Associated Press
November 28, 2005
Names and places that figure in Saddam Hussein's trial.
DEFENDANTS:
- Saddam Hussein, Iraq's deposed president.
- Barazan Ibrahim: Saddam's half brother, Iraq's intelligence chief at time of killings in the town of Dujail, Iraq.
- Taha Yassin Ramadan: Iraqi vice president 1991-2003.
- Awad Hamed al-Bandar: Head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, which issued death sentences against 143 Dujail residents.
- Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid: Baath Party official in Dujail region, believed responsible for Dujail arrests.
- Ali Dayim Ali: Baath official in Dujail region.
- Mohammed Azawi Ali: Baath official in Dujail region.
- Mizhar Abdullah Ruwayyid: Baath official in Dujail and son of fellow defendant Abdullah Kazim Ruwayyid.
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KEY MEMBERS OF THE DEFENSE TEAM:
- Khalil al-Dulaimi: Saddam's chief lawyer. An Iraqi hired by Saddam's oldest daughter, Raghad Saddam Hussein.
- Abdel Haq Alani: Iraqi-born lawyer based in Britain.
- Khamees Hameed Al-Ubaidi: a lawyer and assistant to al-Dulaimi.
- Ramsey Clark: a former U.S. attorney general.
- Mahathir Mohamad: a former prime minister of Malaysia.
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OTHERS:
- Odai Saddam Hussein: Saddam's elder son, killed with his brother in July 2003.
- Qusai Saddam Hussein: Saddam's younger son, killed July 2003.
- Raghad Saddam Hussein: Saddam's eldest daughter.
- Rana Saddam Hussein: middle daughter.
- Hala Saddam Hussein: youngest daughter.
- Gen. Abdel-Karim Kassem: the Iraqi president Saddam tried to assassinate in 1959. Overthrown by the Baath Party in 1963.
- Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr: Saddam's distant cousin. Became Iraq's president in 1968 and was ousted by Saddam in 1979.
- Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Sadr, a founder of the Shiite Muslim Dawa Party. Dawa gunmen who attacked Saddam in Dujail in 1982 were seeking revenge for al-Sadr's execution.
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PLACE NAMES: - Dujail, small farming town 50 miles north of Baghdad and the focus of the trial.
- Halabja, Kurdish town in northeast Iraq where Saddam's troops used chemical weapons to kill an estimated 5,000 people in 1968.
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