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• 4 December 2005: Judge Midhat Al-Mahmoud, President of the High Judicial Council,<br />
survived a suicide bomb attack against his home. 1001<br />
• 8 November 2005: Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying two lawyers defending<br />
Saddam Hussein’s half-brother Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti and former Vice President<br />
Taha Yassin Ramadan, in the Dujail trial. Adel Al-Zubeidi was killed and Thamer<br />
Hamoud Al-Khuzaie was wounded in the incident. 1002<br />
• 20 October 2005: A day after the start of the Dujail trial, in which former President<br />
Saddam Hussein and seven others stand accused of the killing of 148 Shi’ites, Defence<br />
Attorney Saadun Janabi was murdered in Baghdad. 1003<br />
• 17 August 2005: Jasim Waheeb, an investigative judge at the Appellate Court of Al-<br />
Karkh, and his driver were shot to death in Baghdad’s Al-Doura neighbourhood. 1004<br />
• 17 June 2005: A judge and his driver were killed in Mosul City by unknown<br />
gunmen. 1005<br />
• 3 March 2005: Judge Barawiz Mohammed Mahmoud Al-Merani and lawyer, Aryan<br />
Mahmoud Al-Merani, both working with the Iraqi High Tribunal tasked to try Saddam<br />
Hussein and former members of his government, were killed by gunmen outside their<br />
home in Adhamiya. The killings came one day after the court issued referrals for five<br />
former regime members for crimes against humanity. It is possible that the killings were<br />
related to the Kurdish ethnicity of the victims. 1006<br />
• 2 March 2005: A criminal court judge involved in human rights cases was shot dead in<br />
front of his house. His lawyer brother was also killed. 1007<br />
• 26 January 2005: Senior judge Qais Hashim Shameri and his driver were killed by<br />
gunmen. Jaish Ansar Al-Sunna claimed responsibility in a Web posting, calling the<br />
judge “one of the heads of infidelity and apostasy of the new Iraqi government”. 1008<br />
1000 AP, Bakers, lawyer among five killed in Iraq attacks, 30 March 2006, http://www.khaleejtimes.<br />
com/displayArticle.asp?col=§ion=focusoniraq&xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/March/focusoniraq_March1<br />
35.xml.<br />
1001 Ibidem, Son of top Iraqi judge shot dead, see above footnote 994.<br />
1002 BBC News, Saddam trial lawyer is shot dead, 8 November 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/<br />
middle_east/4417948.stm.<br />
1003 Kamal Taha, Saddam lawyers determined to defend him despite threats, Middle East Online, 2 November<br />
2006, http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php?refid=DH-S-02-11-2006&article=11507.<br />
1004 Arabic News, Judge killed, Muslim Scholars commision attacked, 19 August 2005,<br />
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050819/2005081906.html.<br />
1005 Ibidem, Iraqi judge killed in Iraq, 17 June 2005, http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/<br />
050617/2005061702.html.<br />
1006 Robert Worth, Judge killed before Saddam trial, Agencies, 3 March 2005,<br />
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Iraq/Judge-killed-before-Saddam-trial/2005/03/02/1109700536629.html; AP,<br />
Judge, lawyer on Iraq war crimes tribunal killed, 2 March 2005, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7064658/.<br />
1007 Ibid.<br />
1008 AP, Video shows American hostage; judge killed in clashes, 26 January 2005, http://www.usatoday.com/<br />
news/world/iraq/2005-01-25-voter-safety_x.htm.<br />
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