We have formed a legal defense team that includes prominent American, European, Asian and Arab lawyers who were chosen on the basis of competence and merit to put up a strong defense.

This capable team will be entrusted with preparing the defense case when the trial begins and disputing its legality and procedures that deny the President justice.

This move is to put the defense team on a proper legal foundation and when the family appoints lawyers it then knows who is whom.

There is no way you can have a trial in a country where there is absolutely no authority. That is the situation in Baghdad today.

The trial would proceed in the absence of the defendant because the defendant would refuse to cooperate. They might as well sentence them without a trial.

We have not had any charge laid formally against the accused, nor have we had any evidence as to what the elements are of the charge. There has not been a single document served to the defense on the charges, not any shred of evidence, nothing.