Terror Takes One More

Very bad news from Iraq: the judge presiding over Saddam Hussein's trial has been murdered.

Drudge also sets in motion the next media scandal. He reminds us that The Independent, a British newspaper, published the judge's name.

Here's the disgusting, weasel-worded justification of the editor of this paper, whose ink-stained hands are now blood-stained:

Simon Kelner, editor of The Independent, defended his decision, saying: "This was not a British court, it was an Iraqi court. We don't want to compromise the judge's safety but the cameras showed side views of him and he was instantly recognised by many Iraqis."

A good man and a patriot is dead because evil men desired it and foolish men failed to prevent it.

Perhaps those clowns with the "We're sorry" signs would care to send similar sentiments to the judge's bereaved family and countrymen.

Update:

The initial reports were apparently wrong---it was not the presiding judge who was murdered, but another judge working on the tribunal, according to MSNBC, who identifies the presiding judge within their story, which I won't link to for that reason. Thanks to Captain Ed for quickly alerting me to this new information---he remains the example for the rest of the blogosphere.

I regret the error, but not my high dudgeon. ---Teflon

Update II:

The aformentioned Captain Ed shows how this sort of thing is done and gives a generous-but-sadly-undeserved hat tip to MoltenThought.

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