Two days after receiving death sentence, Saddam back in court

Описание: (7 Nov 2006)

1. Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi speaking
2. Defendant, former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein seated in dock
3. Defendant, Farhan Mutlaq Saleh
4. Chief judge
5. Defendant, Sultan Hashim, former Defence Minister
6. Defendant, Hussein Rasheed, former senior officer
7. Wide shot of defendants, defendant Sabir Abdul-Aziz al-Douri, former intelligence director, walking to seat
8. Chief judge Mohammed Oreibi
9. Defendant, Tahir Taufiq, senior Baath party member
10. Defendant, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, cousin of Saddam Hussein, senior Baath party member
11. Saddam Hussein
12. Wide shot of defendants
13. Chief judge Mohammed Oreibi
14. Wide shot of defendants
15. Witness Qahar Khalil Mohammed speaking
16. Various of court session

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 chief judge then convened the session and called the first witness, Qahar Khalil Mohammed.

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.

The Dujail case is subject to appeal, and the Anfal trial will continue while the appeal is underway.

On Monday, the chief prosecutor said the 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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