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Ex-Judge questioned in Saddam trial
Awad al-Bandar, one of Saddam?s seven co-defendants who testified last month, was cross-examined for a second time over the 1984 trial of the Shiites before his Revolutionary Court.Saddam was not in the courtroom. A day earlier, the former president was cross-examined by prosecutors for six hours for the first time in the six-month trial.
Prosecutors are seeking to show that al-Bandar?s Revolutionary Court gave the 148 Shiites only a cursory trial on charges they tried to assassinate Saddam in the town of Dujail in 1982.
?It was a legal and a just court,? al-Bandar testified. ?I was keen to carry out justice and I hoped that the defendants would be found not guilty. ... May God be my witness, it made us happy whenever a defendant was released.?
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