Special report: Trial of Saddam Hussein

   BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The trial of the toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and six of his co-defendants resumed in a Baghdad court on Thursday.

   Saddam, his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali", and five former commanders face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their role in Anfal operation in 1988, which the chief prosecutor said left some 182,000 people dead or missing.

   Saddam is awaiting a possible death sentence verdict for a separate case involving the killing of some 148 Shiite countrymen in the village of Dujail.

   All the main charges in Anfal case could carry the death penalty. Enditem