Saddam trial witness shows court chemical burns

A Kurdish security officer testifying in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial in Baghdad, Iraq, today showed the court body burns he allegedly received when armies of the deposed leader attacked his northern Iraqi village in 1988.

“A squadron of planes hovered in the sky. They began bombing the area and the bombs were two types – some had loud explosions, while some were somewhat silent,” said Maj Iskandar Mahmoud Abdul-Rahman, 41, as he recounted the attack on the leadership of his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan on March 20, 1988.