Judge says Saddam 'not dictator'
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Saddam Hussein's trial judge says he was not a dictator, a day after being accused of pro-Saddam bias.
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Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants will take a step closer to trial in the coming weeks but don't expect an O.J. Simpson-style courtroom drama, a Western legal expert involved in the process said on Wednesday.
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Several of Saddam Hussein's jailed  deputies have been refusing food but Saddam himself is not on  hunger strike on the eve of the first anniversary of his  capture, an officer in charge of detainees said on Sunday.
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A military judge ruled Monday that statements by President Bush and military leaders about alleged Abu Ghraib abuses do not appear specific enough to taint the jury pool for next month's trial of a reputed ringleader in the case.
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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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The executions of three former officials in Saddam Hussein's regime can be carried out without presidential decrees because of the scale of their crimes, a judge said Monday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi judges have started interrogating Saddam Hussein&#39;s former defense minister and the notorious general known as Chemical Ali, who is accused of gassing thousands of Kurds in the 1980s, the head judge in charge of investigating
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Reports that Saddam Hussein's former top aide Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is in custody prove unfounded.
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OSNABRUECK, Germany  - The judge in the court  martial of three British soldiers accused of abusing and  sexually humiliating Iraqi detainees urged public figures on  Thursday to avoid commenting on the case.
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The chief prosecutor in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein accuses the judge of bias towards the defendant.
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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 -- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial was replaced yesterday amid complaints from Shi'ite and Kurdish officials that he was too soft on the former Iraqi leader, a move that could raise accusations of government interference in the highly sensitive case.
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The judge in Saddam Hussein's trial throws Saddam Hussein out of court for the third time in a week.
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Iraq's government has asked the   U.S.-backed court trying Saddam Hussein on genocide charges to   sack the chief judge, saying he had lost his "neutrality" after   stating the ousted leader was not a dictator.
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An Iraqi official said a man who is in custody is not a top deputy of former president Saddam Hussein, as had been suspected earlier.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A government official in Baghdad says the man known as &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; will be among the first figures from Saddam Hussein&#39;s former regime to be brought to court next week, in advance of their trials.
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OSNABRUECK, Germany  - The judge in the court  martial of three British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi  detainees urged public figures on Thursday to avoid commenting  on the case.