Two days after receiving death sentence, Saddam back in court
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(7 Nov 2006) 1. Wide
(7 Nov 2006)
1. Wide shot of defendants, defendant Sabir Abdul-Aziz al-Douri, former intelligence director, walking to seat
2. Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi speaking
3. Defendant, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, cousin of Saddam Hussein, senior Baath party member, seated in dock
4. Defendant, former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, seated in dock
5. Various of court session as defendants take their seats
6. Witness Qahar Khalil Mohammed speaking
7. Defendant, Tahir Taufiq, senior Baath party member
8. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish) Kurdish witness: Qahar Khalil Mohammed:
++NOT VERBATIM - INCLUDES CUTAWAYS++
"When they fired in our direction, we all fell to the ground."
9. Chief Judge giving Saddam permission to talk, saying: "Please."
10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, defendant and former Iraqi leader:
"All the complainers (witnesses) come to the court and talk freely without any objection and the court starts recording their testimonies. But no one, neither Arabs nor Kurds, uphold their testimonies. Is this the method that will help bring us to truth?"
11. Witness showing signs of torture in his back
12. Prosecutor talking
13. Wide shot of defendants (former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, bottom right; Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, bottom left; former Defence Minister Sultan Hashim, centre right; former senior officer Hussein Rasheed, centre centre; former intelligence director Sabir Abdul-Aziz al-Douri, centre left; senior Baath party member Tahir Taufiq, top right; cousin of Saddam Hussein and senior Baath party member Ali Hassan al-Majeed, top left)
STORYLINE:
Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein returned to court in Baghdad on Tuesday for his genocide trial, two days after another panel convicted him of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang.
Saddam found his way quietly to his seat among the other six defendants charged in the Operation Anfal crackdown against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s.
The first witness of the day, Qahar Khalil Mohammed, told the court that he and other men from his village surrendered to Iraqi soldiers after being promised that Saddam had issued an amnesty for them.
Instead soldiers opened fire on the 33 men, killing many of them.
Mohammed said he was wounded but survived.
"When they fired in our direction, we all fell to the ground," he testified.
He said an Iraqi medical officer used a broken bottle to clean his wound and showed the court scars he said were caused in the incident.
Saddam complained respectfully to the judge that the witnesses were not giving incriminating testimony, and that they were not being adequately cross-examined.
The prosecution says about 180-thousand Kurds, most of them civilians, were killed in the crackdown in 1987-88.
The Anfal trial will continue while an appeal in the Dujail case is under way.
On Sunday, another five-judge panel convicted Saddam in the deaths of nearly 150 Shiite Muslims following a 1982 assassination attempt against him in the town of Dujail in 1982.
He and two others were sentenced to death by hanging.
Four co-defendants received lesser sentences and one was acquitted.
On Monday, the chief prosecutor in the Dujail case said a nine-judge appeals panel was expected to rule on Saddam's guilty verdict and death sentence by the middle of January.
That could set in motion a possible execution by mid-February.
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1. Wide shot of defendants, defendant Sabir Abdul-Aziz al-Douri, former intelligence director, walking to seat
2. Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi speaking
3. Defendant, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, cousin of Saddam Hussein, senior Baath party member, seated in dock
4. Defendant, former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, seated in dock
5. Various of court session as defendants take their seats
6. Witness Qahar Khalil Mohammed speaking
7. Defendant, Tahir Taufiq, senior Baath party member
8. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish) Kurdish witness: Qahar Khalil Mohammed:
++NOT VERBATIM - INCLUDES CUTAWAYS++
"When they fired in our direction, we all fell to the ground."
9. Chief Judge giving Saddam permission to talk, saying: "Please."
10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, defendant and former Iraqi leader:
"All the complainers (witnesses) come to the court and talk freely without any objection and the court starts recording their testimonies. But no one, neither Arabs nor Kurds, uphold their testimonies. Is this the method that will help bring us to truth?"
11. Witness showing signs of torture in his back
12. Prosecutor talking
13. Wide shot of defendants (former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, bottom right; Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, bottom left; former Defence Minister Sultan Hashim, centre right; former senior officer Hussein Rasheed, centre centre; former intelligence director Sabir Abdul-Aziz al-Douri, centre left; senior Baath party member Tahir Taufiq, top right; cousin of Saddam Hussein and senior Baath party member Ali Hassan al-Majeed, top left)
STORYLINE:
Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein returned to court in Baghdad on Tuesday for his genocide trial, two days after another panel convicted him of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to hang.
Saddam found his way quietly to his seat among the other six defendants charged in the Operation Anfal crackdown against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s.
The first witness of the day, Qahar Khalil Mohammed, told the court that he and other men from his village surrendered to Iraqi soldiers after being promised that Saddam had issued an amnesty for them.
Instead soldiers opened fire on the 33 men, killing many of them.
Mohammed said he was wounded but survived.
"When they fired in our direction, we all fell to the ground," he testified.
He said an Iraqi medical officer used a broken bottle to clean his wound and showed the court scars he said were caused in the incident.
Saddam complained respectfully to the judge that the witnesses were not giving incriminating testimony, and that they were not being adequately cross-examined.
The prosecution says about 180-thousand Kurds, most of them civilians, were killed in the crackdown in 1987-88.
The Anfal trial will continue while an appeal in the Dujail case is under way.
On Sunday, another five-judge panel convicted Saddam in the deaths of nearly 150 Shiite Muslims following a 1982 assassination attempt against him in the town of Dujail in 1982.
He and two others were sentenced to death by hanging.
Four co-defendants received lesser sentences and one was acquitted.
On Monday, the chief prosecutor in the Dujail case said a nine-judge appeals panel was expected to rule on Saddam's guilty verdict and death sentence by the middle of January.
That could set in motion a possible execution by mid-February.
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