Sunday, July 04, 2004
Oh, really? It is being reported here in London in this newspaper that Salim Chalabi (the Likud Business partner and nephew of international embezzler Ahmad Chalabi, and the chief judge of Saddam's trial) is threatening to take Robert Fisk to court in Iraq for revealing the identity of the Iraqi judge who appeared in the preliminary court appearance of Saddam. He is the same anonymous judge who issued the court order for the arrest of Muqtada As-Sadr on murder charges a while back (whatever happened to that court order, by the way--interesting sign of the new Iraqi justice, how it bends with the swinging of the interests of the US occupation power?). The problem with the focus on Fisk is that Al-Hayat newspaper and at least two Iraqi newspaper had named the judge before Fisk did so in the Independent. Could it be that crook Chalabi has a score to settle with Fisk over other issues?