B A G H D A D, Iraq, July 1, 2004 -- Defiant, belligerent and a little anxious, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein appeared before a single Iraqi judge in a courtroom near Baghdad today to hear ...

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Television viewers in Iraq and the rest of the world might have expected a -perp walk,- with a downcast prisoner paraded before the cameras in handcuffs. Instead, they saw a carefully dressed, ...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- Saddam Hussein's lawyers say the former Iraqi president was roughed up in court this week. His lawyers say a man burst into the courtroom Thursday and tried to strike Saddam as ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was back in court on Tuesday to face charges of genocide against ethnic Kurds, two days after being sentenced to hang for the killing and torture ...

Saddam Hussein's trial resumed Monday for closing arguments, a day after the former Iraqi president was hospitalized and fed with a tube during his hunger strike to demand better security for his ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's highest court rejected Saddam Hussein's appeal Tuesday and said the former dictator must be hanged within 30 days for his role in the 1982 slayings of 148 Shiite Muslims from a ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Prosecutors tried to link Saddam Hussein directly to torture and executions, producing documents with his orders and handwriting and putting one of his closest confidants on the ...

Downcast but defiant, Saddam Hussein appears before an Iraqi court, declaring himself the "president of Iraq" and accusing President Bush of being the real criminal. The seven charges filed against ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Nearly two years after his capture, Saddam Hussein is finally facing trial for alleged crimes against fellow Iraqis. In some ways, Iraq also will be on trial, with the world watching ...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Guards pulled the sole woman on Saddam Hussein’s defense team from the court yesterday after she had a shouting match with the chief judge, prompting her to throw off her lawyer’s robe ...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein turned up at his genocide trial on Wednesday, despite writing earlier to the chief judge and telling him he would no longer attend court sessions in protest at being ...