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31 Aug 2006, 8:56 pm
" Some Americans didn't support my decision to remove Saddam Hussein; many are frustrated with the level of violence. [read post]
29 Aug 2006, 6:55 pm
So, whether intentionally or not, the President seems to have transferred the awesome power to decide whether the United States will go to war, not to the U.N., but to Saddam Hussein. [read post]
23 Aug 2006, 8:41 am
[JURIST] Testimony from Kurdish survivors of the 1987-1988 Anfal campaign [HRW backgrounder] in Iraq continued Wednesday during the trial of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive], where Hussein and six co-defendants face genocide and crimes against humanity charges [JURIST report]. [read post]
22 Aug 2006, 10:01 am
[JURIST] Witness testimony began Tuesday in Saddam Hussein's trial [JURIST news archive] on genocide and crimes against humanities charges [JURIST report] in connection to the so-called "Anfal" operation [HRW backgrounder] that led to the killings of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. [read post]
21 Aug 2006, 8:29 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] refused to enter a plea Monday as he and six co-defendants went on trial on genocide and crimes against humanities charges [JURIST report] in connection to the so-called "Anfal" operation [HRW backgrounder] that led to the killings of as many as 100,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. [read post]
19 Aug 2006, 5:05 pm
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] could continue to be tried posthumously if he is found guilty and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity charges [JURIST report] stemming from a crackdown in the Iraqi town of Dujail, according to a US official. [read post]
18 Aug 2006, 2:08 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] on Friday said that "the Iraqi High Tribunal is presently incapable of fairly and effectively trying a genocide case in accordance with international standards and current international criminal law" and called on the tribunal to "improve its practices" [statement] during Saddam Hussein's second trial, scheduled to begin Monday [JURIST report]. [read post]
15 Aug 2006, 2:03 pm
Massive aerial bombardment and armored invasion are excellent for, say, toppling Saddam Hussein's regime but they're actually counter-productive in counter-terror/counter-insurgency ops. [read post]
14 Aug 2006, 2:46 am
[JURIST] Judge Abdullah al-Amiri, a Shiite judge, will preside over the second Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] by the Iraqi High Tribunal, this one involving the so-called "Anfal" operation [HRW backgrounder] that killed 100,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the 1980s. [read post]
27 Jul 2006, 9:12 am
[JURIST] Chief Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman [BBC profile] on Thursday ordered proceedings in the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] adjourned until October 16, when a verdict against the ousted Iraqi president is expected to be announced. [read post]
26 Jul 2006, 9:50 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein attended trial proceedings [JURIST news archive] Wednesday for the first time since the prosecution called for the death penalty [JURIST report] during closing arguments in June. [read post]
24 Jul 2006, 8:22 am
[JURIST] The Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive] resumed in Baghdad on Monday, though the former Iraqi leader was not in court due to his weekend hospitalization [JURIST report] after collapsing in jail [LA Times report] on the sixteenth day of his hunger strike protesting trial court procedures and a lack of adequate security for defense lawyers. [read post]
23 Jul 2006, 10:28 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] has been hospitalized and is being fed through a tube after a hunger strike now into its third week rendered his health "unstable," according to the chief prosecutor for the Iraqi court currently trying him for crimes against humanity. [read post]
21 Jul 2006, 8:55 pm
In addition, states negotiated the 1925 Geneva Protocol prohibiting gas weapons -- a ban that held with few exceptions, even during World War II, for 60 years, until Saddam Hussein broke it in the Iran-Iraq war and again in his genocidal 1988 Anfal campaign against the Kurds.World War II and its AftermathWorld War II brought its own violations, partly owing to the new technology of air war against civilians. [read post]
21 Jul 2006, 3:23 am
[JURIST] Doctors have warned Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] that his now two-week-long hunger strike could have adverse health effects, according to a US military spokesman Thursday. [read post]
20 Jul 2006, 7:53 am
[JURIST] A lawyer for Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], former deputy prime minister and foreign minister for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has filed a habeas corpus petition [DOC text] with the US Supreme Court [official website], seeking his release from the custody of coalition forces in Iraq. [read post]
17 Jul 2006, 3:23 am
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and three co-defendants have entered their tenth day of a hunger strike [JURIST report] protesting the lack of security for defense lawyers in their trial, US military spokesman Lt. [read post]
13 Jul 2006, 12:03 pm
[JURIST] Former South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park [personal website; Washington Post profile], was convicted Thursday on charges [JURIST report] of money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and acting as an unregistered agent of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. [read post]
12 Jul 2006, 12:40 pm
[JURIST] The US military revealed Wednesday that Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] and three of his co-defendants are five days into a hunger strike in protest of trial court procedures and the killings of three of their defense lawyers, which they believe occurred because of inadequate security provided by US forces. [read post]
11 Jul 2006, 1:57 am
[JURIST] Judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman [BBC profile], presiding over the Saddam Hussein trial [JURIST news archive], on Tuesday adjourned the trial until July 24 in a bid to give Hussein and his lawyers time to return from a boycott of proceedings. [read post]
