BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The trial of Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity resumed on Wednesday and heard some of the strongest evidence yet linking the former Iraqi president and his co-defendants to torture.
A witness told the court that Saddam's guards applied electric shocks to detainees at the headquarters of his feared intelligence service, heated up plastic tubing and allowed the hot plastic to drip on to the bodies of their victims.
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