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A member
of Saddam Hussein's defence team, Issam al-Ghazzaw,
said lawyers were becoming increasingly at risk in
Iraq. "I think he was kidnapped because they don't
want to hear the defence of the accused," he said.
"This has happened many times with other lawyers.
Their homes have been raided and documents taken.
They live in a jungle."
The identities of the five judges and prosecution
team in the Saddam Hussein trial have been kept
secret. The names of the top judge and prosecutor
were only released on the opening day when they were
shown in the televised trial.
The eight defendents are being tried for crimes
carried out by government security forces in the
town of al-Dujail in 1982, in which 143 Shiites were
killed in retaliation for an assassination attempt
on Saddam Hussein as his motorcade passed through
the town. If convicted on this first charge, the
former dictator could face death by hanging and
never be tried for the many other crimes he is
accused of, which include the gassing of some 5,000
Kurds in Halabja in northern Iraq.
Al-Janabi's kidnapping comes on the same day as Rory
Carroll, an Irish journalist from the British
Guardian newspaper was released
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