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That was how it ended for Adel al-Zubaidi on a sunny afternoon in early November. The attorney defending Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti and former Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan was heading home from work with a colleague when two Opel sedans and two orange-and-white taxis boxed in his car on the busy main street of his 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...
...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...
...Brokaw ’06 of Leverett House, Kate E. Delaney ’06 of Mather House, Jannie S. Tsuei ’06 of Quincy House, and Carrie H. Petri ’06 of Winthrop House. In Eliot House, a run-off election between Bushra W. Taha ’06 and Xi Wang ’06 was held over the weekend after they tied in the initial voting. Results were not yet available last night. —Staff writer Giselle Barcia can be reached at gbarcia@fas.harvard.edu...
...Yarmouk Hospital is bracing itself for another grim load. Insurgent groups routinely mount their biggest attacks during the commuter crush: the heavy traffic guarantees them a high death toll, and the ensuing snarl-ups prevent police and military units from giving chase. For medical workers like Dr. Jalal Taha Emad, an emergency-room surgeon, each day begins with a foreboding of the mayhem to come. "When I am on my way to work, I sometimes look at people in the cars around me and wonder how many of them will end up on the beds of my hospital. I suppose...
...explosion could be heard two miles away in the Yarmouk Hospital. Dr. Jalal Taha Emad told his crew to prepare to receive the wounded. "I heard the explosion in the distance," he says, "and I guessed that the ER was going to get very busy...