Open season on defence lawyers in Iraq
Via AP/Yahoo:
Another Saddam Co-Defendant's Lawyer Slain
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a lawyer for a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein's trial and wounded another Tuesday in Baghdad, a member of the defense team and police said. It was the second assassination of a Saddam defense team lawyer in less than a month.
Saddam's lawyers are blaming it on the Iraqi Government:
Saddam's main lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi, blamed the government for Tuesday's attack, telling Al-Jazeera television that the shooting was carried by "an armed group using government vehicles."
"The aim of these organized attacks is to scare Arab and foreign lawyers," al-Dulaimi said. "We call upon the international community, on top of them the Secretary-General of the United Nations, to send an investigative committee because the situation is unbearable."
I can't imagine that he really believes it - it's just a good excuse to introduce more delays into the trial.
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