Saddam genocide trial shown documentary evidence

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's trial of Saddam Hussein for genocide has resumed with the prosecution submitting documentary evidence it said linked defendants to the use of chemical weapons against the Kurds in 1988. Prosecutors produced what they said was a memo from Saddam's office to Iraqi military intelligence ordering a strike with "special ammunition and possibly implemented by means of the air force, air aviation and artillery." "The president ordered that your directorate be merged with the experts' directorate to carry out a pre-emptive strike against the bases of Khomeini guards," the memo read Monday.

The term "Khomeini guards" refers to the Saddam regime's belief that Kurdish separatist guerrillas were in league with the former Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini...