OBEIDI, AN IRAQI WHO REPRESENTED SADDAM AND HIS HALF BROTHER BARZAN IBRAHIM IN THEIR EIGHT-MONTH-OLD TRIAL, WAS ABDUCTED FROM HIS HOUSE WEDNESDAY MORNING, SAID SADDAM'S TOP LAWYER, KHALIL AL-DULAIMI. HIS BODY WAS FOUND SHOT TO DEATH ON A STREET NEAR THE SHIITE SLUM OF SADR CITY, POLICE LT. THAER MAHMOUD WAS QUOTED AS SAYING BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CHIEF PROSECUTOR JAAFAR AL-MOUSSAWI CONFIRMED THAT AL-OBEIDI HAD BEEN KILLED, ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT PROVIDE ANY DETAILS. A PARKED CAR BOMB ALSO EXPLODED NEAR AN ICE CREAM SHOP IN SADR CITY ON WEDNESDAY, KILLING AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE AND WOUNDING EIGHT, POLICE CAPT. SATTAR JABAR SAID. IT WAS THE SECOND ATTACK IN AS MANY DAYS IN THE SPRAWLING SHIITE DISTRICT IN EASTERN BAGHDAD.
