Saddam Hussein’s family says it has dissolved the Jordan-based legal team cancelling the power of attorney it had given to international lawyers in a move seen as reorganising the former Iraqi dictator’s legal counsel ahead of his upcoming trial.

Arab countries, including Libya, are contributing to a legal defence fund for toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a French lawyer said in Paris.

The daughter of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will join Saddam Hussein’s defence team to help the deposed Iraqi dictator fight war crimes charges in court.