(1 Mar 2006)
1. Wide of defendants seated in court
2. Chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman speaking
3. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein seated quietly
4. Defendants
5. Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi speaking in court
6. Close-up of document
7. Prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi talking, showing documents
8. Close-up of document from intelligence service stating that some detainees had died while they were in detention
9. Defendants
10. Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's half brother, talking
11. Wide of session
12. Awad al-Bandar, former chief judge in Saddam's Revolutionary Court, talking
13. Prosecutor places documents on bench, starts talking
14. Wide of defendants, with defendant Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid - allegedly local Baath party official from Dujail area - talking
15. Defendant Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid talking
16. UPSOUND: (Arabic) Ali Dayih, defendant who allegedly wrote one of the letters:
"May my hand be cut off if I gave information against anyone."
17. UPSOUND: (Arabic) Mizhar Ruwayyid, defendant:
"The handwriting is not mine. The signature is not mine."
18. Saddam listening
19. UPSOUND: (Arabic) Mizhar Ruwayyid, defendant:
"I only finished elementary school and the document presented was written by someone with a bachelor's degree."
20. UPSOUND (Arabic): Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi leader:
"To say that those people were sentenced to death because Abdullah wrote or it was said that he wrote it, this is rubbish."
21. UPSOUND (Arabic): Raouf Abdel-Rahman, chief judge:
"The court will look into this."
22. Prosecutor pointing at large aerial photographs of Dujail area
23. Aerial photographs taken on 25 April 1982 and 31 July 1983 showing destruction of farmland, orchards and houses in Dujail area.
24. Judge Abdel-Rahman speaking, after session resumes from recess.
25. Wide of defendants with former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan speaking on back row
26. Ramadan speaking
27. Prosecutors seated at bench
28. Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam's half brother, speaking
29. Wide of defendants with Barzan speaking
30. UPSOUND (Arabic): Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi leader:
(PART OVERLAID WITH WIDE SHOT OF SADDAM ADDRESSING COURT)
"Where is the crime? Why am I saying it was me? Because I am the one who signed the decree. The incident happened against me. If I did not want to sign it , no one could have forced me to sign it."
31. Taha Yassin Ramadan taking notes
32. UPSOUND (Arabic): Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi leader:
"Is referring those who opened fire at a head of state, no matter what his name is, a crime, then, the head of the state is here. Why are you trying the others? They are not heads of states"
33. Judge Abdel-Rahman
34. UPSOUND (Arabic): Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi leader:
"If there is a law issued by Revolutionary Command Council that calls for confiscating land, then try the chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council. He is present, in your hands."
35. UPSOUND (Arabic): Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi leader:
(STARTS CLOSER THAN PREVIOUS SHOT)
"During this period of hiding, my car was hit by a Doshka (Russian-made heavy machine gun) less than fifty metres away from me. It got very close to my right side and did not penetrate the last barrier of my car."
36. Wide shot of Saddam addressing court
37. Judge Abdel-Rahman adjourning session
STORYLINE:
A defiant Saddam Hussein admitted in court Wednesday that he ordered the trial of 148 Shiites who were eventually executed in the 1980s, but insisted that doing so was legal because they were suspected in an assassination attempt against him.
Saddam stood to defend the men.
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