Lawyer in Saddam trial kidnapped in Baghdad

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BAGHDAD, Oct 20 (AFP) - A lawyer working on the defense team of a co-defendant in the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was kidnapped Thursday evening in Baghdad, Iraqi security sources said.

Saadoun Janabi was abducted by armed men just a day after the former dictator's trial for a 1982 massacre of Shiites got underway in the capital, the sources said.

Janabi is an attorney for Awad Hamad Al-Bandar Al-Sadun, one of Saddam's seven co-defendants in the case that opened Wednesday.

Al-Sadun is a former chief judge of the revolutionary court and deputy head of Saddam's office.
 
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