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Saddam trial to resume in 2006 January
23.12.2005
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Baghdad, 22 Dec.
(AKI) - The trial of Saddam Hussein has been
adjourned until 24 January after the court heard
three witnesses and held a brief closed session on
Thursday. Saddam reiterated his accusations that he
had been beaten up and tortured by US prison guards.
The previous day he told the Baghdad court that he
had been assaulted and his injuries took eight
months to heal. Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants
all face charges of crimes against humanity over the
Dujail massacre, which followed an assassination
attempt on the former dictator as his convoy passed
through the Shiite-dominated town.
During Thursday's hearing, at a high security court
within Baghdad's Green Zone, Saddam accused the
White House of lying about the way he was treated
and about what his regime had done, in particular
the claims that he possessed weapons of mass
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Former dictator Saddam Hussein
Photo : AFP
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There was a row between Saddam's co-defendant Barzan
al-Tikriti and a prosecutor, whom he accused of
being a former member of the governing Baath party.
The prosecutor called the accusation an insult and
asked to be relieved of his duties. The judge
refused.
The witnesses who have given evidence so far have
described beatings, starvation, sleep deprivation,
electrocutions and deaths at the Abu Ghraib prison.
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