Ammar al-Bakri is an Iraqi judge who was the administrator of the Iraqi Special Tribunal to rule over the trial of

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

. Al-Bakri was approved by the Iraqi National Council on October 4, 2004. Critics claimed that al-Bakri is too close to the former interim Prime Minister

Iyad Allawi Ayad Allawi ( ar, إيَاد عَلَّاوِي ; born 31 May 1944) is an Iraqi politician. He served as the vice president of Iraq from 2014 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018. Previously he was interim prime minister of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and the ...

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