Saddam Trial Lawyers Shot

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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1201869,00.html

Saddam Trial Lawyers Shot
Updated: 12:57, Tuesday November 08, 2005
Two lawyers representing a co-defendant of the deposed Iraq leader Saddam Hussein have been shot in Baghdad.

Iraqi police say one was killed in the attack.

The attack followed the murder of another defence lawyer in the team, Saadoun al Janabi, who was shot the day after the trial started in Baghdad last month.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Can't the U.S. find another way to fix Saddam's trial other than killing

his lawyers?

[Horse with no Name]

2. Blackwater?

Who didn't see this coming?:shrug:

[saigon68]

18. I put nothing past those THUGS

[Rageneau]

3. Your tax dollars at work.

[brainshrub]

4. This trial should be happening at the Haugue via an international court.

The whole trial of Saddam is a sham.

[goforit]

5. OMG!!!!......Bush probably had them killed cause of too much evidence

they had against this administration.

[Neil Lisst]

6. I call that an "Iraqi Motion for Continuance."

That's the second one they've filed, right?

[ECH1969]

7. Saddam lawyer killed

THE lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein’s co-defendants has been assassinated in Baghdad.

Adel al-Zubeidi, who was representing the former Iraqi vice president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was killed and another lawyer was injured in an ambush in western Baghdad today.

Last month, Saadoun al-Janabi, lawyer for co-defendant Awad al-Bandar, was abducted from his office by 10 masked gunmen.

His body was found hours later on a pavement near a mosque in eastern Baghdad.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005520021,00.html

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. That is one high mortality job!

[lonestarnot]

9. Two out of two now?

[underpants]

10. Let's check the scoreboard-alQeda #2's 35 Saddam lawyers 2

But the lawyers can make a comeback any day now. I can just FEEL IT!

[lonestarnot]

12. Maybe we could interest bushitler in a new job.

[meegbear]

13. Saddam lawyers are the Washington Generals here ...

I'm betting on the #2s.

[global1]

11. Time For A Change Of Venue For Saddam .......

because it's clear that he won't get a fair trial in Iraq. Not with *Co pulling the strings and Blackwater doing the dirty work.

[Fridays Child]

14. Let's see if they can figure out how to blame it on the insurgency.

:eyes:

[gWbush is Mabus]

15. the assassins were in Iraqi GOVERNMENT cars!

[chelsea0011]

16. sounds like a free country to me

[demobrit]

17. Let Justice take its course by

Holding the trial where it should have been in the first place at The Hague where defense , prosecution and witnesses can be protected

[Vanje]

19. Refresh my memory

Wasnt the first legal proceeding against Saddam,halted when the judge himself was charged with murder?
That judge, coincidentally (insert sarcasm emoticon here), was Chalabi's nephew.
That was at about the same time as Chalabi's first fall from grace with the Whitehouse, when he was found to have shared secrets with Iran. Am I the only citizen who recalls news footage of Chalabi having his computers taken away by coalition troops?

And what ever became of Chalabi's nephew the accused murderer?
Was he tried?
Is he being wined and dined at Cheney's house like his Uncle Chalabi is?

[Disturbed]

20. He fled to the UK.

No extradition of an accused murderer in the UK?

What purpose does it serve to kill these defense lawyers for any side of this situation?

[Vanje]

21. Someone dosnt want the trial to proceed

....apparently someone with a key to a US backed Iraq gov car.
Is someone afraid of the possibility of embarrassing testimony?

[Chicago Democrat]

22. Not again....

Silly lawyer, trials are for real democracies.

[Rex]

23. Just goes to show that the BFEE is a far greater danger

than Saddam ever was! I still claim (from the day they 'found' him in a rathole) Saddam will die before any verdict is reached.

[jazzjunkysue]

24. I keep missing my ex dictator, but my aim's getting better.

Damn.