Court to change judge in Saddam trial: State TV
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Associated Press Sep 19, 2006 11:14 PM IST
There was no immediate word on who would replace Judge Abdullah al-Amiri nor why he was replaced.
The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial has been replaced, the government spokesman's office confirmed.
There was no immediate word on who would replace Judge Abdullah al-Amiri nor why he was replaced. The government spokesman's office confirmed that he had been replaced without giving further details.
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Al-Iraqiya also did not say why he was replaced, but the pan-Arab satellite stations Al-Arabiya and Al-Jazeera said al-Amiri was replaced at the request of Iraq's prime minister.
Prosecutors had asked for al-Amiri to be replaced after he allowed Saddam to lash out at Kurdish witnesses.
Last week, al-Amiri stirred further controversy after he told the ex-president that "you were not a dictator."
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