His body was recovered outside an Ur mosque the following day with two gunshots to the head.
Following the drafting, he called for the Arab League and United Nations to intervene to prevent it being passed into law.
On January 9, 2005, the Central Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for him.
Adnan al-Janabi is the father of Salam al-Janabi, better known as Salam Pax, whose English-language weblog "Where is Raed?" became famous at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
In October 2007, he was nominated by the opposition Iraqi Accord Front to the Council of Representatives of Iraq, replacing Abd al-Nasir al-Janabi, who had resigned to join the insurgency.
One of these former inmates, Emad al-Janabi, sued L-3 and CACI for allowing their employees to abuse him physically and mentally at the prison.