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	Dujail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dujail (33°51′N 44°14′E, Arabic الدجيل) is a small Shiite town in northern Iraq.
		Dujail was the site of an unsuccessful assassination attempt against then Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, on July 8, 1982.
		A resident of Dujail recalled the incident at Hussein's trial in December 2005, stating that he had witnessed Baathist torture and murder in the government reprisal, including the murders of 7 of his 10 brothers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dujail (508 words)

	The Widows of Dujail by John Moore- The Digital Journalist
		DUJAIL, IRAQ - OCT. 20: Marateb Abed Ali poses for a photograph on Oct. 20, 2005 in Dujail, Iraq.
		DUJAIL, IRAQ - OCT. 20: Anud Abdel Wahab Jafar holds a tattered image of her slain father, Abed Al Waha Jafar, on Oct. 20, 2005 in Dujail, Iraq.
		DUJAIL, IRAQ - OCT. 20: Dujail widow Ayot Hussain Mostafa holds the only photo that Saddam Hussein's forces did not confiscate of her slain husband, Oct. 20, 2005, in Dujail, Iraq.
	digitaljournalist.org /issue0512/dis_moore.html (1516 words)

	CNN.com - Saddam video shows calm before storm - Oct 18, 2005
		Saddam and seven other of his regime's officials, whose trial by special tribunal is scheduled to begin Wednesday, are charged with scores of reprisal killings and tortures in the Tigris River town after the incident on July 8, 1982.
		Dujail was placed under siege, its agriculture devastated and its homes destroyed.
		Despite the presence of a Shiite enclave in Dujail, the city is in Salaheddin province, heavily populated by Sunni Arabs and down the Tigris River from Samarra and Tikrit -- Saddam's hometown.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/10/18/saddam.footage/index.html (820 words)

	USATODAY.com - Judge allows defense to call Saddam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saddam and the upper-level defendants like Ibrahim have insisted the sweep of arrests — in which some detainees, including women and children, died in prison and 148 Shiites were sentenced to death — was a justified response to a 1982 assassination attempt on Saddam in the town.
		But for three low-level Baath Party officials from Dujail — Mohammed Azawi Ali, Abdullah Kazim al-Ruwayyid and his son Mizhar — the defense has tried to show they were not involved at all, bringing a string of alibi witnesses, including relatives, to the stand the past three days.
		"Dujail's residents are known for their hot blood," Saddam said of Ali, drawing a smile from chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2006-05-17-saddam-trial_x.htm?csp=34 (964 words)

	kutv.com - Saddam Allowed To Attend New Trial Session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Dujail's residents are known for their hot blood," the former Iraqi leader said after Ali's outburst, drawing a smile from chief judge Raouf Abdel-Rahman.
		Saddam and the seven former members of his regime have been charged with crimes against humanity for the crackdown, in which hundreds of Dujail residents were imprisoned, some were tortured and 148 were killed.
		One of the witnesses, a Dujail resident, said he saw Abdullah al-Ruwayyid leaving Dujail the day after the assassination attempt to return to his unit of the People's Army, a Baath Party militia, in the northern city of Mosul.
	kutv.com /topstories/topstories_story_137074539.html (918 words)

	Saddam's defense team accuses witness of perjury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Al-Haidari testified in December that he was arrested at age 14 in the Dujail sweep and was tortured with electrical shocks and beatings.
		They are accused of arresting hundreds of Dujail families in the crackdown, torturing and killing women and children and killing 148 Shiites who were sentenced to death for the assassination attempt.
		The defense aired a second DVD on Wednesday aiming to support its contention that the razing of farmlands in Dujail that took place during the crackdown was not a retaliation against its residents for the attack on Saddam.
	www.abcactionnews.com /stories/2006/05/060531saddam.shtml (1043 words)

	Saddam's former intelligence chief thrown out of court after heated argument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They are accused of arresting hundreds of Dujail families, torturing and killing women and children and killing 148 Shiites who were sentenced to death.
		In testimony in December, al-Haidari said he was arrested at age 14 in the Dujail sweep and was tortured with electrical shocks and beatings.
		The defence presented a DVD that showed al-Haidari addressing a 2004 ceremony in Dujail and praising the attack on Saddam as an attempt by "sons of Dujail. . .
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/060531/w053172.html (774 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: WHAT IS DUJAIL TO THE LEFT?:
		DUJAIL, Iraq: The people of this grape-growing town 35 miles north of Baghdad live surrounded by reminders of the time they tangled with Saddam Hussein.
		When Hussein's long-awaited trial opens tomorrow, Iraqi prosecutors plan to charge him first with ordering the killing of more than 140 men from Dujail and exiling their families to a desert camp in 1982 after a band of gunmen tried to assassinate him on a visit to the town.
		Because the Dujail operations center was too small, the suspects were sent to a security office in Baghdad.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/2005/10/what_is_dujail.html (1095 words)

	Saddam says he ordered Dujail residents tried; court adjourned until March 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The former Iraqi leader also said his co-defendants should be freed, and he alone should be tried for the crackdown in southern Dujail after a 1982 assassination attempt on him.
		Saddam said the objective in Dujail was to prevent the extensive groves from being a hiding place for the opposition.
		In the first months of the trial, a series of Dujail residents testified that they were imprisoned and tortured and that their relatives were killed.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/060301/w030150.html (710 words)

	Grotian Moment Blog \| UK Channel 4 Special Report on the Dujail Incident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		What happened afterwards - executions, torture and imprisonment of the people of Dujail, the razing of their orchards and houses - is the subject of the first court case against Saddam, to be heard in Baghdad next month.
		Dujail is a majority Shia town; most people there opposed the war against Shia Iran.
		The new footage may help the prosecution, as it shows Saddam giving orders for interrogations, but it could be used by the defence if they wish to suggest that he was acting in response to a genuine threat on his life by a group plotting to overthrow his government.
	lawwww.case.edu /saddamtrial/entry.asp?entry_id=17 (1509 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Seeking justice in Dujail
		It concerns the killing of 143 people from Dujail, a mixed town of Sunni and Shia Arabs some 60km north of Baghdad, and a train of events that began one stifling hot day in 1982.
		At that time, many of Dujail's men were away fighting in the war with Iran, which the Iraqi leader had started just 18 months before.
		Nevertheless, Prof Scharf believes that the reason the prosecution chose Dujail as their first case is because it is their strongest.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4350104.stm (918 words)

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		In those days, Dujail served as the sanctuary of the Daawa party, a Shiite party that opposed to Saddam's Sunni-secular regime.
		In an article written on July 31 of that year, the magazine reported that an assassination attempt took place in Dujail and was thwarted by the army.
		The sad truth is that the court chose to focus on Dujail simply because the massacre of hundreds, compared to that of thousands, is easier to document.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3156389,00.html (901 words)

	FRONTLINE/WORLD . Iraq - Saddam's Road to Hell - A journey into the killing fields . PBS
		Back in Dujail, more than 250,000 acres of palm groves and orchards were bulldozed, destroying the city’s economic base for years to come.
		The Dujail case was selected as the first to be tried against Saddam because it is seen as relatively straightforward to prosecute.
		According to a 2003 Associated Press report, a presidential decree ordering the execution of Dujail men was discovered in a secret police office ransacked after the fall of Baghdad.
	www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/iraq501/events_dujail.html (412 words)

	CBS News \| Ex-Officials Deny Role in Shiite Deaths
		Saddam and seven former members of his regime are on trial for the deaths of 148 Shiites and the illegal imprisonment and torture of Dujail residents.
		But to convict the former Iraqi leader, they will likely have to convince the five-judge panel that Saddam was aware the crackdown went beyond the authors of the assassination attempt and aimed to punish a large civilian population.
		A string of Dujail residents have testified they were tortured in prison.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/03/12/ap/world/mainD8GA15S81.shtml (701 words)

	JURIST - Paper Chase: No verdict date set in Saddam Dujail case (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jaafar al-Mussawi, chief prosecutor in Hussein's Dujail trial [BBC timeline], expressed optimism that a verdict would be handed down at the November 5 date, though it could be delayed pending further investigation.
		Defense team leader Khalil Duleimi told the press Sunday that Hussein was prepared to forgive those who shot his two sons in 2003 [CNN report], and that Hussein himself ordered his defense team to boycott [JURIST report] the ongoing "Anfal" trial, which is scheduled to resume Tuesday.
		He is eligible for the death penalty [JURIST report] in the Dujail case, and a US official, speaking anonymously, indicated that the Anfal trial could continue posthumously [JURIST report] should Hussein be executed before proceedings in the second trial conclude.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /paperchase/2006/10/no-verdict-date-set-in-saddam-dujail.php (360 words)

	Saddam prosecutor on the defensive over Dujail video - Region - Middle East Times
		The defense showed a video of a man said to be Jaafar Al Mussawi in the Shia village of Dujail, where a 1982 assassination attempt on Saddam led to the arrest and execution of 148 people.
		However, Haidar was shown in the film at a rally in Dujail in 2004 celebrating the "heroes of Dujail" who tried to assassinate "one of the worst dictators ever".
		Previously Saddam's attorneys have sought to distance the defendants from the events of Dujail in or present them as a justifiable response to an assassination attempt on a head of state.
	www.metimes.com /articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060531-055216-2059r (762 words)

	Dujail - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dujail is a small Shia town in northern Iraq.
		Dujail is known for being the place where an unsuccessful assassination attempt was staged against then Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, on July 8, 1982.
		A resident of Dujail now in his thirties recalls "They blindfolded me. But I was so young, it kept falling." and at a Baghdad detention center he witnessed "a machine that looked like a grinder and had some blood and hair [on it and] I saw bodies of people from Dujail".
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=10641 (663 words)

	NPR : Dujail Killings Are Focal Point in Saddam Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dujail Killings Are Focal Point in Saddam Trial
		They are charged in the deaths of more than 140 residents of Dujail following a failed attempt on Saddam's life while he visited the town in 1982.
		The proceedings are the first in what could be more than a dozen trials for separate alleged atrocities.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4963136 (187 words)

	Grotian Moment Blog \| Issue #41: Did the Dujail Trial Meet International Standards of Due Process? (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although a grievous act, the Dujail massacre remains a very small part of Hussein's atrocities, which involved the deaths of at least 300,000 Iraqis (exclusive of those who perished in wars conducted against Iran and Kuwait).
		Notwithstanding that the Dujail proceedings permits the opportunity to judge the Revolutionary Court as a whole for applying the law in the service of oppression, their overall performativity is of relatively modest value.
		Regarding the fate of the Dujail conspirators: it is known that the ringleaders fled to Iran and returned to Iraq after the US invasion in 2003.
	www.law.case.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /saddamtrial/entry.asp?entry_id=142 (6506 words)

	SouthCoastToday.com - Experts authenticate Saddam's signature on more key Dujail documents - April 19, 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saddam and the former officials from his regime are on trial for the deaths of the 148 Shiites and the imprisonment of hundreds of others in a crackdown following an assassination attempt against Saddam in the mainly Shiite town of Dujail in 1982.
		The former Iraqi president has refused to confirm or deny the signatures are his — and Ibrahim and some other defendants called the documents forgeries.
		The 1982 document ordered that farmlands taken from Dujail families in retaliation for the assassination attempt be handed over to the Agriculture Ministry.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/04-06/04-20-06/10world-nation.htm (746 words)

	FOXNews.com - Judge Lets Defense Call Saddam as Witness - International News \| News of the World \| Middle East News \| ...
		But Ramadan stood in court in complained that he had no other witnesses to call to back his contention that he was not in the town of Dujail when Saddam's security forces launched a crackdown there in 1982, as the prosecution has alleged.
		The prosecution alleges that Saddam ordered Ramadan to bring his forces from the People's Army — a Baath Party militias — to Dujail to participate in arrests of Dujail residents and oversee the razing of farmlands after a July 8, 1982 assassination attempt against Saddam in the town.
		Saddam and his seven co-defendants face possible execution by hanging if convicted for alleged crimes against humanity in Dujail — including killing women and children, torturing detainees and arresting some 399 people in the sweep through the town.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,195792,00.html (1240 words)

	TIME.com: Saddam's Revenge -- Oct. 9, 2006 -- Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The killings in Dujail speak to a larger battle being waged in the Iraqi psyche.
		True, the executions by Saddam's regime in Dujail showed that those boundaries were a mirage: they could close in on you in less time than it takes a bullet to fly from the barrel of a gun.
		It is indicative of the scale of Saddam's brutality that there are some in Dujail who believe the current bloodshed is preferable to what preceded it.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1541280-2,00.html (664 words)

	Saddam Hussein to hear his fate - CNN.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Iraqi High Tribunal is to convene in Baghdad to render verdicts and sentences for Hussein and seven 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 Dujail trial, the first in what is a series of proceedings against former regime officials, began October 19, 2005, and ended July 27.
		The remaining defendants are lower-level Baath Party officials from Dujail, who were charged with informing on Dujail residents who later died in prison or were sentenced to death.
	www.cnn.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2006/WORLD/meast/11/04/dujail.saddam (667 words)

	JURIST Search Results - dujail (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saddam Dujail verdict could be delayed again: Iraqi prosecutor
		[JURIST] The verdict in the Dujail crimes against humanity case [JURIST report] against Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] has been postponed despite previous expectations that it would be delivered October 16 [JURIST report], the court trying the....
		Dujail Judge Walid Ahmed was kidnapped from his car on the highway between Tikrit and Samarra, according....
	jurist.law.pitt.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /jurist_search.php?q=dujail (679 words)

	NPR : Saddam Hussein and the Executions of Dujail
		Morning Edition, June 7, 2005 · Judith Yaphe of the National Defense University discusses one of the incidents for which Saddam Hussein will be tried.
		In 1982, Saddam ordered the execution of at least 50 Iraqis in the northern, Shiite village of Dujail after his convoy was attacked.
		His response during this time of regime crisis foreshadowed his order to gas 5,000 Iraqi Kurds six years later in Halabja.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4683290 (182 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Saddam's half brother denies involvement in Dujail massacre
		Saddam Hussein's half brother, Barzan al-Tikriti, has denied involvement in mass reprisals ordered against a village after the ousted Iraqi leader escaped assassination there in 1982.
		"I arrested no one, it was the security services that were in charge" of operations in Dujail, Barzan said as the trial of Saddam and seven co-accused resumed before the Iraqi High Tribunal.
		Barzan, the seventh defendant to testify to charges of killing 148 Shiites in the village just north of Baghdad, said he only went to Dujail twice -- on the day of the assassination attempt and on the following day.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=18004 (662 words)

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