Video grab shows former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein listening to the proceedings of his trial in Baghdad December 21, 2005. (Xinhua/Reuters)

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    BAGHDAD, Dec 21. (Xinhua) -- The ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein said on Wednesday in the court that he was beaten by the Americans.

    "I have been hit by the Americans and tortured," he said in thecourt.

    "I've been beaten on every place of my body and the signs are all over my body," he added.

    The trial of the former president and seven of his codefendantsresumed in Baghdad on Wednesday with hearing a new witness over the Dujail massacre in 1982. Enditem