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2006-01-14 Iraq

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Posted by Steve White 2006-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Somebody finally sent him photos of the wife and kiddies coming back from the grocery store!!

Posted by smn 2006-01-14 02:19|| 2006-01-14 02:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Churchill was right. Offhand behind the nearest barn.

Posted by 6 2006-01-14 11:13|| 2006-01-14 11:13|| Front Page Top

#3 He's not leaving. Today. Tomorrow?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-14 11:29|| 2006-01-14 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 The honorable judge agreed to bodyguards only "after pressure from friends?" What was he thinking of before that? He should have been wearing body armor & carrying a side arm at all times up to this point. Doesn't he know there's a war on?
It's loong past time to put Saddam in the "ghost HMMV" and drive him around Baghdad until he's blown to bits.

Posted by Flerert Whese8274 2006-01-14 12:08|| 2006-01-14 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought Judge Ito was in still in California.

Posted by Perfessor 2006-01-14 14:41|| 2006-01-14 14:41|| Front Page Top

#6 Ito didn't face quite the threats this guy does.

Posted by lotp 2006-01-14 14:43|| 2006-01-14 14:43|| Front Page Top

#7 "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it."
(Buck, buck, buck, buck, buck)

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-01-14 20:30|| 2006-01-14 20:30|| Front Page Top

#8 BBC has a different take on it:

However, the source within the tribunal told the BBC's Alistair Leithead in Baghdad that Judge Rizgar is not resigning over pressure from the Iraqi government, but because of his disappointment at the public's reaction.

The source said that the judge had simply been trying to ensure that the trial is fair and that everyone involved gets their say.

'Winning tactic'

The BBC's world affairs editor, John Simpson, who has attended the trial in Baghdad, says Judge Rizgar knows his resignation will be a terrible blow to the whole project of bringing Saddam Hussein to justice.

He may be hoping that public opinion will now swing behind him.

Judge Rizgar has been remarkably lenient to Saddam Hussein and his half-brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, and they have taken advantage of this, our correspondent says.

However, he says that this does not mean that the senior judge has lost control of his court.

Posted by lotp 2006-01-14 20:52|| 2006-01-14 20:52|| Front Page Top

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