- Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark has joined the
team of Jordan-based lawyers defending Saddam Hussein.
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- Mr Clark - who held office in the 1960s under President
Lyndon Johnson - said his principal concern was protecting the rights of
the former Iraqi leader.
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- Saddam Hussein this month saw a lawyer for the first
time since his capture.
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- Left-wing activist Mr Clark described the special tribunal
established to try members of the former regime as a creation of the US
military occupation.
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- He said it had no authority in law as a criminal court.
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- Mr Clark is joining a panel of about 20 prominent Arab
and non-Arab lawyers who have volunteered to defend the former Iraqi leader.
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- He is an outspoken critic of American foreign policy
on Iraq and visited Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in February 2003 just before
the US-led invasion.
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- After leaving office in 1969, he became active in the
anti-Vietnam War movement. More recently, he has offered legal advice to
numerous figures at odds with the US government including former Yugoslav
president Slobodan Milosevic.
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- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4132505.stm
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