Saddam Hussein smiled and laughed as a half-brother testified in his defense Monday, comparing the U.S. military's 2004 assault on insurgents in Falluja to the bloody crackdown on Shiites allegedly ordered by the then-Iraqi leader in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt.
The chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial has said he will consider a request for the former Iraqi president and his half-brother to offer testimony on behalf of a co-defendant.
Saddam Hussein has claimed he is still president of Iraq as the chief judge at his trial formally charged him with murder, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 people in a crackdown against Shiites in 1982.
Iraq's parliament will convene Thursday, a government spokesman in Baghdad said Wednesday, in an effort to come to some agreement on the make-up of the government.
Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and seven others accused of crimes against humanity are back in court on Wednesday, one day after dramatic evidence was presented against the former leader.
Saddam Hussein returned to trial on Tuesday saying he and seven co-defendants had been staging a hunger strike to protest their treatment by the court.
Saddam Hussein's trial is set to resume on Monday, but the deposed Iraqi president may be a no-show in a case that has hit one snag after another since it began last October.
The trial of Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants adjourned Monday after a stormy session in which the toppled Iraqi leader created a scene by shouting "Down with Bush!"
Saddam Hussein smiled and laughed as a half-brother testified in his defense Monday, comparing the U.S. military's 2004 assault on insurgents in Falluja to the bloody crackdown on Shiites allegedly ordered by the then-Iraqi leader in 1982 after a failed assassination attempt.
The chief judge in the Saddam Hussein trial has said he will consider a request for the former Iraqi president and his half-brother to offer testimony on behalf of a co-defendant.
Saddam Hussein has claimed he is still president of Iraq as the chief judge at his trial formally charged him with murder, torture of women and children and the illegal arrest of 399 people in a crackdown against Shiites in 1982.
Iraq's parliament will convene Thursday, a government spokesman in Baghdad said Wednesday, in an effort to come to some agreement on the make-up of the government.
Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and seven others accused of crimes against humanity are back in court on Wednesday, one day after dramatic evidence was presented against the former leader.
Saddam Hussein returned to trial on Tuesday saying he and seven co-defendants had been staging a hunger strike to protest their treatment by the court.
Saddam Hussein's trial is set to resume on Monday, but the deposed Iraqi president may be a no-show in a case that has hit one snag after another since it began last October.
The trial of Saddam Hussein and his seven co-defendants adjourned Monday after a stormy session in which the toppled Iraqi leader created a scene by shouting "Down with Bush!"
Saddam Hussein stormed out of the courtroom at his war crimes trial Sunday after a new chief judge had his half brother forcibly removed from the proceedings by four guards.
In the latest delay involving the Saddam Hussein trial, Tuesday's court session was postponed five days because a number of witnesses were not able to attend, a court official told CNN.
A suicide car bomber blew up at an Iraqi police checkpoint Monday near the city's heavily fortified Green Zone, killing at least three people, an official with the Baghdad emergency police told CNN.
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