Izzat is the lawyer of former deputy prime minister of Iraq Tariq Aziz, and currently is the chief attorney of the defense in the Anfal (gassing of the Kurds in Halabja in 1988) trial. He was recently whisked from Iraq by the U.S. military after being threatened by the Iraqi judge in his trial since he is accusing the Iranians, instead of the regime of Saddam Hussein, for gassing the Kurds in Halabja in 1988.
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Interview of Badie Arief Izzat on 12 April 2007 in Damascus, Syria
US military saved me: Iraqi lawyer
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When the Iraqi High Court re-adjourned on April 16 for the trial of former Iraqi officials charged with participating in attacks against the Kurdish minority in the 1980s, the defence team was without one of its chief attorneys.
