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First Trial of Saddam
Saddam and seven co-defendants have been on trial for the 1982 killings of 148 Shiite villagers in Dujail after a failed assassination attempt against the head of Iraq. A guilty conviction could warrant a death penalty. Future cases will likely include Saddam's Anfal Offensive that killed 180,000 Kurds in late 1980s, allegedly poison gas attack on Halabja that killed supposedly 5,000 Kurds in 1988, suppression of Kurdish and Shiite revolts in 1991, and invasion of Kuwait in 1990. #32_pdf file articleofaldujail