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Updated: 2:52 PM Dec 4, 2005
Saddam Hussein’s Trial Set To Resume Again Monday
The on-again off-again trial of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is scheduled to resume again Monday. Posted: 11:30 PM Dec 4, 2005 |
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Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is due back in court Monday as his on-again off-again trial resumes in Baghdad.
The trial was adjourned on Nov. 28 as proceedings resumed briefly after a five-week break to give the defense more time to prepare.
The adjournment was ordered after two members of the defense team were killed and a third was injured.
Saddam’s defense team meanwhile, has gained two members, including former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who represented surviving Branch Davidians in their unsuccessful lawsuit against the government over the deadly fire that engulfed the group’s compound in 1993 outside of Waco.
Clark was scheduled to meet with Saddam on Sunday.
Saddam and seven co-defendants are charged in the deaths of more than 140 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam.
They face death by hanging if they’re convicted.
Saddam pleaded innocent to charges of murder, torture, forced expulsions and illegal detentions at the trial's opening session last month.
Saddam was captured on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003 after 600 4th Infantry Division soldiers and Special Forces troops raided two locations in a rural area around his hometown of Tikrit.
Soldiers found the former Iraqi leader hiding in a specially prepared six-to-eight-feet-deep "spider hole."
Saddam was taken into custody without resistance, and without a shot being fired.
After invading Iraq on Mar. 20, 2003 and setting up their headquarters in Saddam's sprawling Republican Palace compound in Baghdad, U.S. troops launched a massive manhunt for the fugitive leader, placing a $25 million bounty on his head and sending thousands of soldiers to search for him.
Saddam's sons Qusai and Odai - each with a $15 million bounty on his head- were killed July 22, 2003 in a four-hour gun battle with U.S. troops in a hideout in the northern city of Mosul.
The bounties were paid out to the man who owned the house where they were killed, residents said.
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