Saddam trial judge's brother-in-law killed

The brother-in-law of the new Iraqi judge presiding over Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial was killed and his nephew injured in a shooting today in Baghdad.

Kadhim Abdul-Hussein were fatally shot and his son Karrar injured in the capital’s western Ghazaliyah neighbourhood by unidentified assailants, said police 1st Lt. Thaer Mahmoud.