[Mb-civic] Iraqi Panel Files Case Against Hussein - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

<>Iraqi Panel Files Case Against Hussein
Deposed Leader Accused In 1982 Shiite Massacre

By Andy Mosher
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, July 18, 2005; Page A01

BAGHDAD, July 17 -- The first criminal case has been filed against 
former president Saddam Hussein for his alleged role in a 1982 massacre 
of more than 150 people, and he may be tried as early as September, the 
chief investigative judge of Iraq's special tribunal announced Sunday.

Hussein, who was president of Iraq from 1979 until the U.S.-led invasion 
in 2003, has been in U.S. custody since he was captured in December of 
that year. The tribunal's investigators have sifted through evidence of 
his alleged involvement in about a dozen atrocities committed while he 
was in power.

<>The 1982 massacre in the Shiite Muslim village of Dujail was a 
relatively minor incident in Hussein's reign, compared with other 
massacres, such as a chemical weapons attack that killed an estimated 
5,000 ethnic Kurds in the northern town of Halabja in 1988, and the 
brutal suppression of a revolt by Shiites after the 1991 Persian Gulf War

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/17/AR2005071700247.html
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