IRAQ. ATTORNEY FOR SADDAM CO-DEFENDANT SHOT, COLLEAGUE KILLED

a lawyer working for one of the co-defendants of ousted president Saddam Hussein on trial over the massacre of Shiite civilians was wounded while a colleague was killed by armed men in Baghdad. Lawyer Tamer Hammud Hadi was helping with the defense of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, a Saddam half-brother, on charges that he shared responsibility for the 1982 massacre of more than 140 Shiite villagers from Dujail, north of the capital. Hadi was wounded while another attorney, Adel Mohammed Abbas, was killed when armed gunmen opened fire on them at 1:30 pm in the Adl neighborhood of Baghdad.