Word: tribunale
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It's not that I believe Saddam got a raw deal. Some opponents of his execution say the trial's flaws - compounded by the climate of intimidation surrounding it, during which two defense lawyers and a judge were assassinated - are sufficient to justify sparing his life. (Human Rights Watch outlines...
You'd be hard pressed to find a Sunni ? or for that matter anyone else ? who thinks Saddam's trial was fair or impartial. The Coalition Provisional Authority, the institution dedicated to dismantling Saddam's regime, established Saddam's tribunal. Its first head was the nephew of Ahmad Chalabi, the...
The list goes on. Iraq's judiciary clearly is not independent ? the Shi'a-led council of ministers has appointed and removed the tribunal's judges according to political whim. Saddam's trial was conducted inside the Green Zone, protected by American forces and paid for by American money. The...
Sunnis aren't alone in their view of the trial. Europe refused to participate in it because it believed the trial could not be fair and his execution would be a foregone conclusion. The U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the Human Rights Council...
The second Gulf War drove Saddam from Baghdad and power and into the spider hole. In the interim, his Baathist apparatus and military were dismantled. His family dispersed. His heirs, the despicable Uday and Qusay, were killed while fugitives in Iraq. Two years after his arrest, Saddam was put on...