Kurd tells Saddam genocide trial of killings

A Kurd who lives in the United States today testified how, as a 12-year-old boy, he survived a firing squad in which Saddam Hussein's soldiers shot dead his mother and three sisters.

"There was a trench. We were lined up. A soldier shot directly at us. I was hit on my shoulder," Taimor Abdallah Rokhzai, a 30-year-old Iraqi, told the trial of Saddam Hussein and six former members of his regime, which resumed today after a 19-day break.