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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...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Curtis Doebbler, a human rights lawyer who has been retained to defend Saddam Hussein in his upcoming war crimes trial, tells a story that he says hints at the problems with America's occupation of Iraq. Since July, he said, he has been approached by not one but two separate organizations funded by the United States to help train the judges of the Iraqi Special Tribunal. Their proposal? That he contribute to the training. After the first request, Doebbler told the organization, which he won't name, that he would probably have a "conflict of interest" instructing the judges who would...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A lawyer is making an unusual appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of an unlikely client: Saddam Hussein. Curtis Doebbler, the lone American on Saddam's legal team, wants the high court to declare the detention of the ousted Iraqi president unconstitutional. The long-shot legal manoeuvre comes as Saddam's lawyers await the chance to meet with their client and find out what charges he will face in a war crimes trial by Iraq's new government. He could face the death penalty. "Even the people we dislike the most have a right to a fair trial," said...

IT IS HARD TO SAY WHAT THE WORST THING ABOUT TODAY'S AMERICAN QUISLING, CURTIS DOEBBLER ACTUALLY IS. So many treasons great and small compete in such a vile and tiny soul. It could be his amazingly demented sense of Web Design: The bull-goose loony site yclept: Homepage of the 2000 USA Elections & Human Rights. (Warning: Do not operate heavy machinery while viewing this site.) Or it could be Doebbler's new client Saddam Hussain. Since Hussain's daughter has hired him, he'll be taking his fees from money scraped off the bones of Iraqis long in mass graves, but he'll...

ASSOCIATED PRESS     The lone American on Saddam Hussein's legal team said yesterday that he has asked the Supreme Court to declare the detention of the ousted Iraqi president unconstitutional.     The long-shot legal maneuver comes as Saddam's attorneys await the chance to meet with their client and find out what charges he will face in a war crimes trial by Iraq's new government in which he might face the death penalty.     "Even the basic rights of due process, the basic rights of fair trial are being stomped on," said Washington lawyer Curtis Doebbler, who volunteered his services on the 20-member team...

Saddam's Hussein's 21-member legal team Wednesday scrapped plans to visit their client in Baghdad, claiming that they have been the target of death threats. Mohammad Rashdan, coordinator of the Saddam legal squad, said the threats were coming from Iraqi officials "who say they will tear us to pieces." Another member of the legal team is Washington, D.C. lawyer Curtis Doebbler, whose track record shows this isn't the first time he has advised opponents of the United States. Doebbler is currently one of about 20 lawyers appointed by Saddam's wife, Sajida, to represent the deposed Iraqi dictator. Saddam was captured in...

(CNSNews.com) - Saddam's Hussein's 21-member legal team Wednesday scrapped plans to visit their client in Baghdad, claiming that they have been the target of death threats. Mohammad Rashdan, coordinator of the Saddam legal squad, said the threats were coming from Iraqi officials "who say they will tear us to pieces." Another member of the legal team is Washington, D.C. lawyer Curtis Doebbler, whose track record shows this isn't the first time he has advised opponents of the United States. Doebbler is currently one of about 20 lawyers appointed by Saddam's wife, Sajida, to represent the deposed Iraqi dictator. Saddam was...

From the article: Saddam's wife has chosen US lawyer Curtis Doebbler to act in his defence. I found this with a quick google search: http://dcregistry.com/users/doebbler/ Curtis Doebbler Statement of Political Views My Politics and Political Views I am a pacifist in so far as I will not use force to achieve political ends and in principle I reject the use of force by both governmental and non-governmental actors. At the same time, I can understand the frustrations of those individuals who turn to the use of force when they or others with whom they identify are being oppressed and have...