Tribunal to probe Saddam crimes

IRAQ’S US-installed interim government established a special tribunal yesterday to deal with crimes against humanity committed by Saddam

Hussein's regime. Outside the capital, Iraqi guerrillas pressed their attacks against US forces, killing two soldiers and hitting a heavy transport plane landing at Baghdad airport.

Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, the current president of the Iraqi Governing Council, said the new court will cover crimes committed from July 14, 1968 the day Saddam's Ba'ath Party came to power until May 1, 2003 the day US President George W Bush declared major hostilities over.