Saddam Hussein today told the judge in his genocide trial that he no longer wants to attend the hearings and that he was ready to face the consequences.
In a hand-written Arabic statement, the toppled Iraqi leader cited what he claimed were repeated “insults” by the chief judge, Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, and prosecutors trying him in Baghdad for his role in the 1987-88 military campaign, code-named Operation Anfal.