Secret-identity Saddam witness says she was tortured

A woman testified today from behind a screen, her voice disguised but her weeping still apparent, that she was assaulted and tortured with beatings and electric shocks by Saddam Hussein’s agents.

In the trial of the former president and seven lieutenants, Saddam sat stone-faced, taking notes on a pad of paper, as the woman, known only as Witness A, told the court how she and dozens of other families from the town of Dujail were arrested in a crackdown after a 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam.