March 3, 2008 - 12:00am
By Jake Friedman
Judge Ra'id Juhi Hamadi Al-Saíedi, the man who indicted former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, met a receptive audience yesterday as he spoke to members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. The talk, according to Chapter Scholarship Chair Steven Sachs ’09, was an attempt “to bring speakers on all sorts of things to the house.”
The former Chief Investigative Judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal, Al-Saíedi currently serves as Cornell’s first Clarke Middle East Fellow.
“If I talk to the law school, I’ll focus on legal issues. If I talk to the government school, I’ll focus on politics. [But at the fraternity], I can focus on anything,” Al-Saíedi said.