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(14 Sep 2006) 1. Judge standing up in court room 2. Defendants in dock standing up 3. Lawyer speaking during proceedings 4. lectern with lawyer's notes 5. Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in dock 6. Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri sitting in court wearing headphones 7. Sultan Hashim, former Defence Minister, sitting in dock 8. Various of defendants in dock 9. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish) Abdullah Mohammed Hussein, Kurdish witness: "I told Saddam, 'Sir, my family members were arrested'. I asked him to set them free otherwise; life would be miserable without them. Saddam asked me where, and I told him, 'in my village'. Saddam said, 'Shut up. Your family is gone in the Anfal'," 10. Saddam in the dock 11. Mid shot of al-Amiri 12. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi leader: ''Why did he (the Kurdish witness) try to meet Saddam Hussein? Saddam Hussein is a dictator and an enemy to the Kurdish people as it was said.'' 13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri: "I will answer you. No, you are no dictator." 14. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi leader: "Pardon?" 15. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri: "You were not a dictator." (Saddam smiling) 16 SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi leader: "Anyway, thank you." 17. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri: "It is the people or officials around him who make a dictator..." 18. Saddam talking to the Chief Judge with other defendants in dock STORYLINE The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's genocide trial said on Thursday that he did not believe the former Iraqi leader was a dictator. Judge Abdullah al-Amiri made his remark in an exchange with Saddam during court proceedings, a day after the prosecution asked him to step down, alleging bias toward the defendants. On Thursday the former Iraqi leader said, ''Why did he (the Kurdish witness) try to meet Saddam Hussein? Saddam Hussein is a dictator and an enemy to the Kurdish people as it was said.'' "I will answer you. No, you are no dictator," Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri said. After appearing surprised at the comment, Saddam said "Pardon?" at which point the judge said "You were not a dictator". Saddam replied "thank you". "It is the people or officials around him who make a dictator...", Chief Judge Abdullah al-Amiri added. The exchange came after a shaken 57-year-old Kurdish witness told the court how an aggressive Saddam Hussein told him to "shut up" when he pleaded for the release of nine relatives who disappeared in an offensive on his northern Iraqi village nearly two decades ago. "I told Saddam, 'Sir, my family members were arrested'. Saddam asked me where, and I told him, 'in my village'. Saddam said, 'Shut up. Your family is gone in the Anfal'," said Abdullah Mohammed Hussein, referring to Iraq's 1987-88 campaign to suppress a Kurdish revolt in northern Iraq. The witness said he had not been shy about arguing with Saddam, whom he was allowed to see after pleading with local authorities in his village. Previous witnesses said the remains of their Anfal relatives were found in mass graves years later. Some have recounted how they survived chemical attacks allegedly carried out by Saddam's regime against the Kurdish population. Saddam has accused the Kurdish witnesses of trying to sow ethnic division in Iraq by alleging chemical attacks and mass arrests in their villages during a crackdown in the late 1980s. Saddam and six others, including his cousin "Chemical" Ali al-Majid, have been accused of genocide and other offences in connection with Anfal. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...