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Saddam lawyers plan next round of trial

4 GIs, 13 Iraqis killed in violence

AFP, REUTERS, Amman/Baghdad
Lawyers for ousted Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein began drafting a battle plan yesterday for his next court date after the stormy start of a trial many fear will exacerbate the country's sectarian divide.
A defiant Saddam and seven former regime officials all pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges including murder and torture on the first day of a trial watched across the globe.
"The trial of the 21st Century -Saddam and his era in the dock," thundered the headline of Iraq's Al-Mashiraq newspaper.
Saddam Hussein won a 40-day reprieve to hone his defence after pleading not guilty to crimes against humanity on the first day of a televised trial that gripped the nation.
Saddam's lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaymi, said the defence needed another three months to prepare.
"It is necessary to have international lawyers for such a sensitive and huge case ... because the case is much bigger than Iraqi lawyers' capability," he told Al Jazeera television.
At least one international legal watchdog welcomed the adjournment to November 28 by Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin as a sign of fairness to a defence that complained it had insufficient time to prepare for a case centring on the killing of 148 Shia Muslim men after a failed assassination attempt in 1982.
Saddam appeared with seven former cohorts for the killing of more than 140 Shias from the village of Dujail in 1982 after an attempt on his life there. The accused face execution if convicted.
It is the first time an Arab leader has gone on trial for crimes against his own people.
Violence flared the day after the hearing, with 13 Iraqis killed in various attacks, including a suicide car bombing targeting a US patrol. Four US troops died the day before.
The soldiers were killed Wednesday evening and the injured soldier was being treated at a military hospital, the statement read, adding no further detail.
Iraqi officials announced the capture of Saddam's nephew Yasser Sabawi for allegedly funding violence, and the US military said a senior lieutenant to al-Qaeda frontman Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi had been killed during raids on Saturday.
US spokesman General Rick Lynch told media a total that 376 foreigners had been detained this year in Iraq, including 78 from Egypt, 66 from Syria, 41 from Sudan and 32 from Saudi Arabia.
Two British nationals had been detained, while countries that had one included Denmark, France, Ireland, Israel, Macedonia and the United States, "based on interrogations and documents they carried," Lynch said.
Meanwhile Saddam's Iraqi lawyer Khaled al-Dulaimi was to visit Amman to consult with his Jordan-based defence team and prepare for the resumption of the trial on November 28, Jordanian lawyer Issam Ghazzawi said.
He denounced the "illegal" trial and suggested that technical difficulties with a televised broadcast were intentional.
Arab newspapers questioned the legitimacy of the "occupier" court and voiced fears it could widen splits in Iraq between majority Shias and Kurds and Sunni Arabs who were in power under Saddam.
"There are fears that this trial will become an instrument of revenge and not of justice," wrote Lebanon's topselling An-Nahar newspaper.
Noting that "the legitimacy of the Iraqi court is subject to controversy in the legal community and among human rights organizations," the newspaper said the trial could "exacerbate tensions between Sunnis and Shias and strengthen the insurgents."