Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Wednesday, March 10, 2004
US lawyers to arrive in Iraq for Saddam's trial: website
The United States is to send a team of four lawyers to Baghdad to prepare a list of accusations of war crimes against the former president Saddam Hussein and his regime, said a website "Iraqnews4all" on Tuesday.
The United States is to send a team of four lawyers to Baghdad to prepare a list of accusations of war crimes against the former president Saddam Hussein and his regime, said a website "Iraqnews4all" on Tuesday.
It said three months after capturing Saddam, the Unite States began the procedures for his trial, which also included 200 men of his former regime.
The US legal team from the US Ministry of Justice will stay a few days in Iraq, while another team including about 50 lawyers, investigators and prosecutors will arrive in Iraq by the end of March, added the website.
According to the report, Iraq will hold talks with the four-lawyer team which is to collect for US administer the evidences about the mass destruction weapons, which the former Iraqi regime was suspected to possess.
Saddam will also be tried for oppressing Shiites in the south ofIraq in 1980 and 1991 and his war crimes against Iran and Kuwait.
The interim Iraqi Governing Council announced on Dec. 10 that the Americans would form a criminal court to look into the crimes against humanity that were committed in the time of the former Iraqi regime, and Saddam would be called for trial.