BAGHDAD, Sept. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The Iraqi Ministry of Justice has announced that the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and a number of his top aides would start in mid-October, AlMashriq newspaper reported on Thursday.
"The former Iraqi president would be the last one to be tried among former officials of the former regime," Noori Abdul Rahim,information director of the ministry was quoted as saying.
"It is possible that some of the former officials become witnesses against Saddam in cases he is accused of by the judiciary body, which would be Iraqi," he added.
A special court announced last week that it had completed documents of trying Saddam Hussein and 11 of his top aides.Enditem
If this is true and some of Saddams officials talk of the "wmd's" a couple of weeks before the election.