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Saddam Hussein's chief lawyer warns of more violence in Iraq if ex-president sentenced to death

Al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press in Jordan that he warned of a civil war in a letter sent recently to U.S. President George W. Bush.

"I warned him against the death penalty and against any other decision that would inflame a civil war in Iraq and send fire throughout the region," al-Dulaimi he said in a telephone interview from Baghdad. He did not say when exactly and how he sent the letter to Bush.

"Any foolish American decision will further complicate things and will pose a serious threat to U.S. interests in the region," he said.

Al-Dulaimi also claimed that the offices of Saddam's defense team in the U.S.-controlled Green Zone of Baghdad were ransacked over a week ago, and that more than 1,400 pages of the trial documents were damaged.

He said trial documents were provided by the Iraqi court trying Saddam and his co-defendants in the Anfal trial regarding the genocide charges on Kurds, and that the defense team had been reviewing them.

Associated Press writer Sinan Salaheddin in Baghdad, Iraq contributed to this report.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/10/29/africa/ME_GEN_Iraq_Saddam_Trial.php