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The former general known as "Chemical Ali," notorious for allegedly gassing
thousands of Kurds, looked haggard and leaned on a cane in a court Saturday as
Iraq (news - web sites)'s U.S.-backed government speeded the pace of legal
proceedings against Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s henchmen before next
month's critical elections.
The appearance of both Ali Hassan al-Majid and Saddam's last defense minister
Gen. Sultan Hashim Ahmad before a tribunal of judges were the first in a series
of interrogatory hearings that were made public, in preparation for eventual
full trials of Iraq's one-time leaders. The session was closed to the press.
Al-Majid appeared haggard in a video released after the interrogation. The
gray-haired first cousin of Saddam leaned on a walking stick before sitting in
front of a judge behind a desk.
Ahmad stared blankly at the ground as police officers stood on either side of
him holding his arms. Ahmad, a thickly set man with black mustache, later
smiled broadly to others in the hearing room.
A defense lawyer who attended the hearings said Ahmad spent four hours at the
tribunal, with the questions focused on charges regarding attacks on Kurds and
the Anfal campaign, a depopulation scheme that killed and expelled hundreds of
thousands of Kurds from northern Iraq during the 1980s. Ahmad is said to have
led the Iraqi Army's 1st Corps into the Anfal campaign.
"I have been a military officer for 40 years and have never been punished. It's
unfortunate that I have to sit like this before the court with the Americans
sitting behind me," Ahmad told the judge, according to the lawyer, who declined
to be identified.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan declined to say if American officials were
present.
Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Tuesday that detained Saddam
regime figures would start appearing before court in the coming week pressing
ahead with the trials ahead of crucial national elections set for Jan. 30.
The timing was apparently to remind voters of the brutality they endured before
the Americans ousted the dictatorship. The Iraqis will vote for a transitional
assembly that will write a permanent constitution.
Insurgents renewed attacks across northern Iraq, targeting election offices,
executing two civilians and wounding four American security contractors in a
roadside bomb attack. An Iraqi militant group also claimed responsibility in a
video posted on an Islamic Internet site for the Dec. 8 killing of two U.S.
contractors.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry condemned insurgents who on Friday ambushed a
Turkish diplomatic convoy and killed five Turkish security guards attached to
Ankara's embassy in Baghdad and two of their Iraqi drivers in Mosul, 225 miles
northwest of Baghdad.
Three other Turks escaped the ambush to safety, including the embassy's defense
attache who was wounded and taken to a U.S. military hospital, according to a
Foreign Ministry statement issued Saturday. The statement said U.S. forces
reportedly killed at least one militant.
In Mosul, insurgents detonated a roadside bomb near a U.S. military patrol,
injuring no soldiers but hitting a school bus. One eighth grade student was
killed and six were wounded, the military said in a statement.
Iraq's insurgency appears to be consolidating in the country's north following
intensive U.S.-led military operations in central and western Iraq aimed at
uprooting militants, comprising mainly Islamic extremists and Saddam loyalists.
The latest violence coincided with the commencement of judicial proceedings of
al-Majid and Ahmad for their alleged roles in an array of crimes committed
during Saddam's 1968-2003 reign.
The videos were the first images of the men since their arraignment in July
along with Saddam and the other detainees. Both wore gray-colored suits and
white shirts without ties and arrived at the tribunal handcuffed and flanked by
blue uniformed police.
They are the first known to have gone before an investigative hearing from
among the 12 jailed top figures who, including Saddam, are facing trial for
crimes during the regime's three decades in power.
Both were questioned by a panel of investigative judges in a hearing attended
by their lawyers, said Raad al-Juhyi, the head of the panel.
The role of the judges during these hearings is to interrogate the detainees
and gather evidence for possible charges to be laid against them, including
Saddam, followed by eventual criminal trials.
Al-Juhyi said the defendants will face questioning over Saddam's Anfal
campaign, a depopulation scheme that killed and expelled hundreds of thousands
of Kurds from northern Iraq during the 1980s. The offensive includes the 1988
Halabja chemical weapons attacks that al-Majid has been accused of ordering.
The judges will also investigate the role of the detainees in the bloody
quelling of a 1991 Shiite uprising following the U.S.-led Gulf War (news - web
sites) to force occupying Iraqi forces out of neighboring Kuwait, plus the
illegal imprisonment and executions of political opponents.
Al-Juhyi stressed the proceedings were only initial hearings to gather
information, not trials, adding there would be no rush to bring to trial Saddam
and his aides.
"Hastiness is the plague of trials," he said.
An official familiar with the procedure said the hearings are expected to
continue Monday and involve a third detainee, whose identity was not revealed.
Iraqi deputy prime minister, Barham Saleh, told Al-Arabiya TV that Ahmad was
being quizzed primarily to assist in tribunal proceedings against al-Majid.
"The former defense minister is being interrogated within the framework of
focusing on the case of Ali Hassan al-Majid, who is accused of many crimes
against the Iraqi people," Saleh said, adding that any future criminal trial
would be public.
Many Iraqis particularly among the Shiite majority have been eager to see the
prosecution of the ousted regime begin.
Militants fired mortar rounds Saturday at a voter registration center in
Dujail, north of the capital, killing one civilian and wounding eight others.
Gunmen killed two men, apparently Iraqis, in execution-style slayings in the
northern town of Beiji, police Capt. Hakim Ali said Saturday. One victim was
found with his hands tied behind his back.
Also near Beiji, a roadside bomb exploded, wounding four American contractors
employed by Florida-based Cochise Security Inc. to dispose of munitions in the
area.
An Iraqi militant group calling itself the "Jihad Brigades" claimed
responsibility for killing American contractors Joseph Wemple, a builder from
Orlando, Florida, and Dale Stoffel, vice president for international
development for Pennsylvania-based engineering-construction contractor CLI USA,
between Baghdad and the town of Taji, 12 miles to the north. The claim could
not be verified
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