the controversial french barrister jacques verges dies age 88, verges nickname the devils advocate for his defending of 20th cenrury most notorious and brutal leaders from klaus barbie the nazi war criminal, to former leaders of khumer rouge regime of cambodia that killed about 2 million people through starvation, execution in the early 1980s. verges argued that he would have defended adolf hitler and saddeim hussein, but will not defend george bush.