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Kidnapped Lawyer in Saddam Trial Found Dead

By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Fri Oct 21, 2005 at 10:54:17 AM EST
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Bump and Update: Bad news. Kidnapped lawyer Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi has been killed.

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Original Post (10/20)

The AP is reporting:

Ten masked gunmen kidnapped the lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants Thursday, police said. Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, who was in the courtroom for Wednesday's opening session of the trial, is one of two lawyers for Awad Hamed al-Bandar, one of seven Baath Party officials being tried with Saddam.

The gunmen pulled up outside al-Janabi's office in Baghdad's eastern Shaab district in the evening, broke into the building and dragged him out, said Police Maj. Falah al-Mohammedawi of the Interior Ministry. Al-Janabi was one of 13 defense lawyers in Wednesday's session, seated at desks along the side of the courtroom.

I hope for his safe return. I also hope this is not the beginning of a plan to take out the lawyers, one by one. Who does the kidnapping benefit?

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    Kidnapped Lawyer in Saddam Trial Found Dead | 4 comments (4 topical)
    Re: Kidnapped Lawyer in Saddam Trial Found Dead (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:12 PM EST
    "Who does the kidnapping benefit?" Anonymous. Such a kidnapping benefits the fomenters of civil war in Iraq, by getting the various factions to blame each other. It is impossible to draw up a BETTER list of ways to make civil war occur. They haven't missed a step.
    “In order to achieve the most noble accomplishments, the leader may have to ‘enter into evil.’ This is the chilling insight that has made Machiavelli so feared, admired and challenging…we are rotten,” --racist Michael Ledeen, AEI, PNAC
    That pesky word 'noble' covers a lot of crimes, apparently.

    Re: Kidnapped Lawyer in Saddam Trial Found Dead (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:12 PM EST
    If I were a Sunni trying to foment civil war, this is PRECISELY what I would want to do. And I would make damned sure that the attorney's head would be found in a very public place, on a pike. I'd also make damned sure that the perpetrators were wearing American military uniforms at the time of the crime. The whole point is to make hay of Saddam's trial. Saddam is done for, so why not make the most of him. Most of us believe that he can't get a fair trial, so why not drive the point home by killing as many of his attorneys as possible? Everyone will blame the Americans for their utter inability to provide even the most basic security for a show trial and insinuate that America may have something to gain (or to hide) by these continued killings. Plus, what a great chilling effect, eh? That'll teach you attorneys to presume to represent people the court of common opinion has already found guilty!

    Re: Kidnapped Lawyer in Saddam Trial Found Dead (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:12 PM EST
    Bush is holding him in a safe house, or maybe bush order him killed? how long before we all are hold by bush in camps?..for political reason? much on washington and hang the rats. before the rats hang you.

    Re: Kidnapped Lawyer in Saddam Trial Found Dead (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:15 PM EST
    Despite my comment above, I am sickened to have been proved right in this instance. You really have to have brass ones to be practicing law - let alone defending the accused - in Iraq right now (or EVER). There but for the grace of Allah ...

    Kidnapped Lawyer in Saddam Trial Found Dead | 4 comments (4 topical)