Saddam tells judge will stop attending hearings
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Saddam Hussein wrote to the judge in the ethnic Kurdish genocide trial to tell him he would no longer attend court sessions to protest against being repeatedly silenced from speaking, his chief lawyer said on Tuesday.
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A Kurdish farmer told a judge on   Thursday how a furious Saddam Hussein shouted "shut up and get   out" when he pleaded for the life of his wife and seven young   children, who were rounded up in their village in 1988.
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BAGHDAD - Two top aides to ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, including his lieutenant Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as &quot;Chemical Ali,&quot; appeared at a pre-trial hearing on Saturday, an Iraqi judge said.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein  appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what  he called U.S. efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers  said on Sunday.
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A verdict in the first trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein will not be issued on Oct. 16 as scheduled, and the judges are considering whether to recall some witnesses, a court spokesman said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD -- On trial facing genocide charges, Saddam Hussein used his courtroom time yesterday to urge Iraqis to resist forces he said were trying to divide the country.
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War crimes trials against the toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his closest aides started on Saturday when Iraqi judges interrogated Saddamâs cousin known as &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; and the former defense minister.
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The chief judge ejected one of Saddam Hussein's defense lawyers on Wednesday for "insulting the court" in the former Iraqi leader's trial for genocide in a military offensive against Kurds in the 1980s.
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Saddam Hussein lasted two hours in   court on Monday before the judge threw him out of his genocide   trial for the second time in as many sessions, as the former   Iraqi president's lawyers boycotted proceedings.
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Iraq's government said on Tuesday it   had sacked the chief judge trying Saddam Hussein on genocide   charges, saying he had abandoned his neutrality by stating that   the ousted leader was not a dictator.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 20 -- Saddam Hussein's lawyers stormed out of his genocide trial on Wednesday to protest a government attempt to sack the tribunal's chief judge, a move against the theoretically independent judiciary that has pitched the troubled trial into chaos.
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The judge in Saddam Hussein's trial warns him to behave himself or be thrown out of court for a third time.
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BAGHDAD -- Saddam Hussein's lawyers stormed out of his genocide trial yesterday to protest a government attempt to sack the tribunal's chief judge, a move against the theoretically independent judiciary that has pitched the troubled trial into chaos.
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Saddam Hussein's lawyers urged Iraqis on Thursday to reject the former president's genocide trial, accusing the court of bias against him.
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BAGHDAD -- Three close associates of former president Saddam Hussein will move to the next stage of their legal cases before Christmas, when investigative judges will begin questioning them to gather facts for their trials, Iraqi government officials said
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A shaken 57-year-old Kurd testified Thursday that Saddam Hussein aggressively told him to "shut up" when he pleaded for the release of nine relatives who disappeared in an offensive on his northern Iraqi village nearly two decades ago.
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A court trying Saddam Hussein for genocide against ethnic Kurds in 1988 agreed on Monday to a prosecution request to stop listening to more witnesses, a move that could speed up proceedings in the three-month trial.