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Saddam trial resumes

BAGHDAD: The trial of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants on genocide charges against Iraq's Kurdish minority in 1980s resumed in Baghdad on Monday.

Chief prosecution Munqith al-Faroun begun the session with presenting documents from the Iraqi army and intelligence recommending the use of chemical weapons during the Operation Anfal as more effective approach to destroy the Kurdish guerillas.

Mr. Hussein and six of his aides are facing charges of genocide against Kurds in the trial of Operation Anfal, in which prosecutors said that up to 180,000 Kurds were killed. If convicted, Mr. Hussein could get his second death penalty. On November 5, a panel of five Iraqi judges sentenced Mr. Husseinto death for the killing of 148 persons in Dujail, 60 km north of Baghdad. — Xinhua

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