Saddam Hussein’s cousin known as “Chemical Ali” and 14 other defendants will face charges over the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Gulf War next week when Iraq’s third trial against former regime officials gets under way.

Saddam Hussein’s cousin known as “Chemical Ali” and two other former regime officials were today sentenced to hang for their roles in a 1980s scorched-earth campaign that led to the deaths of 180,000 Kurds.

Kurdish victims found in three mass graves included more than 230 women and children along with dozens of adult men, who were lined up and gunned down by troops and buried where they fell, an American forensic expert testified today in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein.

The chief judge threw Saddam Hussein out of court in Baghdad today after an argument during his Iraq trial on charges of genocide against the Kurds.

Saddam Hussein and one of his co-defendants were ejected from the courtroom in a tumultuous session in Baghdad today that saw the Iraqi defendants engage in a shouting match with the chief judge.

THE tribunal that will put Saddam Hussein on trial released a new video yesterday of the former dictator being questioned by magistrates about the killing of 50 Iraqis in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt in 1982.