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About Khalil al-Duleimi
- Khalil al-Duleimi is an attorney best known for representing Saddam Hussein at his trial.
- He was one of 22 lawyers representing Hussein at his trial, and the only one based in Iraq.
- When Saddam's legal team learned that Saddam was to be interrogated, they requested the presence of a lawyer.
- Al-Duleimi represented Saddam, and told the head of the legal team, Jordan-based lawyer Ziad al-Khasawneh, that Saddam had answered the tribunal with "confidence and serenity".
- Al-Duleimi has spent significant time in hiding since his meeting with Saddam, as he received numerous death threats, including a message to his home warning that suicide cells had been formed specifically to kill him as an example to all other attorneys who had volunteered for Saddam's defense team.
- In May 2005, upon release of photos showing Saddam sleeping and washing his trousers, by an anonymous US Army officer, al-Duleimi made comments critical of the United States Army, but did not comment on a possible lawsuit proposed by al-Khasawneh. On August 8, 2005, Saddam's family dissolved the remainder of the legal team and appointed al-Duleimi as sole legal counsel.In a June 2006 interview with Malcolm Beith of Newsweek, al-Duleimi announced his intention to write a book about his client, in which he would "tell the truth." "My memoirs will contain all the facts, and I will reveal many details that will serve justice and the truth," he told the Newsweek reporter.
- In February 2007, al-Duleimi officially re-iterated those plans to write a book about the "many secrets" his client Saddam Hussein revealed to him during their 140 interviews.
- The secrets are purportedly about the fall of Baghdad and Saddam's imprisonment.
- Al-Duleimi also promised to reprint as many as three hundred personal letters, poems and other miscellaneous works written by Saddam.
- The book, according to al-Duleimi, could be out in as little as one year.
- At the time of his announcement, al-Duleimi had not yet found a publisher.In December 2008, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi broadcast journalist who was under detention after having thrown his shoes at U.S.
- president George W.
- Bush, refused al-Duleimi's offer to defend him legally.
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