(11 Sep 2006)
POOL
Baghdad, 11 September, 2006
1. Wide shot of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and his co-defendants in dock
2. Chief Judge
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Kurdish female witness:
"At 7 p.m. Iraqi jet fighters launched air strike on us."
(Chief Judge: "How many?")
"I saw four jet fighters."
POOL
Baghdad, 11 September, 2006
4. UPSOUND: (Arabic) Chief Judge talking to defence lawyer:
Chief Judge: "The question is from the lawyer of, who is your client?"
Lawyer: "My client is the president, Saddam Hussein."
5. Wide shot of defendants
6. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein's lawyer:
"I will continue saying 'the president Saddam Hussein' and this my personal belief as I'm a lawyer in his defence team and I will not say anything else."
POOL
Baghdad, 11 September, 2006
++COURT DIALOGUE CONTINUES++
7. UPSOUND: (Arabic) Chief Judge speaking to Saddam:
Judge: "I cannot allow to anybody to speak illegally."
Saddam: "What is the law? And you are a judge."
POOL
Baghdad, 11 September, 2006
++COURT DIALOGUE CONTINUES++
UPSOUND: (Arabic) Chief Judge speaking to Saddam:
Judge: "I'm speaking to the defence lawyer"
Saddam: "What is the law that prevents you from letting them to say 'the president Saddam Hussein'? There is no one made you a favour, why do you contradict with law?"
Judge: "We are following the law and under the justice system we must use specific words in law, so in any case (even) if he is defending a minister or a Prime Minister he has the right to say either my client or the defendant."
Saddam: "You know and you are a judge, your knowledge is much better than mine about the law, so you know that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty. My adjective as 'Saddam the President of Iraq' was not taken away by the will of the people but by the Americans, the enemy of the (Iraqi) people, the occupiers."
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Duhok north of Baghdad - 10 September, 2006
8. Wide of village, mountains in distance
9. Various of building used as jail during Saddam's era
10. Wide of jail entrance, pan left to jail building
11. Wide of village with mountains in background
12. Wide of Kurdish residents in street
13. Residents sitting in cafe
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Younis, Vox Pop:
"He (Saddam) committed the crime 'of killing Kurds'. It is one of the big crimes. It is a crime of genocide. He killed hundreds of thousands of Kurds."
15. Mosque with mountain in background
STORYLINE:
The second trial of Saddam Hussein, on charges of genocide in connection with an alleged crackdown on Kurds, resumed Monday after a 19-day hiatus with the former Iraqi leader in the courtroom.
Saddam and six co-defendants face a possible death penalty for the alleged killings of tens of thousands of Kurds during the Anfal campaign, a massive military assault in northern Iraq in the 1980s.
The Anfal trial, which began in August, is likely to take months.
The alleged campaign was on a far greater scale than the Dujail crackdown against Shiites in the wake of an assassination attempt of the then Iraqi leader.
The prosecution alleges that about 180,000 people were killed during the campaign.
In Monday's hearing, a 56-year-old Kurdish woman told of seeing people sickened and dying during an alleged chemical attack carried out by Saddam Hussein's forces.
During the morning session, Katreen Elias Mikhail, a Kurdish Christian and former militia fighter, said four Iraqi planes unleashed a wave of bombs on the evening of June 5, 1987 on the town of Qalizewa, sending people fleeing for shelter.
One man claimed Saddam "killed hundreds of thousands of Kurds.''
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