(22 May 2006)
++VIDEO OF BUSHRA KHALIL THROWING DOWN ROBE AND BEING ESCORTED FROM COURT UNAVAILABLE++
1. Wide of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and co-defendants in pen
2. Close-up of chief judge Abdel-Rahman
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Rahman, chief judge:
"Bushra, in the last session you left the court, or we have removed you. (UPSOUND Bushra Khalil saying "Yes"). Now we accept you provided that you adhere to the practices and traditions of the law profession. Any behaviour outside this, action and procedures will be taken against you. Sit down. (UPSOUND Bushra Khalil "Please, I want to know what procedures have I broken.") Sit down (UPSOUND Bushra Khalil "I would like to know what they are so that I do not repeat them"). Sit down or I remove you."
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Rahman, chief judge:
"Take her out. Take her out. (UPSOUND Bushra Khalil saying "One minute") Take her out."
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bushra Khalil, defence lawyer:
"One minute."
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Rahman, chief judge:
"No, get out. (UPSOUND Bushra Khalil saying "One minute"). No, apply for your request outside the session, outside the session. Mr, you too will be with her. Take her out. (UPSOUND Bushra Khalil saying "easy!"). Are you a lawyer or a gang? (UPSOUND Bushra Khalil shouting). You are a lawyer, you should be an example in behaviour. (UPSOUND Saddam Hussein saying "The Iraqi legal system has been muddied. What a pity. Why?)
This matter has nothing to do with you, you are an accused man."
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi president:
"I am above you, above your father."
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Rahman, chief judge:
"Sit down."
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi president:
"Behave yourself."
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Rahman, chief judge:
"You are accused and we are treating you as an accused man."
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi president:
"I am Saddam Hussein, neither the charges nor anything else will change me."
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdel-Rahman, chief judge:
"You were a president, now you are accused of criminal charges."
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi president:
"I am the president and you are a man of law, you know the law and you practice the opposite."
14. Abdel-Rahman shouting Saddam Hussein down
15. Cutaway other prosecutor writing notes
16. Wide of defendants' pen, all of them standing up before hearing witness
17. Abdel-Rahman introducing first witness
18. Murshid Mohammed Jassim, first witness and former employee of the Revolutionary Court
19. Cutaway of defendant Awad al-Bandar
20. Wide of Murshid Mohammed Jassim in court
21. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Defence lawyer (no name given):
"I make a point that a serious breach of the defence rights had been committed by the court on purpose. We fear that the purpose of it is to terrorise and terrify us so that we do not attend (the court sessions)."
22. Various of row between lawyer and judge
STORYLINE:
Guards forcibly removed a defence lawyer from the courtroom and the chief judge shouted down Saddam Hussein in a stormy start to a new session of the trial of the former Iraqi leader and members of his regime in Baghdad on Monday.
The squabble began when chief judge Abdel-Rahman informed defence lawyer Bushra Khalil that she would be allowed to return to the court after being removed in a session in April for arguing with the judge.
But when she tried to make a statement, he quickly cut her off, saying, "Sit down."
"I'm Saddam Hussein, president of Iraq. I am above all," Saddam shouted back.
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