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Iraqi Judge who issued the death sen­tence of Sad­dam “Rauf Abdul Rah­man” fled Iraq to Lon­don and asked for asylum.

Rauf came to Lon­don mid-December with a tourist visa accom­pa­nied by his wife and two daugh­ters, then returned to Iraq and filed a request for asy­lum to the British embassy claim­ing that he feared for his life from Saddam’s family.

The asy­lum request is in the British Inte­rior Ministry.

11 Comments

  1. LB– I read the Jazeera arti­cle on that sub­ject– there was no men­tion of him flee­ing because of death threats from Saddam’s family…And if they did, then he does deserve it…he must go to hell not to Great Britain.

  2. Layla

    Read this again

    أنه يخشى على حياته من انتقام ذوي الرئيس العراقي السابق

  3. Layla, how dare you give hell such a bad name!

    Hell ain’t a bad place to be, says Bruce Dick­in­son, and we Iraqis acknowl­edge that.

    Think of hell as a nice vaca­tion spot where many US sol­diers and mer­ce­nar­ies are lan­guish­ing right now.

    Any­ways, I just came here to let LB know that this has become the best updated Iraqi blog.

    We have River­bend on one end with her bril­liant analy­sis and com­men­tary, Layla in the mid­dle with her voice of resis­tance, and you on the other with all the news that shames the world community.

    God, Iraqi women just turn me on. You seri­ously shame the male bloggers.

    Except for Imad who con­tin­ues to use a sledge­ham­mer to beat down the walls of ignorance.

  4. Okay fixed my url.

    Sheesh!

  5. LB — it says so in Ara­bic but did not say so on the eng­lish ver­sion of al Jazeerah.net…
    TIA, well thanks…why don’t you update your blog too? What hap­pened to the Iraqi male voices?

  6. Don’t get me started on Iraqi male voices. I update as fast as I bloody can. Did so today actually.

    When I was a lit­tle lad, Iraqi men were MEN. Today, am not sure.

    Makhani­ith comes to mind. Although I may be slightly unfair.

    They young men of the muqaw­ima al basila cer­tainly are MEN.

    Sha­hama!

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