(14 Feb 2006) SHOTLIST
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1. Chief judge Raouf AbdelRahman
2. Saddam Hussein shouting "Long live the mujahedeen", then sits
3. AbdelRahman
4. Saddam
5. Codefendant Barzan Ibrahim entering court chanting "Long live the Baath", then sits
6. Saddam
7. AbdelRahman talking bangs gavel
8. Ibrahim stands as witness enters
9. Court officials standing
10. Witness behind curtain
11. Court official listening to witness testimony
12. Wide shot of defendants
STORYLINE:
Saddam Hussein announced in court that he was on hunger strike to protest tough stances by the chief judge in another turbulent start Tuesday to the latest session of his trial.
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Saddam shouted his support for Iraqi insurgents, yelling "Long live the mujahedeen" as he entered the courtroom and immediately began a heated exchange with with chief judge Raouf AbdelRahman.
His top codefendant Barzan Ibrahim alTikriti entered wearing long underwear for the second day to purportedly to signal his rejection of the court.
The session immediately saw heated exchanges between Saddam and chief judge Raouf
AbdelRahman, who rebuked the former Iraqi leader for not standing when he addressed the court.
When the judge banged his gavel, Saddam dressed in a dark suit retorted, "Hit your own head with that gavel."
Barzan shouted "Long live the Baath" as he made his entrance to the court.
Barzan, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, wore a similar outfit on Monday when the chief judge forced all eight defendants in the case to attend the session despite a defence boycott.
Barzan and Saddam did not mention whether they were attending Tuesday's session against their will.
Prosecutors are trying to prove Saddam's role in a wave of arrests and executions that followed a 1982 attempt on his life in the Shiite village of Dujail.
Twentysix prosecution witnesses have testified since the Saddam trial began October 19, many providing accounts of torture and imprisonment in the crackdown, but they could not directly pin them on Saddam.
Saddam and his seven codefendants are on trial in the killing of nearly 150 Shiite Muslims in Dujail. If convicted, they could face the death penalty by hanging.

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