Iraq to Try Saddam Aides in Election Run-Up
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Iraq will put some of Saddam Hussein's top lieutenants on trial next week, a month before a national election many hope will lay the ghosts of his rule, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Tuesday.
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Baghdad -- Judicial proceedings will begin next week against some of the most senior leaders under former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister said Tuesday in a surprising announcement that put the past government&#39;s crimes before
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Iraq&#39;s interim premier Iyad Allawi has announced that leaders in Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime will go on trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes next week.
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Iraq&#39;s toppled leader Saddam Hussein and his top aides will go on trial within weeks, Iraqi Minister of State Kasim Daoud said on Sunday.
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Iraq will put some of Saddam Hussein's  top lieutenants on trial next week, a month before a national  election many hope will lay the ghosts of his rule, interim  Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Tuesday.
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U.N. and U.S. officials that Iraq's interim government may try to eliminate candidates through pressure on the electoral commission.
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For the first time since the removal of Saddam Hussein, Iraqis will go to the polls to elect a new leader. Elections are to be held on January 30th to choose Iraq&#39;s 275-seat national assembly, a Kurdish national
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Iraq&#39;s election commission said Friday it would consider a call by top political parties to postpone the planned January election.
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Iraq said yesterday it had captured a top foreign-based supporter of the anti-government insurgency and would begin to try former figures of Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime next week.
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Iraq will bring top figures of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime to court next week for the first time since they appeared before a judge five months ago, and formal indictments could be issued next month. Many have been in custody for more than a year and have not met with lawyers, prompting Saddam's attorneys to cry foul.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as  "Chemical Ali," will be the first of Saddam Hussein's top  deputies to face trial, Iraq's defense minister said on  Wednesday.
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Iraqi judges have begun questioning two of Saddam Hussein&#39;s top 11 lieutenants in preparation for war crimes trials involving the former regime.
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The top vote-getters in Iraq's national elections huddled Monday to bargain over posts in the next government, and Kurdish parties appeared in a pivotal position to install the first president of their ethnic minority in Iraq's history.
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Iraq&#39;s electoral commission has said it will consider a request from leading political parties to delay general elections scheduled for 30 January.
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Iraq&#39;s interim government intends to proceed with elections in January even if the United Nations withdraws its experts from the country
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Iraqi officials say Jan. 30 has been set as the new date for the war-torn country&#39;s first national elections since a US-led military coalition toppled Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime.
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Iraq announced Wednesday that a feared aide to Saddam Hussein nicknamed &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; will be the first of the toppled dictator&#39;s henchmen to be tried as Prime Minister Iyad Allawi