Daily Nigerian
Robert Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Iraq on Wednesday said the trial of Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants had many violations and was “not perfect.”
Ford made the assertion in an interview with Sputnik ahead of the 15th anniversary of Hussein’s 2006 execution.
He said “the trial itself certainly had problems, no question. Some of the defence lawyers were assassinated, which was terrible.
“During the trial itself, sometimes the prosecution introduced evidence without allowing the defence to see it first so that the defence was surprised by the new evidence.’’
According to the former ambassador, the prosecution did find many documents signed by Saddam Hussein and other defendants, which directly implicated them in the charges of the Dujail massacres and killings…
