Shake Up Inside Saddam's Legal Team
Saddam Hussein's family has fired all his lawyers except one, Iraqi lawyer Khalil Dulaimi.
"There are too many people in the world who are claiming they are defending the president without the family's knowledge and we don't know who authorized them," said Abdel Haq Alani, the legal consultant of Raghd, Saddam's eldest daughter who is authorized to act on behalf of the ousted leader's family.
He told Reuters Saddam's family had revoked any right of attorney previously issued to any lawyers to represent Saddam, and had chosen Iraqi lawyer Khalil Dulaimi who attends Saddam's court hearings as the "only authorized lawyer at this moment."
Curiously, this is one of the reasons, according to Abdel Haq Alani, the legal consultant for Saddam's daughter:
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