Saddam Tribunal Staff Killed

World | March 2, 2005, Wednesday // 00:00
Saddam Tribunal Staff Killed An Iraqi judge on the special tribunal that will put the toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and some of his associates on trial was assassinated Tuesday night in Baghdad. Photo by aljazeera.com

A judge and a lawyer working for the special tribunal that will put Saddam Hussein on trial have been shot dead, Iraqi officials revealed on Wednesday. In a separate incident, a car bomb outside an army recruitment centre in Baghdad killed six soldiers. The judge, Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud al-Merwani, and his son, lawyer Aryan Barwez al-Merwani, were killed yesterday in Baghdad. A tribunal official denied that the murders had anything to do with their employment by the tribunal.

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