OUSTED Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein's lawyers yesterday said they would file a lawsuit against President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
 
President of the Jordan Bar Association, Saleh Armouti, who recently joined Saddam's defense team, told journalists the attorneys would seek Saddam's approval this week to file a law suit against the American and British leaders in a European international court.

Saddam’s lawyers want to try the Alliance’s two most prominent leaders of illegally invading and occupying a sovereign country.
 
Armouti spoke shortly before he and other members of Saddam's defense team left the Jordanian capital, Amman, for Baghdad before the former Iraqi leader's trial resumes tomorrow.

In another attempted smokescreen set to prolong the already drawn-out trial further, Armouti also said the lawyers will ask the Iraqi authorities to move Saddam's trial from Baghdad to Qatar or Jordan.
 
Saddam and seven of his former aides are standing trial on charges of killing 148 Shia people in the Iraqi town of Dujail north of Baghdad in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt against the then Iraqi president.
 
Armouti said the defense team will also request Saddam's immediate release, "because his arrest is a violation of international charters after the United States declared an end to hostilities and war in Iraq."

Saddam's high-priced defense team includes former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and former Qatari Justice Minister Najib al-Nuaimi, as well as Iraqi lawyer Khalil al-Duleimi and Jordanian Issam al-Ghazawi.

Armouti recently joined the team, along with a new attorney from each of Bahrain, Iraq, Egypt and Sudan.