Word: dujail
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Saddam Hussein's seven co-defendants may be wondering how long he'll keep hogging the microphone. Like their deposed leader, each is accused of playing a role in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'ites after an assassination attempt against the President in the northern Iraqi town of Dujail. Prosecutors allege local Baath Party official Mohammed Azawi Ali helped arrest suspected assassins' relatives, regardless...
...power, but he so resented watching a foreign power invade his country that he decided to defend Saddam in court. Al-Dulaimi intends to prove that the tribunal is illegal because it was set up under occupation. As for the charge that Saddam ordered widespread torture and killing in Dujail in 1982, the lawyer will argue that Saddam was acting legally as a leader of a sovereign country to protect himself from assassination. Says al-Dulaimi: "Iraqis are resisting the invasion. Some of them choose armed resistance. I chose peaceful resistance by defending the President." Now, however, the defender needs...
...Both men had spent two hours talking to TIME on Monday, explaining their reasons for joining the team of lawyers representing eight members of the former regime in the trial over the 1982 Dujail executions. (The two were representing Saddam's brother, Barzan al Tikriti, and the former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan.) The shooting comes just over two weeks after a fellow defense attorney, Sadoon al Janabi, was kidnapped and assassinated following the first televised broadcast of Saddam's trial...
...Saddam has been indicted for the 1982 murder of 143 men from the small village of Dujail, following an assassination attempt on the dictator. Hundreds more were imprisoned and tortured. Saddam's defense, however, seems to rest on the fact that he was grabbed "like that," by U.S. soldiers back in December 2003, and was now before a court set up to carry out victor's justice...
...foreign military occupation, by the Coalition Provisional Authority, overriding the laws of Iraq in violation of the Geneva Conventions. He will also argue that as a head of state, former or not, and as such immune from prosecution. The defense will also contend that the men killed after the Dujail attack had all been found guilty under Iraqi law, and that Saddam's involvement was limited to signing their death warrants - something, Dulaimi notes, that President George W. Bush did for more than 150 people when he was governor of Texas...