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Saddam trial adjourned until 28.Novermber
19.10.2005
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Baghdad, 19 Oct.
(AKI) - The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven
members of his former regime has been adjourned
until 28 November. All eight defendents had already
pleaded not guilty to the charge against them of
being behind the killing of more than 140 Shiites by
government forces in 1982 in the town of al-Dujail
in retaliation for an assassination attempt on
Saddam.
The adjournment was expected, as the defence team
had said they did not have enough to prepare their
case.
Earlier as the trial began, a defiant Saddam refused
to follow the court's procedures when asked to
identify himself, questioning the judge's
credentials and dismissing the court as not legal.
"I reserve my constitutional right not to proceed,"
he told Rizgar Mohammed Amin, the Kurdish judge
overseeing the trial.
"One of the negative aspects of this court is that I
don't recognise the party that has appointed you,"
he concluded, before sitting back down. |
Former dictator Saddam Hussein
Photo : REUTERS
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At least one other defendent also refused to
identify himself because the court had taken away
his Arab headdress for security reasons and as an
Arab it was insulting to him. Four of the defendents
were then given back their chequered headscarves.
Saddam's co-defendents are his former intelligence
chief Barazan Ibrahim who is also his half-brother,
former vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan, former
chief judge Awad Hamed al-Bandar and four Baath
party officials.
Before the trial was adjourned, the prosecutor said
he had evidence that Saddam Hussein himself signed
the death warrant for the 148 Shiite men of al-Dujail
who were executed or tortured to death with no
proper trial.
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