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Jan. 7 , 2007

ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY FROM KANSAS WILL DISCUSS HIS WORK ON SADDAM HUSSEIN'S TRIAL

WICHITA, KAN. - Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Luedke will speak to the Wichita Bar Association Tuesday about the time he spent in Iraq assisting with the prosecution of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.

Luedke will speak at noon Tuesday, Jan. 9, at the Sedgwick County Law Center, 225 N. Market, Wichita. Reporters will be admitted to cover the speech, which is otherwise open only to Bar Association members.

Luedke, who is a criminal prosecutor assigned to U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren's Topeka office, served in Baghdad October 2005 through July 2006 as a resident legal adviser to the Iraqi Higher Judicial Council.

In November, Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to hang. He was executed Dec. 29.

For more information, call Jim Cross, public information officer, at 316-269-6481.

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