'Just some juniors overreacting'

Unidentified witness testifies against Saddam.

The woman - known only as Witness A - told the court in Baghdad how she had been forced to strip in custody. Crying, she said her brother and other family members had been taken away by Saddam's forces before security agents ordered her to "take off my clothes in a room".

The woman said Wadah al-Sheik, an Iraqi intelligence officer who died of cancer last month, told her to strip.

"Then he fired a shot at the wall and I thought it is real ... but it turned to be sound bullet," she said. "I was forced to take off my clothes, and he raised my legs up and tied up my hands. He continued administering electric shocks and beating me."