The spy service will be trained, financed and equipped largely by the Central Intelligence Agency with help from Jordan, US government officials told 'The Washington Post'.
The United States was in direct contact with members of the Sunni insurgency, including former members of Saddam Hussein's regime, says Time magazine.
The United States is now trying to determine how it received erroneous intelligence that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was developing and stockpiling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
The incident occurred on the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's capture.
Iraqi officials had previously said Saddam's trial would open before the scheduled election.
Saddam refusing to enter court for trial
The delegation included former Maharashtra chief minister A R Antulay.\n\n
In a statement, President Bush said the guilty verdict showed that 'the Iraqi people are replacing the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law.'
Did Saddam deserve death sentence for his crimes?
Sadoun Nasouaf al-Janabi, the lawyer of Awad Hamed al-Bandar, was shot in the head and chest.
As soon as the trial started, television pictures showed a defiant Saddam Hussein asking the Judge, "Who are you? What are you doing here? I need to know."
the Iraqi ruler may have moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the March, 2003 invasion by the US-led coalition, say reports.
P V Bakthavatchalam will be part of the international panel of lawyers being constituted to defend Saddam Hussein.
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.
The software called Analyst's Notebook was also used in the capture of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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.
Another group assigned with the task of disposing off chemical and biological weapons is reportedly twiddling its thumbs.
The tribunal was set up in December 2003 to try members of the former regime for crimes and other violations.
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 former UN chief weapons inspector believes Saddam destroyed all his weapons of mass destruction in 1993.
The death sentence could be carried out within the next 30 days.
As many as 7,655 candidates and 307 political entities, nearly triple the number that contested the provisional polls in January, are competing for 275 Parliamentary seats.
The woman broke down while relating how she had been forced to strip in custody.
Hussein and seven others are facing charges of crimes against humanity for the 1982 massacre of Shiite villagers.
"I am not going to speak through the media. I will make a suo motu statement when Parliament meets (later this month)," he said.
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