Lawyer Warns Against Saddam Execution

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Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer warned Sunday of worsening violence in Iraq and chaos across the Mideast if the ex-president is sentenced to death at his trial for a crackdown on a Shiite Muslim village in the 1980s.

Khalil al-Dulaimi also said he would break a monthlong boycott and attend proceedings Monday when Saddam's second trial resumes on separate charges of genocide against the Kurds.

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``I warned him against the death penalty and against any other decision that would inflame a civil war in Iraq and send fire throughout the region,'' al-Dulaimi said in a telephone interview from Baghdad. He did not say when he sent the letter to Bush.

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He also claimed the offices of Saddam's defense team in the U.S.-controlled Green Zone of Baghdad were ransacked over a week ago and said more than 1,400 pages of trial documents were damaged.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6178751,00.html

[napi21]

1. That's what a lawyer is supposed to do.

Everything he can say or do to prevent HIIS client frombeing put to death!

[Stockholm]

2. He is probably right

Rumsfeld will need his old pal to sort out Iran...

[Demeter]

3. But Willl Anybody Listen?

The Bush Family Evil Empire wants Saddam dead before he's able to spill the beans on them.