They are charged in the deaths of more than 140 residents of Dujail following a failed attempt on Saddam's life while he visited the town in 1982. The proceedings are the first in what could be ...

Prosecutors are seeking to show that al-Bandar’s court gave the 148 Shia only a cursory trial on charges that they tried to assassinate Saddam in the town of Dujail in 1982 – and that Saddam ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 1, 2006— -- Other charges on the docket in the case against former Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein are better-known than the Dujail Massacre. In both preparation and ...

Meanwhile lawyers for two of the more minor defendants - Ali Daeem Ali and Mohammed Azawi Ali, both former Baath party officials for the Dujail area - give their closing statements. One of the ...

Tariq Aziz was the first witness to give evidence in defence of Saddam Hussein who, along with seven co-defendants, is charged in connection with the deaths of 148 Shias from the town of Dujail.

Five Iraqi judges sentenced Saddam and two other senior members of his regime to death by hanging on Nov. 5 for the killings in the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, following a 1982 attempt there ...

Saddam Trial Set to Begin The first case before the Iraqi Special Tribunal examines Saddam Hussein's retaliation on the entire city of Dujail, in response to a botched assassination attempt. In an ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Saddam Hussein, the iron-fisted dictator who ruled Iraq for nearly a quarter of a century, was found guilty of crimes against humanity Sunday and sentenced to death by hanging.

More than 20 years later, the people of Dujail still come to a makeshift memorial to mourn, clutching worn copies of the execution order signed by Saddam Hussein that lists over 140 men from the town.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A former judge for Saddam Hussein’s revolutionary court took the stand yesterday at the Iraqi tribunal and insisted that the death sentences he imposed on 148 Shiite Muslims in ...