综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

   

Court drops Kurd charges against Saddam

(AP)
Updated: 2007-01-09 06:52

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein had been dead nine days but his voice resounded through the courtroom Monday as he and his cousin "Chemical Ali" discussed killing thousands of Kurds in the 1980s, according to audiotapes played at their war crimes trial.


Ali Hassan al-Majeed (C), also known as 'Chemical Ali,' in the southern Iraqi province of Basra in a 1991 file photo. [Reuters]

Saddam's physical presence was gone - his chair in the white metal pen where the defendants sit was empty - but his aura still hung over the proceedings against his former regime members.

Special coverage:
Saddam Hussein Hanged 

Related readings:
 raq orders probe of Saddam execution
 Military nurse recalls softer Saddam Saddam buried in Iraq hometown
 Timing of Saddam execution risks Arab backlash
 FM spokesman comments on Saddam's execution title 1
 Saddam had feisty exchange at gallows 
 Saddam compliant, calm in final moments

 TV footage shows Saddam's body
  World leaders welcome, condemn Saddam's execution

The trial reconvened for the first time since Dec. 21 and a little more than a week since Saddam was hanged for the killing of 148 Shiites after an assassination attempt in the town of Dujail in 1982.

Meanwhile, new video of Saddam's corpse shortly after the hanging was posted on the Internet. It showed a gaping wound on Saddam's neck, with his head unnaturally twisted at a 90 degree angle to his right.

The video appeared to have been taken with a camera phone, like the graphic video of the hanging which showed guards taunting Saddam in the final moments of his life.

The court's first order of business Monday was to dismiss all charges against Saddam. His co-defendants - including his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali" - remain in the dock for allegedly killing 180,000 Kurds in the 1980s as Iraq fought a protracted war with Iran.

Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon aired graphic video during Monday's court session of scores of bodies in trucks and in piles on the street, overlaid with a voice purported to be that of al-Majid saying, "I will hit them with chemical weapons."

"Damn the international community if they say anything. I will strike them all with chemical weapons," the voice continued.

Another audiotape had a voice identified as Saddam's warning, "These weapons are only used at my orders." He also reassured colleagues that the weapons "kill by the thousands."

"It will force them out of their homes without water or food. It makes them evacuate their homes naked," the voice said.

In court, Al-Majid described the video as "painful," but said it showed the work of Iranian troops, not Iraqis. As for the audio, al-Majid did not deny the voices were his and Saddam's.

The tapes "not only condemn me, but the whole path that I was part of - the path of Saddam Hussein," al-Majid said.
12  


Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
黔南| 缙云县| 砀山县| 宝鸡市| 奎屯市| 博野县| 玛纳斯县| 惠东县| 安泽县| 泸溪县| 台南县| 肥城市| 哈密市| 青浦区| 九龙坡区| 封开县| 永福县| 上林县| 揭阳市| 淄博市| 肇源县| 丹寨县| 石门县| 崇明县| 乌兰县| 泸溪县| 苏尼特左旗| 华池县| 靖安县| 英吉沙县| 洪江市| 牡丹江市| 福泉市| 和田县| 石家庄市| 德兴市| 池州市| 明溪县| 铁岭市| 蒲江县| 德清县|