Word: janabi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...neighborhood. Two men wearing jeans got out firing Russian-made PKC heavy machine guns, riddling the red Proton sedan with bullets, says al-Zubaidi's son-in-law, who arrived on the scene 10 minutes after the shooting and spoke with eyewitnesses. The son-in-law, Riyadh al-Janabi, says that moments before the murder, all five cars had passed unhindered through an Iraqi police checkpoint...
...second cloud over the ministry has formed from various accounts that police vehicles were used in the killings of lawyers defending Saddam Hussein's lieutenants in the current trial. Two eyewitnesses who told friends they saw Ministry of Interior vehicles take lawyer Saadoun al-Janabi from his office on Oct. 20 before he was discovered dead have themselves been killed. (One witness was shot just last week while taking his pregnant wife to a Baghdad hospital; TIME had been trying to reach him to have him relate what he saw.) "All fingers point to the Ministry of Interior," insists Saddam...
...Mutlaq al-Juburi, a former Baathist general under Saddam; Ala Makki, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Iraqi Islamic party, the largest Sunni political group; Dr. Hatem al-Mukhlis, a secular New York-based doctor and ally of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; and Sheikh Adnan al-Janabi, a secularist tribal leader and expert on petroleum...
...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...
...Laith Kubba, spokesman for Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, speculated that the perpetrators may have been Baathists trying to derail the trial and putting pressure on the government to move it out of the country. But the speculation among the lawyers, since the Janabi killing and also today, has been that the killers were Shiite militias enacting revenge on those defending Saddam Hussein...