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  • Saddam's defence team out of money: lawyer

    10/05/2005 4:25:30 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 30 replies · 734+ views
    Agence France-Presse | October 5, 2005
    Saddam Hussein's family has no money to pay for his defence and his legal team is demanding that either the Iraqi court trying him or the media provide the funds. The former Iraqi dictator is to stand trial over a Shiite massacre in just two weeks. His lawyer, Khalil Dulaimi, says that until now his team has been providing its services for free because Saddam's family "had no money to cover his expenses". He says his team has failed to raise the money from "rich Arabs, including those who had amassed fortunes in doing business with Iraq." Pointing his...