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Saddam has punctuated the proceedings with outbursts and announced last week that he and his co-defendants were going on hunger strike to protest against the judge, Raouf Abdel-Rahman, who took over the case last month.

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“I reject being a witness in this case because I do not have information,” al-Azzawi said. “I was forced to come to court.”
Three other former Saddam loyalists who were compelled to give evidence last week failed to corroborate most of the prosecution claims.

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On Tuesday the prosecution produced documents that purported to show the former dictator had ordered the killings, and called two witnesses. Both complained that they had been made to testify and could not provide useful testimony. One, Fadhil al-Azzawi, a former ambassador in Moscow, said he had not even been in Iraq at the time.

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However, the case has not proceeded as smoothly as prosecutors hoped. Although 26 witnesses have given heart-wrenching accounts of torture and imprisonment during the crackdown, proving that Saddam was directly responsible has been difficult.

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According to government officials, retaliation against the villagers was led by Barzan al-Tikriti, a half-brother of Saddam who was head of intelligence, and by Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former vice-president. They are also on trial.

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The 140 allegedly killed were accused of taking part in a botched attempt to assassinate Saddam when he visited their village 40 miles north of Baghdad in 1982. Many more were tortured.

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