First trial against Saddam Hussein finally gets under way
19th Oct 2005, 16:53 GMT
SADDAM Hussein and seven senior members of his toppled regime are due to go on trial today to face charges that they ordered the 1982 killings of nearly 150 people in the town of Dujail.
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