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REPORTED DEAD. IZZAT IBRAHIM AL-DOURI, 63, former top aide to Saddam Hussein and ranked No. 6 in the Pentagon's Most Wanted deck; by the formerly ruling Baath Party, in a message to reporters. Al-Douri, whose death could not yet be confirmed by U.S. officials, has been at large since December 2003, when Saddam was captured. He was believed to have leukemia...
...Interestingly, Saddam, whose official biography says he has a law degree from Cairo University, probably made a mistake by entering an "innocent" plea on Wednesday. By doing so, says Badie Izzat, defense counsel for former Iraqi deputy prime minster Tariq Aziz, Saddam tacitly accepted the court's legitimacy. If his strategy is to deny that legitimacy, better for Saddam to have said nothing...
...Another aspect of the defense strategy will be the "no-experience" argument: "This is the first time we've had a trial in Iraq for crimes against humanity," says Izzat. He and Dulaimi argue that they haven't received the training in international human rights law that the judges received in the U.S., Britain and Australia, so the proceedings cannot be fair. "We have no experience," says Izzat...
...dictator Slobodan Milosevic, but Judge Amein may not allow such theatrics, filibustering and hectoring of witnesses in his courtroom. Indeed, the refusal to recognize the court may be less a legal strategy than a political one, playing to Arab resentment toward the U.S. invasion both inside and outside Iraq. Izzat says that when he visits Aziz, who is being held in the same facility as Saddam, the bombs and gunshots of the insurgency are easily heard. By further stoking resentment among Iraqi Sunnis' nationalist and in the wider Arab world, Saddam aims to rally support for the Sunni-led insurgency...
...Every human being has hopes, even in the last days of his life," says Izzat...