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Saturday, March 22, 2003

Legal training for Iraqi exiles
Bernard Hibbitts at 6:58 PM ET

[JURIST] From Saturday's Omaha Herald and Knight Ridder:

About 40 exiled Iraqi lawyers and judges - some from Europe and the Persian Gulf - are converging on Washington this weekend for legal training that would allow them to take part in temporary courts in a postwar Iraq. Justice Department officials and outside experts in international law, war crimes and U.S.-style judicial systems are leading the two-week course, participants say.
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