Three men threatened Saddam Hussein’s chief lawyer as he boarded a plane from Baghdad to Jordan today, and they were removed from the flight, said the Iraqi lawyer and his colleague, ex-US. Attorney General Ramsey Clark.

Saddam Hussein’s lawyers won’t recognise the October 19 start of the former Iraqi leader’s trial because they claim they have not been notified of the date by the tribunal trying him, the attorneys said today.

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

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.