Empty chair as "Saddam" trial resumes


  • World
  • Monday, 08 Jan 2007

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - All eyes will be on the empty chair in the dock on Monday when the genocide trial of the ousted Iraqi leadership resumes in Baghdad. 

Nine days after Saddam Hussein was hanged, the former president's cousin "Chemical Ali" Hassan al-Majeed and six other Baath party officials are back in court accused of trying to wipe out Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the northern mountains in 1988. 

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