Saddam Hussein trial to be broadcast on TV

The Iraqi advisor for national security affairs, Muwafaq al-Rubei,, said that the trial of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will be transmitted live via TV to be seen by citizens.

Al-Rubei said in an interview with the CNN that the aim of that is to have an example to be followed, as an open trial, in the Arab and Islamic worlds. He promised that this trial will be fair with "the presence of lawyers and an attorney general."

On Thursday, Saddam Hussein was brought before a private Iraqi court and the session of trial dealt with the repression of the Shiite Intifada in southern Iraq and the Kurdish rebellion in the north in 1991. No date has been set so far for this trial.

Saddam Hussein was arrested in December 2003 in Tikrit. He is still detained with several senior aides in an American prison near Baghdad airport.