Saddam trial to resume as world mourns September 11 attacks

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Six more Iraqi Kurds are to testify against Saddam Hussein on Monday -- the day the United States mourns victims of 9/11 attacks -- when his genocide trial resumes after a three-week break. The sight of Saddam back in the dock on the fifth anniversary of the attacks will fuel the debate in America over the motivations of the US-led invasion, which overthrew the former Iraqi leader and led to his arrest.

This row was revived on Friday when a US Senate report concluded that Saddam had no links with al-Qaeda prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks, as had been repeatedly implied by President George W. Bush's administration. For now, however, the former strongman is on trial for his alleged role in ordering the 1987-1988 Anfal campaign against Iraq's Kurdish...