'The proceedings in the Dujail trial were fundamentally unfair'.
The pistol was seized from Hussein when he was captured near Tikrit last December. Some troops who caught the deposed president gifted it to Bush.
He issued a presidential decree to this effect on Friday.
Saddam refusing to enter court for trial
The photos that were released after Saddam's capture in December 2003 from a 'spider hole' in Baghdad were "within our guidelines under the Geneva Conventions," White House press spokesman Trent Duffy said.
Head of Jordan's Bar Association Hussein Mjalli said volunteers had signed up at the their offices in Amman.
Two weeks ago, Britain's Telegraph had reported that Iraqi gunmen were offered a "deal" to halt all attacks in return for a reduced sentence for Saddam, who is likely to be sentenced to death.
'With tears in his eyes, he told me in Gujarati, "What have they done to this country? It has so much potential." That feeling for the country -- it was striking.'
Sadoun Nasouaf al-Janabi, the lawyer of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, was shot in the head and chest.
I have personally talked to the president if we had a clear shot to assassinate him, we would probably do that, Republican Senator Peter Fitzgerald told Chicago's Daily Herald.
The death sentence could be carried out within the next 30 days.
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein pretended to possess weapons of mass destruction to prevent a possible Iranian attack but never thought that America would invade Iraq and overthrow him. The deposed Iraqi dictator, who was executed in 2006, revealed this information to Federal Bureau of Investigation's special agent George Piro, who interrogated him after his capture in 2003.
Most countries are opposed to the death penalty.
Rights activists deplore absence of international jurists on panel to try Saddam.
The gravest danger facing America and the world is outlaw regimes that seek weapons of mass destruction, the US president said in his State of the Union address.
"I would have no hesitation. That's my work. That's my chosen pursuit -- to protect rights. His rights need protecting," Ramsey Clark said.
the Iraqi ruler may have moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the March, 2003 invasion by the US-led coalition, say reports.
Talking to newsmen in Bangalore on Monday, Sharief said Saddam's hanging was nothing, but a "brutal act committed by United States and its ally Britain."
Al Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden, and ousted Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, have been nominated for the title of the 'Greatest Arab' of all time in a Middle Eastern variant of the BBC's Great Britons series.
The woman broke down while relating how she had been forced to strip in custody.
Twelve people, including two girls, were injured in running battles between protesters and police lasting several hours.
Saddam would continue to inspire Sunni Arabs to not only oppose the US but also other governments that are perceived to be US puppets.
In an interview to the tabloid The Sun from his cell, the once feared ruler of Iraq described how he looked for his motorbike to flee from the clutches of the US combat forces just minutes before they surrounded him.
The only real issue left was whether Saddam had decided to give up these horrible weapons of mass destruction, he said.
The UN Security Council has passed three resolutions to fortify Iraq's sovereignty, scrapping nuclear sanctions imposed during the Saddam Hussein reign and ending the controversial oil-for-food programme of the 1990s
The world body's headquarters was closed on Saturday and the statement of Qazi was posted on its website.
P V Bakthavatchalam will be part of the international panel of lawyers being constituted to defend Saddam Hussein.
The former UN chief weapons inspector believes Saddam destroyed all his weapons of mass destruction in 1993.
But the US president said the punishment for the former Iraqi ruler will be decided by 'the citizens of Iraq'.
The US and the UK may give this option if weapons inspectors report that the Iraqi dictator is refusing to disarm fully, a report said.
Hussein and seven others are facing charges of crimes against humanity for the 1982 massacre of Shiite villagers.
The item girl lashed out at Veena Malik after the Pakistani actress was reported missing and re-surfaced in a suburban Mumbai hotel.
"The execution of the death sentence will be a form of judicial assassination," the CPI(M) said, urging all sections of the people to protest the death sentence.
According to the report, post war findings intimate Saddam Hussein "as distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime".
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