Saddam's team accuses witness of perjury
The chief judge threw out one of the top defendants in the Saddam Hussein trial amid fierce arguments today as the prosecution and defence accused each other’s witnesses of lying.
Court guards hustled former intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim out of the courtroom after he rebuked chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman for warning a defence witness that he could be prosecuted if he were not telling the truth on the stand.