Saddam accuser targets foreign arms merchants (demands compensation)

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Saddam accuser targets foreign arms merchants
By Ross Colvin

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S.-based Iraqi doctor, testifying in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein on Monday, demanded compensation from foreign companies she said supplied him with chemicals he is accused of using to gas Kurdish rebels.

As Americans marked the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, lawyers representing tens of thousands of Kurdish victims drew comparisons to label Saddam a "terrorist."

The ousted president, back in court after a three-week recess, angrily denied racist victimization of the Kurds -- he told Iraqis they "should not feel guilty" about the minority -- and spoke on Iraq's current political crisis by accusing his accusers of using the trial to divide the main communities.

Katherine Elias Mikhail described campaigning as a socialist rebel with Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas in the late 1980s when their mountain bases were bombed from the air with weapons that choked and blinded hundreds of people, including herself.

"I am complaining against Saddam Hussein, Ali Hassan al- Majeed, known as "Chemical Ali," and all the international organizations or companies which provided the Iraqi regime with these weapons," said Mikhail, from Iraq's Christian minority, who now lives in Virginia.

"I demand compensation," she said.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060911/ts_nm/iraq_saddam_dc

Too bad he doesn't name the companies.

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1. Not going to happen

The media and the powers that be would rather not have you think about what Saddam (And the Reagan Administration) was doing in the mid to late 80's.

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