Body of abducted Saddam trial lawyer found in Baghdad

A DEFENCE lawyer in Saddam Hussein’s mass murder trial has been found dead, his body dumped near a Baghdad mosque with two gunshots to the head.

In other violence, four US soldiers were killed in two attacks on Thursday. Three marines died when a bomb hit their patrol in the village of Nasser wa Salam, 25 miles west of Baghdad, and other US troops clashed with gunmen, killing two insurgents and capturing four, the military said.

A US soldier was killed in the north-western town of Hit by “indirect fire”, a term that usually means a mortar or rocket attack.