The Crime of Aggression

• As Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, complicit in launching two wars of aggression against Iran and Kuwait; invading Saudi Arabia and attacking the town of Khafji in January 1991.

• As Vice-Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, complicit in gross violations of Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time Of War and Geneva Convention III Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, committed by Iraqi forces during the war with Iran and the occupation of Kuwait between August 1990 - March 1991.

• Involved in the brutal repression of the Uprising which followed the Gulf War in 1991 including mass executions, torture and wanton destruction.

• As a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, complicit in the use of excessive military force against the Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq as part of an ongoing campaign against the Shi'as, including the deliberate destruction of the Marsh Arabs' way of life.

• As a member of the Revolutionary Command Council, complicit in the genocidal Anfal campaigns waged against the Kurds, including chemical weapons attacks, destruction of rural villages and the rural infrastructure and mass executions.