Al-jazeera: Chief of Saddams defense team resigns, Ramsey Clark group to lead defense

The head of Saddam Hussein's defense committee has turned over full control of the legal team to a group led by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Lawyer Ziad Khasawneh, the Jordanian chief of the defense committee, said Wednesday that he contacted Saddam's wife, Sajida Khairallah, and informed her about his decision to quit the legal team.

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Here's a little bit on Ramsey Clark, courtesy of Front Page Magazine's "Discover the Network."

• Former U.S. Attorney General
• Acted as counsel for North Vietnamese Communists and Iran's Islamic dictatorship
• Founder of International Action Center, which is staffed by members of the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist vanguard. Works closely with the WWP
• "The Christian Church[es] overwhelmingly . . . choose to call Mohammad a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too."