Michael Scharf writes in the Boston Globe that the US media's conclusion that the "Iraqi High Tribunal proceedings of the Saddam trial has been a judicial train wreck, presided over by a weak judge who has lost control of the courtroom is based on several glaring misconceptions about the tribunal. The article argues that the presiding judge, Rizgar Mohammed Amin, may be portrayed in the Western media as an ineffectual judge, but in Iraq he is getting high marks for the conduct of the trial, especially for his judicial temperament.
Read the whole article.. it is an interesting op-ed piece.
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