IYAD ALLAWI, a former member of Saddam's Baath party who then worked with the CIA to topple him, was chosen as prime minister of Iraq yesterday.

Iraqis will be queuing up to give evidence against Saddam at his trial, the country's foreign minister says.

A ROADSIDE bomb left two soldiers dead, while an Apache helicopter killed seven guerrillas thought to be preparing a rocket attack on an American base, the US military said yesterday.