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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Gunmen kill Saddam tribunal judge |
 | | Saddam, 67, is expected to be tried next year after prosecutors build up evidence against him in other cases, possibly starting as early as next month with the trial of five men accused of purging the village of Dujayl in 1982 after residents ambushed the president's convoy. |
 | | Charges against the five, who include Taha Yasin Ramadan, the former deputy prime minister, and Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half-brother and a former intelligence chief, were referred last Sunday, a process similiar to an indictment. |
 | | The hearing took place in secret but at a press conference journalists were shown a silent 10-minute video of the defendants sitting at a wooden table, their hands cuffed, and an investigative judge sitting on a bench with a small Iraqi flag on his desk. |
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