Saddam to face second trial

Saddam Hussein will face a second trial, for genocide against Iraq's Kurds in the 1980s, starting on August 21, prosecutors said yesterday. Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi said Saddam's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as Chemical Ali for his gas attacks on the Kurds, would also be tried for genocide.

In total there would be seven people on trial in connection with the Anfal campaign in northern Iraq in the late 1980s in which Saddam is accused of killing tens of thousands of Kurds.

"When Saddam and those accused with him are executed we will feel great relief," said Kurd Ibrahim Wadi, 31, who was detained along with his family during the campaign.