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LAWYER IN SADDAM TRIAL SHOT DEAD
WebPosted Tue Nov  8 09:47:45 2005

---Gunmen shot and killed a lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-
defendants on Tuesday, the second defence lawyer in the trial killed in
less than a month.

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Adel al-Zubeidi was killed by shooters in a speeding car in the Adil
neighborhood of Baghdad. He had been representing former Iraqi vice-
president Taha Yassin Ramadan, one of Saddam's seven co-defendants in the
high-profile crimes against humanity trial.

The trial has been adjourned until late November.

                       FROM OCT. 21, 2005: Lawyer
                       in Saddam trial found dead

Another defence lawyer, Thamir al-Khuzaie, was injured in the attack.

Saddam's lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, blamed "an armed group using
government vehicles," alleging the Iraqi government is trying to
intimidate foreign or Arab lawyers.

In late October, Iraqi police found the body of Saadoun Sughaiyer al-
Janabi, a lawyer who represented another of Saddam's co-accused.

His body was found near a mosque in Baghdad with two gunshot wounds
to the head.

He had been representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar, one of seven Baathist
party officials being tried along with Saddam for murder, torture, forced
expulsion and illegal imprisonment in the 1982 massacre of Shias in the
town of Dujail, north of Baghdad.

Prosecutors and the five judges have been provided with heavy security,
but the court hasn't assigned security to defence lawyers.

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