Former Iraqi minister says US forced testimony against Saddam

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Former Iraqi minister says US forced testimony against Saddam
By DPA
May 29, 2006, 19:00 GMT

Baghdad - The Iraqi High Court reconvened Monday to hear the testimonies of defence witnesses in the trial against ousted dictator Saddam Hussein as a former Iraqi interior minister claimed the invading US army forced people to testify against Saddam.

'US forces had applied pressure on us to testify against President Saddam Hussein,\' Mohammad Zaman Abdel Razeq Saadoun told the court.

Saddam and seven of his associates are accused of killing 148 people in the village of Dujail as revenge for an assassination attempt on Saddam by Dujail residents in the summer of 1982.

Saadoun said that compensation was provided to all of Dujail\'s residents who had also had their agricultural lands dug up and destroyed in the revenge attack.

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