Lawyers defending the toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said Sunday they`re planning to file a law suit against the U.S President, George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the United Press International reported Sunday. Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Saleh Armouti, President of the Jordan Bar Association, who recently joined Saddam`s defense team, said that the lawyers plan to file a law suit against the American President and the British Prime Minister in a European international court, on charges of illegally invading and occupying Iraq. Saddam`s trial is set to resume Tuesday. Saddam and seven members of his former regime are facing charges of killing 148 Shias in the Iraqi town of Dujail north of Baghdad in 1982 after a failed attempt to assassinate the former Iraqi President. Saddam `s defense team will also ask for the immediate release of Saddam ”because his arrest is a violation of international charters after the United States declared an end to hostilities and war in Iraq,” Armouti said. The highest-ranking U.S. Army officer charged with killing a detainee in Iraq was found guilty of negligent homicide late Saturday in the death of an Iraqi general at a detention camp. But Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr was spared a conviction of murder that could have sent him to prison for life. A jury of six army officers found Welshofer not guilty of the murder of Maj-Gen Abed Hamed Mowhoush who dies in Iraq in 2003. The Army officer, now faces up to three years in jail for homi, was acquitted of assault after six hours of deliberations. Prosecutors said that Welshofer put a sleeping bag over the head of Mowhoush, sat on his chest and used his hand to cover the general`s mouth while asking him questions in 2003. It`s one of various cases involving death of prisoners the U.S. holds in Iraq and.