Iraq to charge Saddam with war crimes
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-07-01 10:21

A defaced portrait of Saddam Hussein hangs at an abandoned Iraqi army base in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib May 31, 2004. Saddam Hussein appeared before an Iraqi judge Wednesday as Iraq's newly sovereign government took the first step toward bringing him to justice -- and a possible death penalty -- for 35 years of killing and torture. [Reuters]

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