Events of the session of Saddam's trial
Iraq, Politics, 11/29/2005

During the session, a DVD was displayed showing Saddam Hussein standing before four men who were arrested by his personal guards in al-Dajil village.
Saddam is being tried for Dajil village killings, in which he allegedly took revenge on the town after there was an assassination attempt on his life when he was visiting the village.

In this DVD which was played several times, one of the four men appeared appealing for Saddam to pardon. This film raised the anger of Saddam who stood repeating words that were not understood, and the chairman of the court reacted saying "we will give you enough time." After that the chairman of the court read the testimony of the chief witness in the case Waddah Khalil al-Sheikh (54 year old) who died recently because of cancer. Al-Sheikh who was an investigation officer in the Iraqi intelligence department which was presided then by Barazan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, the brother for Saddam Hussein, said that "those who opened fire at Saddam's procession are not more than 13 persons." He explained this result was reached from the traces left by the weapons stores found at the place of the incident." He added that the Iraqi security forces after the incident detained some 400 persons from al-Dajil including members of al-Khazraj Sunni tribe with complete families including women, children and the elderly in the premises of the Baath party and the security forces in al-Dakhil.

He continued that those detainees were taken then to the intelligence department in Baghdad in 50- passengers capacity busses for the intelligence without investigations to al-Muthanna governorate to the south of Iraq. He added "I do not know what had happened to them after that." Al-Sheikh indicated that Taha Yassin Ramadan was presiding over the committee which leveled the lands and fields in the two cities of al-Dajil and Balad after the incident.

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