Saddam's Charges

The AP has a list of the charges Saddam Hussein will face. Here they are:

• The 1987-88 Anfal campaign, a depopulation plan in which hundreds of thousands of Kurds were killed or expelled from northern Iraq.

• Mortar bombardment of Kirkuk. No details available.

• The events of 1991 in southern Iraq, referring to Saddam's suppression of a Shiite uprising following the U.S.-led Gulf War in Kuwait.

• The massacre of Dujail, the 1982 execution of at least 50 Iraqis in the Shiite town 50 miles north of Baghdad, in retaliation for a failed assassination attempt against Saddam.

• Forced emigration of the Fayli Kurds, thousands of Shiite Kurds who were pushed from northern Iraq into Iran.• Halabja, a Kurdish town where a chemical weapons attack killed an estimated 5,000 people in 1988.

• The execution of 8,000 members of the Barzani tribe, a powerful Kurdish clan to which the current Kurdistan Democratic Party leader, Massoud Barzani, belongs.

• The 1990 invasion of Kuwait, which Iraqi forces occupied for seven months until being expelled by a U.S.-led coalition during the 1991 Gulf War.

• Execution of prominent religious figures. No details provided.

• Execution of prominent political figures. No details provided

• Crimes against religious parties. No details provided.

• Crimes against political parties. No details provided.

• Crimes against secular parties. No details provided.

• The drying of the southern marshes. Saddam ordered new dams, canals and dikes built to drain the Mesopotamian marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers following the 1991 Shiite uprising. Thousands of Shiites lived and fished in the area that was reputed to contain the biblical Garden of Eden but was turned into an arid salt bed.