Hussein sees defense lawyer
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Saddam Hussein met with a defense lawyer yesterday for the first time since his capture a year ago, days before several of his top aides are due to appear in court for hearings on alleged war crimes.
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BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein met with a defense lawyer Thursday for the first time since his capture a year ago, days before several of his top aides are due to appear in court for hearings on war crimes.
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Saddam Hussein was back in court in   Baghdad on Monday for the latest hearing in his trial for   genocide against ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s.
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Preparations to put Saddam Hussein on trial intensified on Thursday with a first meeting between the ousted Iraqi president and a member of the defence team appointed by his family.
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BAGHDAD Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of Saddam Hussein&#39;s closest aides and known as &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; for the gassing of the Kurds in Iraq, will be the first of Saddam&#39;s top deputies to be tried, Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein met with a defense lawyer yesterday for the first time since his capture a year ago, days before several of his top aides are due to appear in court for hearings on alleged war crimes.
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Saddam Hussein objected on Tuesday to allowing a leading American forensic scientist to testify about his investigation into a mass grave of Kurds in the genocide trial of the former Iraqi leader.
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AMMAN, Jordan  - Former Iraqi President Saddam  Hussein's defense team reviewed Sunday how to move ahead with  their case after they gained access to their client this week  for the first time since his arrest a year ago, lawyers said.
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Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants will take a step closer to trial in the coming weeks but don't expect an O.J. Simpson-style courtroom drama, a Western legal expert involved in the process said on Wednesday.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what he called US efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers say.
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Saddam Hussein is in good health, but unrepentant, according to a lawyer who spent more than four hours with the deposed Iraqi leader last week.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 16 -- Saddam Hussein met with a defense attorney Thursday for the first time since the former Iraqi president was captured a year ago and days before several of his top aides are due to appear in court for hearings on alleged war crimes.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, one of Saddam  Hussein's closest aides and better known as "Chemical Ali,"  will be the first of Saddam's top deputies to be tried, Iraq's  Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan said on Wednesday.
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Saddam Hussein saw a lawyer on Thursday  for the first time since his arrest a year ago, days after his  attorneys protested at a lack of access to him or other  detained former Iraqi officials, the defense team said.
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The United Nations (UN) war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands ruled on Thursday it will assign a defense lawyer to former Yugoslav president SlobodanMilosevic, reports reaching here said.
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Saddam Hussein appeared at his genocide trial on Wednesday, despite writing to the chief judge to say he would no longer attend court sessions in protest at being repeatedly silenced.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as  "Chemical Ali," will be the first of Saddam Hussein's top  deputies to face trial, Iraq's defense minister said on  Wednesday.