BAGHDAD - Saddam
Hussein’s lawyers are making up stories of
ill-treatment in hopes the ex-dictator’s trial will
be moved outside Iraq, an Iraqi judge who
interrogated him said.
Judge Munir Haddad, an Iraqi Kurd, also told AP
Television News late on Sunday that Saddam’s first
trial will begin “within 45 to 50 days.”
Haddad denied recent claims by Saddam’s lawyer
Khalil Al Dulaimi that the former president was
attacked during a court appearance in late July.
Haddad said such stories represent an attempt to get
the trial moved from Iraq to Europe, where the death
sentence is banned.
Saddam’s family said yesterday it has dissolved his
Jordan-based legal team, cancelling the power of
attorney it had given to international lawyers in a
move seen as reorganising Saddam’s legal counsel
ahead of his upcoming trial. The family said it has
appointed Al Dulaimi as the “one and sole legal
counsel.”
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Former dictator
Saddam Hussein
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