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/ 16 September 2004
Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton on Thursday in a brazen attack on a house in an upmarket Baghdad neighbourhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq.
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A defiant Saddam Hussein mocked his accusers in a landmark court appearance in Iraq on Thursday, describing the process as "theatre" and calling United States President George Bush the real criminal. An unrepentant Saddam refused to sign legal papers after seven charges were read against him.