Manama - A Bahraini lawyer said on Tuesday he was scrapping plans to form a defence team for Saddam Hussein because he had failed to gain support for his idea to use the trial to show who supported the Iraqi leader.
"My idea wasn't to defend Saddam, because his crimes are known to the whole world.
"I wanted to unveil all facts and bring to trial Saddam's accomplices," Mohammed Redha Abu Hussein told Reuters.
"I received many calls from lawyers around the world asking about the defence team I was planning to form, but none of them believed in my idea," Abu Hussein said.
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He said his aim was to bring charges against any party that had backed Saddam financially or politically: "Such a move could be embarrassing for some Gulf Arab states and Western countries."
Abu Hussein has criticised US policy in the Gulf, saying Washington backed Saddam during Iraq's 1980-1988 war with Iran.
Saddam is in US custody after his capture earlier this month. Iraq's Governing Council has said he will stand trial.
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