Al-Duleimi has spent significant time in hiding since his meeting with Saddam, as he received numerous death threats, including a message to his home warning that suicide cells had been formed specifically to kill him as an example to all other attorneys who had volunteered for Saddam's defense team.
[1] In a June 2006 interview with Malcolm Beith of Newsweek, al-Duleimi announced his intention to write a book about his client, in which he would "tell the truth."
"My memoirs will contain all the facts, and I will reveal many details that will serve justice and the truth," he told the Newsweek reporter.
In February 2007, al-Duleimi officially re-iterated those plans to write a book about the "many secrets" his client Saddam Hussein revealed to him during their 140 interviews.
Al-Duleimi also promised to reprint as many as 300 personal letters, poems and other miscellaneous works written by Saddam.