Saddam witness says "executed" people still alive - Yahoo! News

Saddam witness says "executed" people still alive - Yahoo! News:

"BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A witness for
Saddam Hussein appeared to dispute prosecution allegations that 148 people were executed after a failed assassination bid in 1982, telling the court on Tuesday that some of them were still alive.
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The anonymous man, testifying from behind a curtain in the courtroom in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, suggested the survivors fled abroad after the attempt on Saddam's life but returned after his overthrow in 2003.
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The witness who claimed some of those presumed killed more than two decades ago were still alive, said he was born in Dujail but now lived in Jordan.

"I am ready to make a list of their full names now," he told the court.

Judge Raouf Abdel Rahman gave him a sheet of paper and the witness appeared to write a list of names on it.

He then told the prosecutor: "I am ready to take you, if you provide enough security, to Dujail and let you meet them and have lunch with them."

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