Saddam and aides ejected from genocide trial
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Saddam Hussein was ejected from his   genocide trial for a third consecutive time on Tuesday as chaos   reigned following the sacking of the chief judge last week.
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A new legal chapter opens Monday for Saddam Hussein when the ousted Iraqi leader goes on trial for a second time, charged with genocide and war crimes from his scorched-earth offensive against Kurds nearly two decades ago.
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Saddam Hussein's lawyers walked out of his trial Wednesday to protest the replacement of the chief judge for allegedly favoring the defense.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein, facing   charges of genocide, and six co-defendants resumed on Wednesday   in a central Baghdad courtroom.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein and six   former commanders on charges of launching a genocidal campaign   against Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s resumed in a   Baghdad courtroom on Tuesday.
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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 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.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq  -- The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial was replaced Tuesday amid complaints from Shiite and Kurdish officials that he was too easy on the deposed Iraqi leader.
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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 sacrificed his neutrality by stating   last week the ousted leader was not a dictator.
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Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein appears in court as his trial over the genocide of Kurds resumes.
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Saddam Hussein is ordered out of court by the new chief judge at his genocide trial in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 14 -- The judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial told the toppled Iraqi leader on Thursday that he wasn't "a dictator," one day after prosecutors accused the judge of bias and demanded his resignation.
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The judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide   trial said on Thursday he did not think the ousted Iraqi leader   was a "dictator," prompting a spokesman for the U.S.-sponsored   court to defend its impartiality.
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Saddam Hussein's trial on genocide charges against the Kurds resumed Monday after an 11-day break. The court was expected to hear more witnesses against the former Iraqi president and six other co-defendants, who have pleaded innocent to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for their alleged roles in a military offensive against the Kurds, codenamed Operation Anfal.
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For the second time in a week, the chief judge in the Saddam Hussein genocide trial ordered the deposed leader from the courtroom. Hussein was also ejected on Wednesday.
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Saddam Hussein was thrown out of court   again on Monday and his lawyers did not show up at all, but the   new judge appointed by the Iraqi government in mid-trial   pressed on with hearing Kurdish witnesses to alleged genocide.
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Specific sentences and charges against the six former Saddam Hussein regime officials in the so-called Anfal trial in Iraq, according to the International Center for Transitional Justice: