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Judge in Saddam Trial Assassinated
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq — An investigating judge in the trial of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (search) has been assassinated, FOX News has learned.
U.S. officials originally said Judge Raid Juhi (search), had been killed, but another judge — one of dozens — was murdered. Details on the assassination and that judge's identity were not immediately available.
Saddam is on trial for war crimes and genocide. The former dictator appeared before a special tribunal in July, where the charges against him were read.
Juhi quite famously stared down a defiant Saddam in the July 1 hearing, firmly reminding the "Butcher of Baghdad" that he was the former, not current, leader of Iraq.
Juhi, who was also presiding over the criminal trials of 11 of Saddam's henchmen, has been living and working under U.S. and Iraqi military protection.
While an obvious target for assassination, Juhi refused to hide in anonymity. In an interview with the New York Times last October, he explained: "There is something very good in Iraqis being able to see that Saddam is gone and that he and other members of his regime now have to face the authority of a judge, of an ordinary man like me."
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