Iraq releases Saddam interrogation tape

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — The Iraqi Special Tribunal charged with trying Saddam Hussein released a videotape showing the ousted leader being interrogated over alleged crimes against humanity.

"I have given the approval to release the tape," Judge Raed al-Juhi, a member of the panel, said without elaborating

CNN television showed brief footage of Juhi questioning a bearded Saddam who was wearing a tieless white shirt and a black vest.

It said the judge was interrogating Saddam about the 1982 killing of 143 residents of Dujail, a Shiite village northeast of Baghdad. He is accused of ordering revenge murders after villagers allegedly tried to assassinate him.

Other footage broadcast on Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television shows an unidentified man in a blue suit...