A judge on the special tribunal that will put Saddam Hussein and members of his former regime on trial was assassinated Tuesday in the Iraqi capital, according to an Iraqi police official and a media report. Al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based satellite TV news network, reported that the judge and his son were killed in the attack. It added the men were killed near their house in northern Baghdad. The New York Times reported that the son, Aryan Mahmoud, was a lawyer with the tribunal.
Judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud and a relative were killed in an ambush northern Baghdad's Azamyiah district, the official told The Associated Press early Wednesday.
Also Wednesday, two car bombs exploded in Baghdad, killing at least 13 and wounding 25, police said.
One blast occurred at a base that occupies the former Muthanna airport, which has been targeted several times over the last year, police officer Salam Hashim Mahmoud said. A second car bomb an hour later at an army checkpoint in south Baghdad killed at least four soldiers, police said.
