The Butcher of Baghdad, (Saddam Hussein) Goes on trial Wednesday

Trial begins Wednesday, October 19, 2005 for Saddam Hussein and seven others.
Who will be on trial and for what you ask??? Let’s check it out....
Those on Trial well be:
1) Ex-President of Iraq-- Saddam Hussein
2) Ex-Vice President-- Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi
3) Saddam's half-brother and a former Security Chief-- Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti
4) Former Chief Judge-- Awad Hamed al-Bander
5) Former Ba’th Party Official in the Dujail area-- Abdullah Khadem Ruaid
6) Former Ba’th Party Official in the Dujail area-- Mizher Abdulah Rawed
7) Former Ba’th Party Official in the Dujail area-- Ali Daeem Ali
8) Former Ba’th Party Official in the Dujail area-- Mohammed Azawi Ali
... ...(I think these names are spelled correctly- depends on whose translation you believe in most ...)

Saddam Hussein and the seven others will all be charged in connection with the massacre of 143 people in the Shiite village of Dujail in 1982 following an assignation attempt on Saddam’s life.
Good read on topic at BBC NEWS World Edition ‘Dujail victims await Saddam trial’