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Ramsey Clark Questions Whether Hussein Can Get Fair Trial

HeadlineNov 28, 2005

Meanwhile former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark has joined Hussein’s defense team in Baghdad. On Sunday he questioned whether Hussein can get a fair trial in Iraq. “A court can not be a court unless it’s absolutely independent,” Clark said. “International law, and all private and public law in every country requires independence of the judiciary and of the judges, whoever they are; four we don’t know, we haven’t seen their faces, we do not know their names, would they be impartial?”

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