Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has written a letter saying he did't want to attend any more session in his Kurdish genocide trial, his defense team said yesterday.

In the handwritten letter released by his defense team, Saddam accused Chief Judge Muhammad Ureibi of being biased on him and his lawyers, complaining that "I wasn't given the chance to speak whenI tried to clarify the truth, so I say that my spirit cannot bear this."

He continued to write: "I feel disgusted. I will not accept being offended continuously by you and others. Therefore, I ask to be relieved from attending the hearings in this new comedy and you can do whatever you want."

Saddam and his aides are facing charges of genocide against Kurds in the trial of Operation Anfal, a military campaign in which prosecutors said that up to 180,000 Kurds were killed, many of them by poison gas and mass killings.

If convicted in the trial, Saddam could get his second death penalty following the first one he got from the trial of the Dujail case.