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Iraq urges calm ahead of Saddam verdict By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press Writer 38 minutes ago SNIP BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister on Saturday urged his countrymen to accept the impending verdict against Saddam Hussein without violence, then in the next breath declared the former dictator must get "what he deserves" with the decision that could send him to the gallows.

Resumption of the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein BAGHDAD - the lawsuit of persons in charge for Ancien Régime Iraqi judged for the massacre of villager Shiites at the beginning of the years 1980 took again Monday in Baghdad in the presence of the eight marked ones, of which deposed president Saddam Hussein, according to a journalist of AFP. The audience started with the rejection of a request of the defense, formulated by Khalil Al-Doulaïmi, the lawyer of Saddam Hussein, to challenge the judge chairing the debates, the Kurd Raouf Rachid Abdel Rahmane.

I was just about to leave home to work when I heard a big bang… Uh, oh…I won't be able to reach the clinic today, I told Mohammed. The explosion was probably less than a mile away so I knew the roads around us would be soon blocked. And minutes later I found they were. I decided to go back to bed but then I heard that a new session of Saddam's trial was scheduled for today. Recalling the past few sessions, I thought that was a good idea to watch while lying on the couch as it would soon...

<p>BASRA, Iraq (AP) - Ali Hassan al-Majid, dubbed ``Chemical Ali'' by opponents of the Iraqi regime for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds, has been found dead, a British officer said Monday.</p> <p>Maj. Andrew Jackson of the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment told The Associated Press that his superiors had confirmed the death of the man who is also President Saddam Hussein's first cousin.</p> <p>Jackson said the body was found along with that of his bodyguard and the head of Iraqi intelligence services in Basra.</p>

The trial of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was postponed after the newly-appointed chief judge objected to being searched, a defence lawyer said Tuesday. "What happened was when the new judge came to the court he was searched vigorously by the Americans, which he did not like," said Najib al-Nuami, who represents Saddam. Rauf Rashid Abdel Rahman "complained about it, saying why should he be searched," according to Nuami. Another defence lawyer, who declined to be named, said he too heard the hearing was postponed because Abdel Rahman "was unhappy with security procedures, including searches". The court put off...

AMMAN, Jordan, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's lawyers said Sunday they are seeking to file a case against President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. President of the Jordan Bar Association, Saleh Armouti, who recently joined Saddam's defense team, told journalists the attorneys will seek Saddam's approval this week to file a law suit against the American and British leaders in a European international court. The lawyers want to try them on charges of illegally invading and occupying a sovereign country. [snip]

BAGHDAD, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The trial of Saddam Hussein resumed on Thursday and the former Iraqi president was in court. He entered the heavily fortified courtroom in Baghdad carrying a copy of the Koran at just before 11:30 a.m. (0830 GMT).

ALARM - Resumption of the lawsuit of Saddam Hussein BAGHDAD - the lawsuit of deposed president Saddam Hussein and seven of her co-defendants in the massacre of villager Shiites took again Wednesday in front of the High Iraqi penal court in Baghdad, brings back a correspondent of AFP.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2005 – In the summer of 1982, Mustafa Hassan Ali al-Doujaily watched the Iraqi army enter his hometown. Soldiers flattened date palm and fruit orchards and surrounded the town for months, beating and intimidating the populace into submission with systematic harassment, kidnappings and killings. Doujaily spoke with American Forces Press Service by telephone from his home in Iraq. More than 140 Shiite men and boys were killed, and several hundred more were captured -- including women and infants -- many of whom remain missing more than 20 years later. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein brought his wrath down...

DUJAIL, Iraq - The scars of what happened after an assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein, on July 8, 1982, are painfully evident in this mainly Shiite town 35 miles north of Baghdad. People lower their voices when they speak of fathers, brothers and sons who went to the gallows, their fates unknown until Mr. Hussein's overthrow 21 years later set off the ransacking of a secret police headquarters in Baghdad that uncovered official records of the executions. The landscape around Dujail is mostly barren scrubland, stark testament to the bulldozing of thousands of acres of date palms and fruit orchards...

BAGHDAD, Feb. 26 -- U.S. forces have arrested an Iraqi father and son accused of participating in a 1982 massacre in the predominantly Shiite Muslim village of Dujail in retaliation for an assassination attempt on then-President Saddam Hussein. Senior U.S. officials said in interviews that Abdulla Rwayid and Muzhir Abdulla Rwayid were arrested Monday and charged with crimes against humanity for their alleged role in the killing of hundreds of people associated with the Dawa party, a Shiite group that carried out the attempt on Hussein's life on July 8, 1982. Charges against the two detained men were referred to...

The massacre in a Shia village whose residents had tried to assassinate Saddam Hussein will take centre stage in one of the first trials of the dictator's henchmen.Residents of Dujail, a small farming settlement 40 miles north of Baghdad, plan to testify that their village was singled out for slaughter by Saddam's half-brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, in revenge for a brazen attack that nearly killed the dictator in 1982. The reprisals, in which more than 900 people were rounded up and tortured, are described by survivors as the "forgotten Halabja", a reference to the Kurdish village where 5,000 people died in...