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Iraq on guard for the coming verdict
on Saddam
BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraq canceled leave
Friday for all military officers ahead of Sunday's verdict in Saddam Hussein's
trial for crimes against humanity to prepare for possible violent outbursts in
a month already bloodied by a spasm of killings.
Former President Saddam and seven former regime officials
are accused of ordering the deaths of 148 Shiites in the village of Dujail,
north of Baghdad, where the deposed president escaped an assassination attempt
in 1982. Saddam could be sentenced to death. Full story>>
Saddam faces possible death
sentence
BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Iraqi former president
Saddam Hussein's genocide trial against the Kurds in 1980s resumed on Wednesday
during which Kurdish witnesses told the court how they survived a massacre by
Saddam's death squad.
Iraqi court may announce Saddam
verdict on Nov. 5
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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