(22 Dec 2005) **TRUE DATE CREATED = 21/12/2005**
1. Wide shot of eight defendants, including Saddam Hussein (bottom right of screen)
2. Saddam Hussein stands up as witness is sworn in
3. Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin swearing in witness AUDIO of witness repeating sentences
4. Grey curtain behind which second witness is testifying to avoid being identified
5. Prosecutors
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Najib al-Nueimi, ex-Qatari Justice Minister and defence lawyer
"Firstly, about security. We cannot continue with this trial in the coming sessions, as we have stated in the previous sessions, due to lack of security."
7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin, interrupting:
"We have replied to you."
8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Najib al-Nueimi, ex-Qatari Justice Minister and defence lawyer, replying
"We want to state this fact. Secondly there is a lack of good treatment towards us. The issue has moved from threatening the local (Iraqi) lawyers to issuing international and religious decrees towards us personally."
9. UPSOUND: (Arabic) Prosecution witness - reading verse of the Quran:
"The truth has come and oppression has been defeated."
(Saddam in the background nodding in agreement and reading the same verse with the witness:)
"The truth has come and oppression has been defeated."
10. UPSOUND: (Arabic) Judge talking to the defendant:
"Talk to the court."
11. UPSOUND: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President:
"He should be saying the Iraqi president." (referring to the prosecution's first witness remark 'in 1982, when Saddam entered Dujail ... ')
12. Saddam Hussein praying in background as first witness in foreground addresses court
13 . SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President:
(partly overlaid by judge and prosecutor)
"If the public prosecution takes note of the witnesses discrepancies, with the same enthusiasm it does with the accused, then it should be balanced in this matter."
14. Saddam Hussein, witness and prosecutors
15. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Barazan Ibrahim, Defendant and Saddam's half brother:
(partly overlaid by wall in court building with Justice scales)
"There are people in prison who cannot walk because of burns. All of my hand was burnt and they burnt my pyjama shirt on me during the torture. Here are the marks of the handcuff, come and see them, (they are visible) even now. The bad treatment is continuing daily. Every day there is oppression, violence and psychological and physical torture."
16. Saddam Hussein
17. Tilt form hands of defendant as he's taking notes to defendant listening
18. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi President
"He asked whether I have been beaten."
(Judge interrupts: "If you have something write it down and present it to the court").
"No, please I am not a child in your school. Don't let me talk in a way which I do not like to use with you or with any one. He interrupted me and continued talking. You did not stop him. But he asked a question and the answer is yes. I was beaten everywhere in my body. The marks are still there even today. For this, I am not complaining against the Americans..(mute).".
(++POOL FEED GOES MUTE++)
19. Wall in court building with Justice scales
STORYLINE:
After several hours of quietly listening to testimony, Saddam Hussein launched into an extended outburst at his trial Wednesday, alleging that he had been beaten "everywhere on my body" by his American captors while in detention.
"Yes I have been beaten, everywhere on my body. The marks are still there even today," Saddam told the court.
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