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BAGHDAD, DEC. 18. Iraqi judges on Saturday started interrogating Saddam Hussein's former Defence Minister and the notorious general known as Chemical Ali, who is accused of gassing thousands of Kurds in the 1980s, the head judge in charge of investigating detained former regime leaders said. Raad al-Juhyi, head of a panel of investigative judges, told journalists that questioning of Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad, Saddam's last Defence chief, and Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Chemical Ali, had begun, but he did not specify when. ``Ali Hassan al-Majid and Sultan Hashim have been interrogated and their lawyers attended the investigative hearing,'' Judge al-Juhyi said. Interim Iraqi Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, said on Tuesday that detained leaders of Mr. Hussein's toppled regime would start appearing before court next week. Officials close to the Special Tribunal that has been established to try Mr. Hussein and the leaders on a range of charges linked to the former leader's three decade rule have said Mr. Hussein and 11 of his top leaders would face initial investigative hearings. ``This (the Saturday hearings) is what the doctor (Allawi) announced,'' said Thair al-Naqeeb, spokesman for the interim Prime Minister. He added that the hearing was closed to the media. The tribunal has said the investigative hearings are the first step of the trial process for Mr. Hussein and his defendants and will be run by investigative judges. ``We should make a distinction between the trial and the investigation,'' Judge al-Juhyi said. The former general is accused of ordering the 1988 Halabja chemical weapons attacks that killed thousands of Kurds, the 1990 invasion of Kuwait and suppressing a 1991 Shia uprising. — AP
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