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/ 28 February 2006
Iraqi prosecutors submitted to the court trying Saddam Hussein on Tuesday what they said was an execution order signed by the former Iraqi dictator, as his lawyers once again stormed out of the tribunal. Documents were presented linking Saddam to the trial and execution of 148 villagers from Dujail, north of Baghdad.
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/ 27 February 2006
The turbulent trial of Saddam Hussein and seven former cohorts resumes on Tuesday with the ousted dictator ending a hunger strike and his lawyers considering lifting their boycott of the court. After a hearing on February 14, Saddam announced that he was on a hunger strike amid chaotic scenes.
Many of Baghdad’s Shiite and Sunni Muslims on Wednesday rallied behind embattled firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr whose banned militia is facing a nationwide assault by US-led coalition forces. Al-Sadr meanwhile called for power in Iraq to be handed over to ”honest men” and not to collaborators of the US-led occupation.