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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; PROLOGUE; 1. The First Steps; 2. Revolution and Cigarettes; 3. A Deliberate Accident; 4. The Warning; 5. The Confession; 6. The Wrestling Bear; 7. Death Penalty X; 8. The Cage Man; 9. A Matter of Honor; 10. Breaking the Law; 11. The Dawn of Saddam; 12. The Judge's Daughter; 13. The Road to Justice; 14. The Bribe; 15. All Is Fair in Love and War; 16. The Iranian War; 17. The Lion's Den; 18. The Lesser of Two Evils; 19. The Devil's Advocate; 20. Luck; 21. The Gulf War; 22. Return to Baghdad; 23. The Ghost of 9/11. |
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24. The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein25. The Trial of the Century; 26. Justice; INDEX; Copyright. |
| Summary |
The Baghdad Lawyer is a memoir like no other. Readers will experience for the first time the behind-the-scenes workings of the Iraqi criminal justice system from the perspective of one of the most respected trial lawyers in Iraq, in the years before and during the violent and chaotic rise and fall of Saddam Hussein. In a career spanning fifty years, Dr. Sabah Aris has been shot in the head, forced to brandish a revolver to prove a point in court, witnessed an act of cannibalism, defended Saddam Hussein's notoriously unstable and violent son Uday, and more than once has found himself at odds wi. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Aris, Sabah, 1935-
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Aris, Sabah, 1935- |
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Criminal defense lawyers -- Iraq -- Biography.
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Criminal defense lawyers. |
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Iraq. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781627229692 : $9.99 |
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1627229698 : $9.99 |
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