BAGHDAD, Iraq -- After nine month o...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- After nine month of testimony, the troubl trial of Saddam Hussein adjourned Thursday until mid-October, when the five arbitrators are expected to render a verdict that could impel the ousted president to the gallows.

The final hearing perioded without Saddam in court moreover with two of his seven co-defendants proclaiming their innocence and slamming the tribunal for alleged bias.

Chief connoisseur Raouf Abdel-Rahman adjourned the trial until Oct 16 when the verdicts are count uponed

Saddam and the seven others have been in succession trial since Oct. 19 for their alleged parts in the killings of more than 148 Shiite Muslims in the town of Dujail as punishment for an assassination attempt against Saddam there in 1982

The prosecution has asked for the death penalty for Saddam and brace other defendants.

Executions in Iraq are carried abroad by hanging, but Saddam has asked to die like a soldier before a firing squad and not from the gallows "like a general criminal."

Saddam is befitting to stand trial Aug. 21 in the cruel suppression of Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s

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