The location of Saddam's detention was revealed today as a US military base on the oustskirts of Baghdad.
It had long been suspected that Saddam was being held at Camp Cropper and today Iraq 's Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin confirmed the location. He added he had last seen the deposed dictator in September and that he looked well.
The trials of some of Saddam Hussein's aides will begin next week, Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said today.
Speaking to Iraq's National Council, he did not name the lieutenants that would go on trial or say when Saddam himself would appear in court.
"I will tell you clearly and specifically that next week, God willing, the trials of the symbols of the former regime will begin," Mr Allawi said. He added that an alleged senior figure among insurgents had also been caught.
"In addition to the members of the former regime, there are terrorist elements that came from abroad," Mr Allawi said.
"A person called Hassan Ibrahim Farhan Zaydi was killed. He is one of Zarqawi's people. Two of his aides were detained."