Word: saddams
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...scene was similar on Monday when I sat in the press gallery and watched Saddam arrive in his natty dark suit with a silk pocket square, his improbably black hair and greying beard neatly trimmed. He sat quietly with his Koran in his lap for the first two hours, as his newly appointed lawyers offered an ad hoc defense. His co-defendants had already interrupted the proceedings to say they object to the attorneys brought in after the entire defense team boycotted the removal of the previous judge last week, but Saddam stayed mum. That is until the judge admonished...
...Saddam Hussein may be living in a cell, but he still gets to try his hand at brinksmanship. Tuesday, he tried to go nuclear, getting himself ejected for the third time in as many sessions of the Anfal trial - and prompting all six of his fellow defendants to follow suit. He seems to have found his newest weapon. After all, what's a trial without defendants...
...Just moments after the session began, Saddam stood up and asked to leave. The presiding judge refused, and Saddam replied by pulling a piece of paper out of his Koran and reading a 15-minute speech. After a heated exchange, Judge Mohammad al-Ubeidy had him sent back...
...Iraq's ethnic and religious breakdown would actually require more than one Mandela to hold the country together. But leaders reaching out across sectarian and ethnic lines have not fared well in Iraqi democracy. The secular democrats were heavily defeated in the first post-Saddam election, and were further marginalized in the second as Iraqis voted almost exclusively on religious and ethnic lines...
...deputy judge stepped in on Wednesday morning, the defense walked out, after reading a statement attacking the move. "The decision to sack the judge at the orders of the government shows that this trial lacks the standards of a fair trial," the defense said. The judge later ejected Saddam from the court when he refused to sit down and stop speaking out of turn. The removed judge will likely be transferred to a court that meets outside the fortified Green Zone - where there will be no guarantee he will have the same level of security around...