Tribunal: 2nd Saddam trial to open Aug. 21

[Eugene]

Posted on Tue, Jun. 27, 2006

Tribunal: 2nd Saddam trial to open Aug. 21
SAMEER N. YACOUB
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants will stand trial starting
Aug. 21 for his 1980s military campaign against Kurds, Iraq's High Tribunal said
Tuesday.

An estimated 100,000 Kurds were killed in the operation in northern Iraq. Known
as "Anfal," Arabic for "spoils of war," the campaign was aimed at crushing
independence-minded Kurdish militias and clearing out the Kurdish population along
the sensitive Iranian border.

Saddam had accused Kurdish militias of ties to Iran. Thousands of Kurdish villages
were razed and their inhabitants either killed or displaced.

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Others accused in the Anfal case include Saddam's cousin, Ali Hassan Majid, or
"Chemical Ali;" former Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad; former intelligence
chief Saber Abdul Aziz al-Douri; former Republican Guard commander Hussein al-Tikriti;
former Nineveh provincial Gov. Taher Tafwiq al-Ani; and former top military commander
Farhan Mutlaq al-Jubouri.

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Full article: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/14911612.htm

[Roland99]

1. Didn't the US gov't say back then Saddam had attacked Iranians, not Kurds?