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NBC Judge wrongfully identified

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Goosemaster

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Now I know the "daily show" is not the best source for accurate information, but I would liek to at least have the story behind the fallacy at least.

Stewart claims that NBC nightly News' Brian Williams identified the wrong Iraqi judge who was murdered yesterday. Williams' staff accidentally confused another judge with the real judge, who was not attacked, and is the judge currently preciding over Saddam Husseins War Crimes trial. In the past, the judge's face was always blurred in photos to protect his identity and his wellbeing. Proceeding under the assumption that he had perished, NBC news inadvertantly ran the un-blurred photo of the judge, who is alive, and inadvertantly exposed him.

Is this true?
 
Buried inside the MSNBC Website, Link: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7046361/



Judge on Iraq war crimes tribunal assassinated
But victim is not presiding judge as initially reported
By Jim Miklaszewski
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 3:49 a.m. ET March 2, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A judge working on the special tribunal established to try Saddam Hussein and other senior officials in his toppled regime was assassinated Tuesday in Baghdad, but U.S. officials told NBC News that initial reports that the victim was the presiding judge were erroneous.

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Judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud and his brother were killed Tuesday in northern Baghdad?s Azamyiah district, police 1st Lt. Oday Kayoun told The Associated Press.

Earlier reports that the slain judge was Ra?id Juhi, the 35-year-old chief investigative judge of the special tribunal, were erroneous, officials told NBC News.

Kayoun said Mahmoud?s brother was a lawyer, but it was not known if he also worked for the tribunal. The New York Times reported that the relative killed was Mahmoud?s son, Aryan, who was a lawyer with the tribunal.

Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based satellite TV news network, also reported that the judge and a relative died in an attack. The network said they lived in the same house in northern Baghdad, near the attack site.

The judges on the tribunal have not even been identified in public because of concerns for safety, but Mahmoud was apparently the first one to die in Iraq?s insurgency. Officials with the Iraqi government and the Iraqi special tribunal couldn?t be reached before dawn Wednesday for comment.

Mahmoud?s role on the tribunal was unclear, but the law establishing it called for up to 20 investigative judges and up to 20 prosecutors. It also said the tribunal would have one or more trial chambers, each with five judges.

The murders came a day after the tribunal announced that five former members of Saddam's regime ? including one of his half-brothers ? will go on trial for crimes against humanity allegedly committed in retaliation for a failed attempt to kill the former dictator.
 
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