BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AP) _ ONE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN’S MAIN LAWYERS WAS SHOT TO DEATH WEDNESDAY AFTER HE WAS ABDUCTED FROM HIS HOME BY MEN WEARING POLICE UNIFORMS IN BAGHDAD, OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DEFENSE TEAM SAID, THE THIRD SUCH KILLING SINCE THE TRIAL STARTED SOME EIGHT MONTHS AGO. KHAMIS AL-OBEIDI, AN IRAQI WHO REPRESENTED SADDAM AND HIS HALF BROTHER BARZAN IBRAHIM IN THEIR EIGHT-MONTH-OLD TRIAL, WAS ABDUCTED FROM HIS HOUSE WEDNESDAY MORNING, SAID SADDAM’S TOP LAWYER, KHALIL AL-DULAIMI. HIS BODY WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH ON A STREET NEAR THE SHIITE SLUM OF SADR CITY, POLICE LT. THAER MAHMOUD WAS QUOTED AS SAYING BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CHIEF PROSECUTOR JAAFAR AL-MOUSSAWI CONFIRMED THATAL-OBEIDI HAD BEEN KILLED, ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT PROVIDE ANY DETAILS. A PARKED CAR BOMB ALSO EXPLODED NEAR AN ICE CREAM SHOP IN SADR CITY ON WEDNESDAY, KILLING AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE AND WOUNDING EIGHT, POLICE CAPT. SATTAR JABAR SAID. IT WAS THE SECOND ATTACK IN AS MANY DAYS IN THE SPRAWLING SHIITE DISTRICT IN EASTERN BAGHDAD. --SPA 21/06/2006 12:52 ت م www.spa.gov.sa/370201
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