Ibrahim Odai / Ibrahim Al‑Bussaf

From the news reports:

He knew Ibrahim as a police cadet, an uncommonly honest man who refused to accept bribes. "He was very ambitious to be a lawyer, so he studied and got his degree and when he became a lawyer he started coming back to his friends who were still policemen, asking us to send him our cases in which the people in prison were illegally or dishonestly accused, in Saddam's time.

"He graduated 2 years ago and started to work with those people accused by the others. He wouldn't work for anyone who was trying to harm anyone else � it was the first time I'd ever seen a lawyer who wouldn't accept bad things being done. Beside Ibrahim's house, which you saw, near the medical aid place, there was an office of the Baathist party. When any soldier leaves his unit and goes absent without leave the Baathis used to come and take him from his house and send him back to his unit.

"This was near Ibrahim's house and he told all the police that when people escaped from the army they shouldn't tell the Baathists, he told them do not take anyone from his house, just talk to them and try to persuade them to go back. Don't take them to the prison. This is a good thing from Ibrahim, because they weren't punished if they went back, only if the Baathis took them."

UN Observer 12 Dec 2003