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"Saddam Hussein verdict hearing begins"
POSTED: 3:33 a.m. EST, November 5, 2006

From Jomana Karadsheh
CNN
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's High Tribunal has begun its session on Sunday where it will announce verdicts and sentences for Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants in the Dujail case.

One by one the eight defendants, including Hussein, were to file into the courtroom to receive their sentences from a five-judge panel.

Mohammed Azzawi Ali, a former Dujail Baath Party official, was the first defendant in the courtroom. Defense attorney Ramsey Clark was also in court.

Hussein could be sentenced to death by hanging for his role in a brutal crackdown nearly 25 years ago in Dujail -- the once obscure Iraqi town that is now a symbol of his regime's cruelty.

The tribunal meeting in Baghdad to render verdicts for the co-defendants for their roles in a widescale, systematic attack on the Shiite town after someone tried to assassinate Hussein during a visit on July 8, 1982.

The prosecution is seeking the death penalty for the former dictator and two other defendants -- Barzan Hassan, Hussein's half-brother and former head of the intelligence agency, and Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former member of Hussein's Revolutionary Command Council. (Watch scenes from Dujail crackdown, Baghdad preparations -- 3:20 )"