Special report: Trial of Saddam
Hussein
BAGHDAD, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi court
trying the former leader Saddam Hussein and seven of his aides on charges of
crimes against humanity on Dujail case may announce its verdict over the crimes
on Nov. 5, a court official said on Monday.
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Raed Juhi
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Saddam Hussein
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"The court needed more time to finish reviewing
testimonies. If the judges have done with their job by Nov. 5, the presiding
judge will announce the verdict," Raed Juhi, spokesman of the Iraqi High
Tribunal told reporters.
On July 27, Chief Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman ordered
the trial of Saddam on Dujail case to adjourn until Monday, Oct. 16 in order to
allow the five-judge panel to review the testimonies and consider a verdict.
Prosecutors of Dujail case demanded Saddam be
sentenced to death penalty if found guilty of killing the 148 people from the
town of Dujail, some 70 km north of Baghdad, after a assassination attempt
against Saddam failed in 1982. Enditem
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Saddam Hussein appeares in court on Oct 11,
2006.(Xinhua/Reuters File Photo)
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