Badie Ariaf Izzat, defense attorney for Tariq Azziz and other members of the former Iraqi regime, has been at the center of a bizarre series of events that have apparently demonstrated a serious erosion of amity and cooperation between US forces and the current Iraqi government and court system. Izzat's life may well have been saved by US forces who intervened on his behalf following an unbelievable breakdown of due process that resulted in his being subjected to arrest and potential murder plots by the presiding judge after he made clear that he would submit evidence that the gassing of Iraqi Kurds for which his clients were standing trial may have been committed by the Iranians and not the Ba'athist regime. I am going to provide this link to an interview conducted with Izzat without additional commentary:

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