Saddam defense accuses witness of perjury
Saddam Hussein’s defense team on Wednesday accused a prosecution witness of perjury and demanded the court be halted to allow an investigation into the testimonies of all those the prosecution has brought to the stand during the 7-month-old trial. The accusation came after the defense played a DVD, which it claimed showed that prosecution witness Ali al-Haidari contradicted the testimony he gave in December about a crackdown against Shiites launched by Saddam’s regime following an attack on the then-Iraqi leader in 1982 in Dujail. Full Story