At least 14 people were killed and 75 wounded in a car bomb attack in central Baghdad on Wednesday, which targeted the convoy of Industry Minister Fawzi al-Hariri, Interior Ministry sources said. Al-Hariri, a Kurd, was not in the convoy when it was attacked. Two of his bodyguards were among those killed, Dhuha Mohammed, an Industry Ministry spokesperson, said.
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/ 26 September 2006
Saddam Hussein was ejected from his genocide trial for a third day on Tuesday and his co-defendants tried to storm out after him, as chaos reined following the sacking of the chief judge last week. Judge Mohammed al-Ureybi had opened the hearing with a lecture to Saddam not to disrupt the proceedings.
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/ 19 September 2006
A former Kurdish guerrilla fighter removed his shirt in a marbled Baghdad courtroom on Tuesday to show what he said were scars caused by a chemical attack ordered by Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. Iskandar Mahmoud Abdul-Rahman told how he and other comrades from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan were gassed after fleeing to a village in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region.
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/ 12 September 2006
An Iraqi Kurd told Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial on Tuesday how his mother and sisters’ remains were found in a mass grave more than 200km from their village. A defiant Saddam defended his policy of crushing Kurdish rebels and shouted before the judge cut his microphone: ”You are agents of Iran and Zionism. We will crush your heads!”