 Saddam Hussein met with a lawyer on Thursday for the first time since he was arrested a year ago, his defence team said. "The interview lasted for more than four hours. The president seems in good health, much better compared to his first appearance before the court," Saddam's Amman-based legal team said in a statement. Saddam Hussein will be the last of 12 leaders from the toppled regime to go on trial "long after" next month's elections, Iraq's justice minister told a Swiss newspaper in an article published on Thursday. In addition, Barzan Ibrahim Hassan al-Tikriti, presidential adviser and also half-brother of Saddam, would be the second to face justice after Ali Hassan al-Majid, said Justice Minister Malek Dohan al-Hassan. |