December 19, 2003	Friday	Shawwal 24, 1424

PARIS, Dec 18: Jacques Verges, a French attorney of Asian extraction with a penchant for defending such lost causes as Nazi war crimes figure Klaus Barbie, terrorist Carlos the Jackal says that he’s ready to take on the case of Saddam Hussein.

“If, in fact, he’s being stashed away by the Americans,” Mr Verges told newsmen, “then I’d immediately point out that it’s against conventions.”