Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Will they never learn?

Buried in the current news item on Iraq is this gem:
(A)n official confirmed that nine staff members of the Iraqi special tribunal preparing to try Saddam Hussein have been dismissed because of links to the ousted dictator's Baath party.

The cases of 19 others, including the chief investigative judge, are under review.

The executive director of the Supreme National Commission for de-Baathification, Ali al-Lami, said the nine dismissed staffers held administrative jobs such as the witness security protection program and tribunal security.

Al-Lami said that the committee is preparing another list for 19 persons, mostly judges, for possible dismissal. They include chief judge Raid Juhi, he said.

The head of the government committee in charge of purging former Baath officials is Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favourite.

So the puppet regime's means of bringing integrity to the court process is by putting a possible Iranian spy who encouraged cronies to lie about WMDs in charge of determining who's eligible to participate.

A confidence-inspiring choice indeed.

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