided its U.S. legal advisers when it announced it was removing the lead judge in Saddam Hussein's second trial Tuesday night. Officials in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office had become increasingly impatient with Judge Abdullah al-Amiri in what they perceived as his lenient and overly deferential treatment of Saddam in court. Explaining the move, Iraqi officials cited Al-Amiri's indulging Saddam's lengthy political speeches during three-week prosecution of the Anfal case, smiling at him, calling him "Mr. President" and recently telling him, "You were not a dictator...
...Ridha, adviser to the Prime Minister. It was voted on and approved by the Council of Ministers on Tuesday. The Iraqi President is expected to certify the transfer in the coming day. "The Maliki government chose the decisive route," says Ridha. "We felt that the defense attorneys and Saddam Hussein kind of ruled the court...
...Ghosh says that Baghdad's residents are experiencing "Life in Hell." Iraq isn't exactly paradise, but perhaps Ghosh should have spent time in other places, say, Darfur, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans or Iraq under Saddam Hussein. William West Fairborn, Ohio...
...first time Graham has put the Bush Administration on the spot. When the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke most inconveniently in a presidential election year, he demanded accountability up the chain of command. "What are we fighting for?" the Senator asked at a hearing. "To be like Saddam Hussein?" On Bush's biggest domestic initiative, Graham supported the President's idea to add individual savings accounts to Social Security but also suggested a heretical payroll-tax increase to finance them. He infuriated the right last year by joining the bipartisan, largely moderate "Gang of 14" that blocked a change...
...Senate Intelligence Committee has released a report saying there's no evidence that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al-Qaeda. Thank God we found that out now before we did something crazy." JAY LENO...