BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saddam trial to resume in Baghdad - Former US attorney may join defense

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Saddam trial to resume in Baghdad: "The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and seven aides on murder and torture charges is due to resume in Baghdad after a six-week break.

Security has been tightened after two defence lawyers were murdered and others, including witnesses, received death threats.

Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, an outspoken critic of the trial, may join the defence team."