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Saddam trial judge escapes attack
23.12.2005
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Baghdad, 23 Dec.
(AKI) - One of the judges conducting investigations
related to the trial of Saddam Hussein escaped an
assassination attempt on Friday in the Iraqi
capital, Baghdad. The Kuwaiti news agency KUNA
reported that Munir Hadad was in the Ghaziliya
neighbourhood with two of his assistants when they
were attacked by armed men, who showered the car
they were travelling in with bullets.
Eyewitnesses say the gunmen fired at the judge from
an Opel car. A group of Iraqi soldiers who were
nearby when the attack happened intervened and saved
the judge's life by opening fire on the attackers,
who were forced to flee. Hadad's car is reported to
have caught fire shortly after he and his colleagues
escaped.
Death threats have been made against many of the
people involved in the trial, including witnesses
from the town of Dujail, where the mass killing in
1982 that Saddam and his defendants are being tried
for took place. |
Former dictator Saddam Hussein
Photo : AFP
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Two of the lawyers defending Saddam's co-defendants
have been killed since the trial began. Saadoun al-Janabi
was kidnapped from his office in Baghdad and killed
on 20 October just one day after the first hearing
of the trial, and Adil al-Zubeidi was killed and
Thamer Hamoud al-Khuzaie was wounded when gunmen
opened fire on their car in early November.
Police in the northern city of Kirkuk arrested eight
people in late November after uncovering a plot to
kill Raeed Juhi, another judge in the Saddam trial.
On 6 December, the day before the former dictator
refused to appear in court, prompting the chief
judge to adjourn the hearing, the eight-year-old son
of a guard working for one of the judges was
kidnapped as he played outside his home in eastern
Baghdad.
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