After the second invasion of Iraq in 2006 found no WMD’s – the pretext for the invasion in the first place – the Americans settled for the kangaroo court trial of Saddam Hussein.
Quick to announce “mission accomplished” then, recent events however have made a mockery of that claim.
As part of its blitz-campaign to take over northern Iraq, ISIS found and then promptly executed Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman, the judge who sentenced Saddam to death – a death which was crowning moment of the second US invasion of Iraq, and the confirmation of successful US foreign policy.
It goes without saying that if local reports are true, the man who indirectly did the US bidding in slamming the book shut on the Saddam regime and Iraqi “liberation”, has met with poetic justice.
As LiveLeak first reported, Rauf Rashid Abd al-Rahman was the replacement chief judge of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal’s Al-Dujail trial of Saddam Hussein in 2006. His background, from Wikipedia:
Abd al-Rahman was an ethnic Kurd from Halabja. He replaced Rizgar Mohammed Amin as chief judge on 23 January 2006. Amin had resigned after being criticised in the Iraqi media for appearing “too soft” on the defendants by allowing them to speak aloud in court without being recognized. After Amin’s resignation, Abd al-Rahman headed the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal during the rest of the trial of Saddam Hussein and when it sentenced him to death. He also sentenced to death some of his top aides. In December 2006, Abd al-Rahman took his family to Britain on a travel visa, and three months later applied for asylum. He later cancelled his application. In 16 June 2014, Abd al-Rahman was arrested by ISIS rebels during 2014 Northern Iraq offensive. Two days later, it was reported that ISIS captured and executed him.