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President Talabani says Saddam verdict
after all cases
4.4.2006
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
said on Tuesday he expected Saddam Hussein to stand
trial for all cases filed against him before the
court reaches a verdict.
"I believe the court is working on a plan whereby he
will be tried for all the crimes then a verdict will
be handed down," he told a news conference.
Saddam is currently on trial in connection with the
killing of 148 Shiites in the village of Dujail
after an attempt on his life there in 1982 and he
faces charges in other cases, including genocide.
Each case could carry a death sentence if the former
Iraqi president is found guilty.
The special tribunal trying Saddam is expected to
make a major announcement at 1030 GMT.
Saddam
to face genocide charges
A prosecutor in the special tribunal said Saddam
could go on trial as early as next month on charges
of genocide against Kurds in the late 1980s,
the court trying him for crimes against humanity
said on Tuesday.
Prosecutors said Saddam, facing a possible death
sentence, could be brought to account as early as
next month for the killing of thousands of Kurds and
destruction of their villages. |
Iraqi
President : Jalal Talabani
Photo: Reuters
Former dictator Saddam Hussein
Photo : AFP
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Saddam's co-accused will include his cousin Ali
Hassan al-Majeed, known as "Chemical Ali" for his
role in a poison gas attack against the Kurdish
village of Halabja in 1988 that killed 5,000 people.
"We declare the investigations are completed in the
case called the Anfal campaign in which thousands of
women, children and men were killed. The accused are
being transferred to the criminal court," said court
spokesman Raid Jouhi.
"They will be tried according to the Iraqi law for
charges of genocide and crimes against humanity."
Some of Saddam's old enemies, former exiles who are
now political leaders, are struggling to form
postwar Iraq's first full-term government nearly
four months after parliamentary elections.
Reuters
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