(10 Oct 2006)
1. Wide of defendants in dock
2. Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa
3. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish, translated through Arabic interpreter) Kurdish witness reciting testimony behind curtain:
"One afternoon, a group of people wearing blue suits, protective masks, gloves and boots sprayed us with material that later caused the spread of lice."
4. Mid shot of Saddam Hussein
4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa:
"I said yesterday (Monday) that I'm ready to meet your demands if they are legal or humanitarian ones."
(Interrupted by Saddam Hussein with unclear words, asking for "notebook")
"Defendant is not allowed to speak directly in the courtroom, he is being allowed only through me and after taking permission."
(Saddam Hussein: "He cannot even ask for a notebook?")
"He (the defendant) can ask for that through me and I'm ready to meet his demands. Fetch him a notebook and pen."
5. Wide of defendants in dock
STORYLINE:
Saddam Hussein's genocide trial resumed on Tuesday, with the testimony of a Kurdish woman from behind a screen.
The unnamed witness, whose words were translated into Arabic for the court, said "one afternoon, a group of people wearing blue suits, protective masks, gloves and boots sprayed us with material that later caused the spread of lice."
Saddam and six others are charged with acts of genocide against Iraq's Kurdish population during a crackdown in the late 1980s, in which an estimated 180-thousand people were killed.
During Monday's testimony it was alleged his troops buried prisoners alive and abused women prisoners by firing over their heads as they bathed and
shackling them for hours in the sun.
The defendants were present in court and represented by court-appointed lawyers.
The lawyers chosen by the ex-president and his co-defendants are currently boycotting the trial in protest against the dismissal of the first chief judge, who was seen as lenient on the former Iraqi dictator, and the court's refusal to allow the defence time to examine thousands of documents.
On Tuesday, Saddam interrupted Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa to ask for a notebook.
The Chief Judge reminded the former president "(A) Defendant is not allowed to speak directly in the courtroom, he is being allowed only through me and after taking permission."
If convicted, the defendants could be sentenced to death by hanging.
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