"The dossier has been completed and it will take two days to examine it and then it will be presented to the tribunal," said Jaafar al-Mussawi.

Around 180,000 Kurds were killed and 4,500 villages destroyed during the 1987-1989 campaign known as Anfal, which means "spoils of war."

Saddam, who is currently on trial for a 1982 massacre of 148 Shiite villagers from the town of Dujail, is expected to be tried later for the Anfal killings, though no trial date has been set.

Saddam and his seven former aides are being tried on charges of crimes against humanity and could face the death penalty if found guilty.

Mussawi also said that new documents have come to light in the ongoing case against Saddam.

"They involve communications and messages exchanged between high officials" of the previous regime over the Dujail affair, Mussawi told AFP.

"These documents implicate the accused and they will be submitted to the tribunal," he added.

Iraqi High Tribunal chief judge Rauf Abdel Rahman had ordered during the March 15 session that all previous documents be authenticated by experts after defendants questioned the authenticity of documents linking them to the Dujail massacre.