There is virtually no protection for the nine Iraqi lawyers and their families who are heroically here to defend truth and justice.

We will be back in court on December 5 and we will demand protection of the counsel.

How can you ask a witness to come in when there's a death threat? ... Unless there's protection for the defense, I don't know how the trial can go forward.

It creates sectarian passions that destroy rationality and reason and the search for truth.

No lawyer Saddam Hussein has known before the U.S. invasion has seen him, ... He never has had anything approaching counsel of his own choosing?. There has been no ability to begin to prepare a defense.

Reconciliation is essential. This trial can either divide or heal. And unless it is seen as absolutely fair, and as absolutely fair in fact, it will irreconcilably divide the people of Iraq.