Profiles: Defendants in Saddam's trial
Wednesday 19 October 2005, 11:24 Makka Time, 8:24 GMT
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Deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and seven other officials go on trial on
Wednesday charged with crimes against humanity.
Following are brief profiles of the defendants:
a.. Saddam Hussein
Aged 68. Strongman after the 1968 Baath Party coup, he formally took over the
presidency in 1979, ruling with absolute authority and often brutal force.
A US ally when he fought Iran for eight years during the 1980s, Saddam became
an enemy after invading Kuwait in 1990.
After US-led forces expelled Iraqi troops from Kuwait, Iraq was placed under
international sanctions.
After US and British forces invaded in March 2003, Saddam went on the run. He
was captured near Tikrit on 13 December 2003.
a.. Taha Yassin Ramadan
Born 1938. Vice-president until 2003, Ramadan met Saddam after joining the
Baath Party in the mid-1950s and rose to become a member of the president's
inner circle.
Taha Yassin Ramadan was
vice-president of Iraq
He held several senior positions, including industry minister in the 1970s.
He was once reported to have said: "I don't know anything about industry. All I
know is that anyone who doesn't work hard will be executed."
Iraqi exiles accused him and other officials of brutally stamping out a Shia
Muslim uprising in the south in 1991 and killing thousands of Kurds in the
north in 1988.
Number 20 on the US military's list of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis when they
invaded, Ramadan was captured in August 2003 in the northern city of Mosul by
Kurdish fighters.
a.. Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
One of Saddam's three younger half-brothers. Former head of the feared
Mukhabarat intelligence service and adviser to Saddam.
Al-Tikriti led the Mukhabarat
intelligence service
Number 38 on the most-wanted list, Barzan was captured in April 2003.
As head of the intelligence service, he was accused of ordering mass murders
and tortures and of taking part in human rights abuses, including the
destruction of villages.
US officials described Barzan as a member of what they called Saddam's "dirty
dozen".
a.. Awad Hamed al-Bander
Al-Bander was chief judge in
Saddam's Revolutionary Court
Former chief judge in Saddam's Revolutionary Court, which is accused of
organising show trials that often led to summary death sentences.
Al-Bander was the judge in charge of trying many of more than 140 Shia men
accused of trying to assassinate Saddam as his motorcade drove through the
village of Dujail in July 1982.
Some were killed in fighting.
Al-Bander sentenced many others to be executed.
a.. Abdullah Kadhem Ruaid
Local Baath Party official in the Dujail area.
a.. Ali Daeem Ali
Local Baath Party official in the Dujail area.
a.. Mohammed Azawi Ali
Local Baath Party official in the Dujail area.
a.. Mizher Abdullah Rawed
Local Baath Party official in the Dujail area.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9AB8CB59-6706-45F5-BF9E-C7DEEA84705B.htm
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