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Police and defense team sources said Adil al-Zubeidi
was killed when the two lawyers' car came under fire
in the western Baghdad district of Hay al-Adil,
while Thamer Hamoud al-Khuzaie was wounded.
Both men were on a team defending Saddam's brother
Barzan al-Tikriti and former vice president Taha
Yassin Ramadan, legal sources said. Khuzaie was
among the lawyers who appeared in the televised
trial sitting at the same front bench as Janabi,
lawyers who know both men said.
In last month's attack, Saadoun al-Janabi,
representing another of the eight defendants, was
kidnapped from his office and shot by armed men who
local people said identified themselves as employees
of the Interior Ministry on October 20, the day
after his court appearance at the start of the
trial.
The government has denied involvement in Janabi's
death but the killing renewed accusations of
sectarian violence involving government forces and
pro-government Shi'ite militias ranged against
Saddam's fellow minority Sunni Arabs.
Reuters
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