Judge Mohammed al-Oreibi al-Khalifah threw Saddam out of the dock along with his co-defendant Hussein Rashid al-Tikriti after a dispute erupted over the former leader's attempt to read out a Koranic verse.
Rashid accused the prosecution of being "pimps and traitors" and a third defendant, Ali Hassan al-Majid, declared: "I want to see the sentence passed now. I wish to be executed and finish with this court."