The Mirror - The multinational legal team is still awaiting permission to visit the deposed Iraqi ruler.
A letter demanding their doctor be given access to the former dictator was yesterday sent by Jordanian lawyer Mohammed al-Rashdan to Salem Chalebi, the head of the Iraqi prosecuting authorities.
Mr al-Rashdan said: "Our information is that he's in very poor health. We understand from the International Committee of the Red Cross that our client has had a brain scan to discover how badly he has been affected by the stroke. We believe he could die because of his health problems.
"We also think an attempt may be made on his life.
"We're very worried that we won't have a client to defend." He added: "Under the Geneva Convention we're entitled to have access to our client. But all our requests have been ignored."
In a form letter delivered by the Red Cross in January to his wife Sajida, living in Qatar, Saddam put a cross in boxes for "good health" and "slightly wounded".
"His finger appears to have been wounded, possibly by gunshot, when he was captured," said Mr Rashdan. "But we believe his health has deteriorated.
If you ask me his lawyers are just looking for sympathuy. And honestly, even if he is struggling with his health, I'm not sure anybody cares. I certainly don't.
Let him struggle. He's gotten better care in his jail cell then he ever would have in that hole our troops found him in. If his health truly is deterioriating he would have been dead long ago had he not been captured.
Update:
Just as I thought, this is most likely a rumor or a ploy by the defense.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi human rights minister says ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is in good health, although he refuses to consent to a biopsy.
Iraq's human rights minister says Saddam suffers from a chronic prostate infection. He told Al-Jazeera television that X-rays and blood tests don't show it's anything more serious than that, but Saddam refuses to undergo a biopsy to prove he doesn't have cancer.
A member of Saddam's defense team wants the Iraqi government to allow the former leader to see a neutral doctor, after receiving information that Saddam had suffered a stroke.
A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross dismisses the talk of illness as "rumors spread by the media." The group has visited Saddam twice.