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/ 7 December 2006
A Kurdish doctor told Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial on Thursday that children vomited blood, animals died and people sustained skin rashes and itching following a flower-smelling gas that blanketed his northern Kurdish village in a 1987 military offensive under the deposed regime.
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/ 8 November 2006
A defence lawyer in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial demanded on Wednesday that the court investigate the alleged ransacking of the defence team’s office in the United States-controlled Green Zone. The demand was made by counsel Badee Izzat Aref as the trial resumed with Saddam and the six co-defendants present.
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/ 10 November 2005
Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three United States-registered hotels in the Jordanian capital on Wednesday night, killing at least 57 people and wounding up to 300 in an al-Qaeda-style assault on the Arab kingdom with close ties to the US and a border with Iraq. Deputy Prime Minister Marwan Muasher said most of those killed were Jordanians.