BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's High Tribunal convicted three Saddam Hussein
co-defendants of murder and torture on Sunday and sentenced them to up to 15
years in prison. A fourth defendant was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Saddam and seven co-defendants were charged with crimes against humanity
in the 1982 killings of 148 people in the town of Dujail after a failed
assassination attempt on the former leader. If convicted, Saddam could face
death by hanging.
The judge presiding over the trial of Saddam Hussein and seven others on
charges of crimes against humanity ejected former U.S. attorney general Ramsey
Clark, part of an international defence team, from the
court.