The trial of Saddam Hussein will open on the 19th of October, after the referendum on the constitution on the 15th of October.
Saddam and three co-defendants will stand trial for the 1982 massacre of Shiites in Dujail, after a failed assassination. He could receive the death penalty.
The other co-defendants are; Barazan Ibrahim, intelligence chief at the time and Saddam's half brother, former Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, at the time a Baath party official in Dujail.
Saddam is expected to face a dozen trials for alleged crimes committed by his regime.
The question is, given the rising tensions in the country especially since the stampede of pilgrims, will there be a unified country left in which to try him?
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