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.

Former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz was being questioned today over the fate of Saddam Hussein and the whereabouts of chemical and biological weapons.

THE formation of a new Iraqi government will start next week, the country’s US administrator said yesterday, after American forces netted four more senior members of Saddam Hussein’s old guard.