Iraq’s disbanded Baath party threatened to attack the heavily-protected “Green Zone” in Baghdad if the death sentence is carried out against its leader Saddam Hussein, in an Internet statement posted on Tuesday. “If president Saddam Hussein is executed ... the party will reinforce its siege against the Green Zone,” which houses Iraqi government offices and the US embassy, said the party’s command on its official site. It vowed to “use all possible means to destroy embassies, as well as the headquarters of intelligence and treacherous organisations”.| America and Iran, its ally, have detonated a bomb whose shrapnel will hit all the plotters and their agents in Iraq and outside. |
Ousted dictator Saddam Hussein called on all Iraqis to “forgive, reconcile and shake hands” as he appeared in court Tuesday to face genocide charges after being condemned to death in a separate trial. “I call on all Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, to forgive, reconcile and shake hands,” Saddam said in the court after he questioned the day’s third witness who testified against him in the genocide trial. Saddam brushed aside a Kurdish villager’s account on Tuesday of an alleged massacre, saying there was no proof.