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Saddam expelled from dock as Kurds tell of death camps


Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 10:33 AFP — Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein clashed with his judge and was expelled from court Tuesday after a Kurdish woman told of the horrors she had seen in the former regime's brutal death camps.

Kurd tells Saddam trial of death camp atrocities


Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 , 09:02 AFP — Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein sat impassive in the dock Tuesday as a Kurdish villager told the genocide trial about the horrors of life and death in the former regime's brutal death camps.

Dutch warcrimes convict wants Saddam Hussein as appeals witness


Monday, 9 October, 2006 , 17:22 AFP — A Dutch businessman, convicted for having supplied chemicals used in gas attacks on Kurdish villages in Iraq in the 1980s, requested on Monday that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein be called as a witness at his appeal.

Kurds accuse Saddam of slaughtering families


Monday, 9 October, 2006 , 13:40 AFP — Kurdish witnesses accused Saddam Hussein on Monday of cramming their starving families into disease-ridden death camps and casting the bodies of the fallen into mass graves.

Iraqi 'devil-worshippers' cancel annual pilgrimage due to unrest


Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 14:07 AFP — Iraq's Yazidis, a minority religious sect who have been branded devil worshippers by suspicious neighbours, cancelled an annual pilgrimage Saturday over fears for devotees' safety.

Slain Kurdish MP buried in northern Iraq


Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 11:13 AFP — Assassinated Kurdish lawmaker Mohammed Redha Mahmud was laid to rest on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, mourned as a victim of the country's "blind sectarian war".

150 Kurdish immigrants disembark in southern Italy


Saturday, 7 October, 2006 , 06:48 AFP — Around 150 clandestine Kurdish immigrants landed overnight in Calabria, southern Italy, sea rescue services said Saturday.

Rice urges Kurds to work for peaceful, unified Iraq


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 18:22 AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met the leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Friday, urging them to cooperate with Iraqi Arabs in building a peaceful and unified country.

Two Turkish soldiers wounded in first clash since ceasefire


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 13:26 AFP — Two soldiers were wounded in eastern Turkey in the first clash with Kurdish rebels since the unilaterial declaration of a ceasefire five days earlier by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, security sources said Friday.

Rice leaves Iraq after delay due to aircraft fault


Friday, 6 October, 2006 , 11:41 AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left Iraq on Friday after a delay of more than two hours due to aircraft technical problems, her spokesman said.