** Saddam appears for genocidal trial after sentence
Saddam Hussein trial resumes on genocide charges
BAGHDAD, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) — The ousted leader Saddam Hussein and six of his aides appeared in a Baghdad court Wednesday on charges of genocide against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s.
Meanwhile, a series of car and mortar barrages rocked the capital during the day, up to 21 and wounding some 77 others. Full story>>
Saddam appears for genocidal trial after sentence
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Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein addresses the court during his trial inside the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad Nov. 7, 2006. Saddam was back in court on Tuesday for the first time since he was sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity, facing separate charges of genocide of the Kurds. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) |
BAGHDAD, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) — Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein returned to court to face trial on genocide against Kurds on Tuesday, two days after being sentenced to hang in a separate trial, and urged Iraqis “to forgive, reconcile and shake hands.”
Saddam and two of his senior aides were on Sunday sentenced to on crimes against humanity in the trial of Dujail, in which 148 people were executed in the aftermath down on the town following a failed assassination attempt against Saddam in 1982. Full story>>
Saddam verdict rejoices Iraq’s Shiites, outraging Sunnis
| Several Iraqi youths protest against the sentence passed on former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 5, 2006. Iraq’s High Tribunal gave Saddam the sentence on Sunday, on charges related to the massacre of 148 Shi’ite men in Dujail after an assassination attempt against him in 1982. (Xinhua Photo) |
BAGHDAD, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — Shiites across Iraq have rejoiced at Saddam’s verdict, but the country’s outraged Sunnis slammed it as purely a political showcase. Iraq’s High Tribunal Sunday sentenced ousted President Saddam Hussein and two of his senior aides to by hanging for crimes against humanity in the Dujail case.
Tens of thousands of Shiites on Sunday took to the streets in Shiite areas and neighborhoods in Iraq to celebrate the verdict, asking for “a quick ” to Saddam.
”Sunday is a happy day for all Iraqis and I pray to God that the sentence will be carried out soon,” Hussein al-Shamari, a Shiite resident in Baghdad, told Xinhua.
