Kurds: Hussein's Quick Execution Was Justice Denied
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By Omar Sinan and Kathy Gannon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  HALABJA, Iraq -- These are bitter times in the town that Saddam Hussein gassed.  It's painful enough that many people still suffer the aftereffects of nerve and mustard gas nearly 20 years ago.
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One of Saddam Hussein&#39;s lawyers says the former Iraqi leader is refusing food, despite reports to the contrary. French lawyer Emmanuel Ludot says he wants the International Red Cross to check on Saddam&#39;s condition.
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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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One of the defendants in the new trial of Saddam Hussein insisted on Tuesday that the military was attacking only Iranian troops and Kurdish rebels when it launched the Anfal campaign in the 1980s in which tens of thousands of Kurds were killed.
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Iraq's prime minister Wednesday disputed Blackwater USA's version of a weekend shooting that left at least 11 people dead, saying he cannot tolerate "the killing of our citizens in cold blood."
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BAGHDAD -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein were found guilty yesterday of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the slaughter of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
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ARBIL, Iraq  - A genocidal campaign under Saddam Hussein against Iraq's Kurds must never be forgotten, officials said on Monday at a ceremony for 371 victims, whose grieving relatives demanded those responsible be put to death.
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Saddam Hussein was back in court in   Baghdad on Monday for the latest hearing in his trial for   genocide against ethnic Kurds but his defense lawyers stayed   away in protest after the Iraqi government fired the judge.
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BAGHDAD, June 24 -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein were found guilty on Sunday of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the slaughter of as many as 180,000 Kurds in northern Iraq in the late 1980s.
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SADDAM Hussein's enforcer 'Chemical Ali' was yesterday sentenced to hang for masterminding genocide against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s.  Ali Hassan al-Majeed, Saddam's cousin, trembled as the judge read the verdict.
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An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced to death Saddam Hussein's cousin, widely known as Chemical Ali, for genocide against ethnic Kurds.
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The United Nations has refused a U.S. request to assist Iraqi judges and prosecutors seeking to try former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants for war crimes, saying that a new Iraqi special tribunal  includes a death penalty provision opposed by the United Nations and fails to meet the minimum standards of justice.
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The family of an Iraqi civilian who was allegedly beaten to death by British troops won a court challenge against the government's refusal to order an inquiry into his death.
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Graphic footage of dead Kurdish civilians allegedly killed in chemical attacks is shown at Saddam Hussein's trial.
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Lawyers for Saddam Hussein and two former aides sentenced to death lodged appeals on Sunday, the Iraqi chief prosecutor said, following a trial slammed by some human rights experts as unfair and flawed.
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The United Nations has rejected  a request from Iraqi leaders to train some 30 judges and  prosecutors who would be trying former President Saddam  Hussein, in part because Baghdad has the death penalty, a U.N.  spokesman said on Friday.
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The US military is denying a report that Saddam Hussein has begun a jailhouse hunger strike, and says the ousted Iraqi leader had eaten on Sunday.