CNN Breaking: Lawyer in Saddam Hussein's Defense Team Kidnapped

[VolcanoJen]

Breaking now... will update with link.

Latest update: CNN says the name of the lawyer is Saddoon Dulami (sp?). He was kidnapped by a team of five gunmen at around 8:30 pm Baghdad time.

CNN says he is one of the defense lawyers, but not Saddam's lawyer per se.

LINK:

Defense lawyer in Saddam trial kidnapped: police (Reuters)

Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:16 p.m. ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A defense lawyer involved in the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others has been kidnapped by gunmen, said police and Interior Ministry sources.

Police said initial reports identified the abducted lawyer as Saadoun Dulaimi. A legal source confirmed the kidnapped man was involved in the trial which started on Wednesday.

[Pithy Cherub]

1. OK, we are all starring in "Truman II" and don't know it!

Oh my, just jaw dropping :wow:

[saigon68]

20. "Freedom is on the march", shouted THE CHIMPANZEE

[Jara sang]

2. Lawyers in Saddam Hussein trial kidnapped.

Breaking CNN - No link yet.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Which side?

[electron_blue]

4. oh good grief

[tk2kewl]

5. I don't really know why, but this just made me

LOL

:freak:?

[LynzM]

6. Because it's both predictable and absurd,

At this point? I hear ya!

[Jara sang]

8. Yeah, the U.S. needs to get it's kangaroo court in order.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. This morning,

I read a thread with links that stated the guy on trial isn't Saddam, but one of his doubles-they used photos of his teeth to show differences between the man on trial from the dictator. If this is indeed the case, I wonder if the kidnapping has anything to do with it.

[Catchawave]

16. Knowing about all his doubles

I would think they would have DNA tested him by now ?

[sybylla]

26. Dentures? Caps?

Someone his age on the run for 8 months might have suffered enough physically that he would have either lost teeth or they may have been pulled or replaced for other reasons.

Dentures would not likely look at all like his originals.

Call me unconvinced.

[lovuian]

12. We can't even defend his lawyers much less defend him!!!

Saddam will be like Oswald killed by a lone gunman!!! There will be NO TRIAL!!!

[mtnester]

24. Exactly, that way he will not be killed by the US, becoming a martyr

via the death penalty.

Yeah, I believe he will be killed on the grassy knoll, by a lone gunman in a repository...no one else involved. :sarcasm:

[AlCzervik]

9. a lawyer for the ironically named former head of "The Republican guard"

[malaise]

14. Randi is having a blast with this

hahahahhahaha - this is too good.

[AspenRose]

10. Randi's talking about this now

eom

[Gloria]

11. I was just musing yesteday to a friend, wondering if that French

lawyer who defends all the top "miscreants" and who was vowing to dig into all the details of US/Saddam stuff, is still still on the case.

Is he?

[CottonBear]

13. Great. The trial was postponed because the witnesses are too scared

to show up in court. Now this. I have the feeling that former Hussein gov't officials or army officers are behind this. Not everyone is happy about the trial over there.

Wasn't the mayor of Baghdad killed the other day?

[Generator]

21. Yes the mayor was

That's okay according to Condi though-it's going to take another ten years at least to win the war. Ya know-if the neo-cons were at least competent they might persist in their mad ideas of how to make over the world. But they are LOSERS. They are FAILURES. And all I can do is weep and wait for the history books.

[praxiz]

15. What a farse...

Im inclined to think this is a fake kidnapping, in order o delay the trial even further.

I wouldn't be surprised if Saddam escapes from prison soon.

[Tiggeroshii]

19. "DeLay" the trial?

Could that be our new term for trying to make it a circus. That has nothing to do with what you were saying sorry, I jsut saw it as an opportunity say this.

[unrepuke]

32. What farse? the lawyer? Does he speak Farsi?

:shrug:


;-)

[Generator]

17. They can't even come up with enough security

for THE trial of the century (Iraq wise) what does this say about this country and our accomplishments there? A frigging nightmare.

[rodeodance]

18. oh my--what next.

[joemurphy]

22. More evidence that the insurgency is in its death throes! n/t

[TheCowsCameHome]

23. Was it the dreaded #2 lawyer?

[mtnester]

25. Snarf....too funny

[arwalden]

36. OMG...

...hysterical!!

[Selteri]

27. Why do I have thoughts of Extraordinary Rendition by the US. NT

[ReadTomPaine]

31. Does make you wonder who did the kidnapping, I'd agree.

[Enraged_Ape]

28. All right, that's it: Mistrial!

Nothing screams "mistrial" like having your attorney kidnapped. That's got to rank towards the very top of the list of mistrial excuses, right behind "My attorney was shot in the head six times."

[Charlie Brown]

29. Lawyer on Saddam's Defense Team Abducted in Baghdad

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20394883.htm

BAGHDAD, Oct 20 (Reuters) - A lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants was kidnapped from his home on Thursday, a day after he sat in the dock next to the former president on the opening day of their trial for crimes against humanity.

His client is former judge Jawad al-Bander, a senior legal source involved in the trial told Reuters.

"Saadoun Janabi was kidnapped this evening around 8.30 p.m. (1730 GMT) from his office, which is also his home, in the Shaab district by eight armed men," the source said.

Police and Interior Ministry sources confirmed the kidnapping. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

[katty]

30. Kidnapped?! call Condi and Dummy! Terra Terra Alert!

[Tight_rope]

33. Ok...Starting to think they shouldn't let people....

in Iraq travel in groups of more then 4. Because it's always a group of 5 doing the kidnapping or the killing. :shrug:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

34. Ah yes, the old...

...habeus abducti maneuver. I half expected it.

[arwalden]

35. LOL!

[leesa]

37. I would check Cheney's lair...or James Baker III's house.

It would be devestating for the Bush Crime Syndicate if the truth were to get out.

[Roland99]

38. Too bad he's not a white, teenage girl. Greta would be there in a flash!!!

[Dr Fate]

42. heh!

n/t

[struggle4progress]

39. Nothing says "fair trial" like death squads kidnapping defense lawyers ..

.. in a situation where everyone has remarkjed about the exceptional security ...

[goforit]

40. This reminds me of the Keystone Cops!!!

Toooo funny!!!!

[Blue_Tires]

41. this has Blackwater's prints all over it

makes me wonder what this attorney knew, or was about to divulge to the public

[moondust]

44. Yeah. Why would the insurgs/Sunnis/whoever kill Saddam's defense?

Doesn't make any sense. (Like everything else in Bushworld.)

[Moochy]

51. Exactly

This killing bears the "hallmarks of the Insurgency"

quoting the BBC radio news report that just aired. :wtf:

[Cooley Hurd]

43. CNN reporting that the lawyer was killed...

Breaking, no link yet...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

45. Link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051021/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Roland99]

46. Was he going to force the U.S.'s skeletons out of their closet?

He got "Negroponted".

:(

[tk2kewl]

47. Lawyer For Saddam Hussein Co-Defendant Found Dead

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1512002/20051021/index.jhtml?headlines=true

The attorney for one of the co-defendants in Saddam Hussein's murder trial was found dead Friday (October 21), just hours after being kidnapped at gunpoint from his Baghdad office.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

48. Lawyer for Saddam Co-Defendant Found Dead

Lawyer for Saddam Co-Defendant Found Dead

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's mass murder trial who was kidnapped has been found dead, his body dumped near a Baghdad mosque, police and a top lawyers' union official said Friday. In other violence, four U.S. service members were killed in violence a day earlier, the U.S. military announced. Three Marines died when a bomb hit their patrol in the village of Nasser wa Salam, 25 miles west of Baghdad on Thursday. The surviving American troops clashed with gunmen, killing two insurgents and capturing four, the military said. An American soldier was killed in the northwestern town of Hit by "indirect fire," a term that usually means a mortar or rocket attack, the military said

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iraq

[Moochy]

50. So maybe I'm being dumb

but why would the "resistance" want to murder Saddam's DEFENSE laywer.

Are we to beleive they want to make some statement about the trial?
Iraqi officials said that the killing has all he "hallmarks of the insurgency" Is there some area of the body they shoot people?

give me a break.

:eyes:

[Supersedeas]

49. Well, that opens a new can of worms...doesn't it...