In that sideshow act going on in Baghdad, a pattern has developed:

Gunmen kidnapped and killed the No. 2 lawyer on Saddam Hussein’s defense team, making him the third attorney for Iraq’s former president to be murdered during the crimes against humanity trial.

The body of Khamis al-Obaidi was found shot dead Wednesday on a Baghdad street near a shopping center in the Ur neighborhood, said Gen. Mohammed al-Dulaimi of the Interior Ministry. He said Obaidi was kidnapped in the city’s upscale Mansur neighborhood before the killing.

Hussein’s chief defense attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi, said by phone from his home in Amman, Jordan, that he believes Shiite Muslim militiamen were responsible for the killing (emphasis mine).

Far as I’m concerned, if that’s how they want to deal with things, let ‘em.  Skip this show-trial, drop off Saddam in a shiite neighborhood, hand out tools to the mob that shows up, & watch what happens.