Published on 10/21/05 at 12:35:23 GMT by Andy Alkaline
...BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A defense lawyer for one of Saddam Hussein's co-defendants was shot dead after being abducted by gunmen, police said on Friday, throwing a brutal new twist into a case that is deepening Iraq's sectarian schisms.
Witnesses said Saadoun Janabi was abducted from his Baghdad office late on Thursday. His body was found about an hour later with gunshot wounds to the head and chest, police said.
Janabi was defense attorney for Awad al-Bander, a former top Iraqi judge who appeared in court with Saddam and six other men on Wednesday at the start of their trial on charges stemming from the killings and executions of more than 140 men in 1982...
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