Saddam meets lawyers for first time since capture

CAMPAIGNING for the first post-Saddam Hussein elections got under way in Iraq yesterday amid more bloodshed, as the ousted president met his family-appointed lawyers for the first time since his capture a year ago.

Ahead of next week’s start of the trials of his lieutenants, Saddam’s defence team, based in Amman, said after the meeting with a lawyer that he appeared to be “in good health.”

Ziad al-Khasawneh, the head of the toppled Iraqi dictator’s legal team, said Saddam had four hours of talks.