The NYT has some additional information on the arrests I noted yesterday regarding the Saddam trial in this piece: Hussein’s Trial Resumes in Baghdad.

Specifically: the number of individual arrested is now reported at 10 and the piece also deals with the issue the premature reports of Ibrahim’s death:

The allegation against Mr. Ibrahim came two weeks after an apparently false report that he had died appeared on a Web site operated by loyalists of Mr. Hussein’s banned Baath Party. The American military command said it was treating the report as disinformation, and even the Baath Web site later withdrew it.

American commanders have identified Mr. Ibrahim, 63, as perhaps the major leader of the insurgency’s Baathist wing, and an architect of the alliance it has struck with Islamic militants who have carried out many of the war’s bloodiest attacks.

More on the plot against the court:

General Qader, the Kirkuk police commander, said the raids that uncovered the plot to kill Mr. Juhi had also found three car bombs ready to be driven to targets, as well as other documents linking the men seized in the raids to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy to Osama bin Laden. He said the document ordering Mr. Juhi’s assassination was signed with a pseudonym, “Sheik of the Mujahedeen,” and that the captured men, one of them a former secret police officer under Mr. Hussein, had said that that was the title used by Mr. Ibrahim.

In regards to the trial process, here’s an unhappy factoid:

Nine people directly linked to the process have been killed, including two defense lawyers in the past six weeks.