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Saddam Hussein-era officials face new trial in Iraq

24/11/2008 8:54:00 AM.  | AAP
An Iraqi court has opened a new trial against 16 top former Saddam Hussein-era officials, including the former dictator's cousin, known as Chemical Ali, and Tariq Aziz, the man once considered the international face of Hussein's regime.

They're accused in the brutal repression of Shi'ite riots after the 1999 assassination of the father of anti-US cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr.

Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq Al-Sadr was one of the most powerful Shi'ite clerics in Iraq in the 1990s.

He was killed with two of his sons in an ambush on February 20, 1999 that his followers blame on Saddam's agents.

It's the fifth trial of top Saddam-era figures.

Australian Associated Press

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Tuesday, 02 December 2008

you would think bushes biggest regret would have been the tremendous loss of life caused by the invasion?

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