Saddam Hussein’s Anfal trial, for the killing of 180,000 Kurds in the 1980s, resumed in Baghdad today with the late dictator’s seat empty, nine days after he went to the gallows.

Former Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Hamza al-Zubaidi has died at a US military hospital in Baghdad, an American military spokesman said today.

SADDAM HUSSEIN yesterday warned that anyone who attacks Iraq will die “in disgraceful failure” — as thousands of armed civilians marched through Baghdad in support of the Iraqi president.

Anyone who attacks Iraq will die in ‘‘disgraceful failure,’’ President Saddam Hussein said in a televised speech today.