[2] In October 2005, in his role as a "senior official" in the Iraqi Bar Association, al-Saadi criticised the assassination of Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi, a lawyer participating in the defence of one of Saddam Hussein's co-accused, stating "This will have grave repercussions.
He said that the association included members of "divergent political factions and groups" and should "remain a symbol of Iraq's unity" rather than being "politicized".
He claimed that the association was one of the "few" organisations in Iraq that was defending "civil and political rights and [guaranteeing] the rule of law".
[4] On December 14, 2008, an Iraqi broadcast journalist working for al-Baghdadia TV, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, threw his shoes at U.S. president George W. Bush and stated that this was on behalf of "the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq".
Al-Baghdadia organised a team of lawyers headed by al-Saadi to provide al-Zaidi's legal defence.