Posted on 03/09/2007 4:09:37 PM PST by blam
Judge who sentenced Saddam flees Iraq
BAGHDAD, March 9 (UPI) -- The Iraqi judge who pronounced the death sentence on Saddam Hussein has asked for asylum in Britain, al-Jazeera reported Friday.
Raouf Abdel-Rahman, a member of Iraq's Kurdish minority, has fled the country, al-Jazeera said. He headed the Supreme Iraq Criminal Tribunal that convicted Saddam of ordering the death of Shiite men and boys in Dujail in 1982.
British sources told the Arab-language news agency Abdel-Rahman has applied for political asylum with his family.
Abdel-Rahman also pronounced sentence on Saddam co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, the dictator's half-brother, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, who headed the Iraqi Revolutionary Court.
Saddam's trial was marked by violence, including the assassination of several defense lawyers. He was on trial for the Anfal campaign against the Kurds when he was hanged.
good move
I'd do the same if I were in his sandals...
That rule of law thing seems to be getting off to a shaky start in Iraq.
He is no safer there.
I suspect the Brits will provide him with security. Salman Rushdie has lived there for years and he insulted allah.
Good point.
I thought he was currently a professor at Emory University in Atlanta?
You're right. He is now but he lived in Great Britain for years.
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