Saddam’s Lawyer Quits, Blames Americans
Charles Johnson
Thu Jul 7, 2005 at 4:35 pm PDT • Views: 383
The Arab leader of Saddam Hussein’s legal team has resigned, because Ramsey Clark and Curtis Doebbler were too sane for him: Saddam Hussein’s Chief Lawyer Resigns.
AMMAN, Jordan - Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer quit the Iraqi dictator’s legal team, saying Thursday some of the team’s American members were trying to run the defense and soft-pedal the U.S. occupation of the country.
Ziad al-Khasawneh also told The Associated Press that Saddam’s eldest daughter, Raghad, favors the Americans and non-Arabs on the defense team “because she thinks they will win the case and free her father.”
Al-Khasawneh said he tendered his resignation in a telephone call Tuesday to Saddam’s wife, Sajida, who is believed to be in Yemen.
“I told her I was resigning because some American lawyers in the defense team want to take control of it and isolate their Arab counterparts,” said al-Khasawneh, an Arab nationalist who has often expressed support for Iraqi resistance.
The Americans on the team include former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark.
Al-Khasawneh said Clark and Curtis Doebbler, another American lawyer helping defend Saddam, “have often asked me to refrain from criticizing the American occupation of Iraq and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.”
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