Amid the massive violence in Iraq, the Iraqi Special Tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein announced the first official charges against him. Saddam and three others face charges related to the alleged killings of about 150 Shiites in the Iraqi town of Dujail in 1982. The tribunal’s chief investigating judge said at a news conference in Baghdad that a date for the trial would be set “within days.” Saddam Hussein’s lawyers say they have not been given a single document to investigate and his lead lawyer says he has not seen his client in person since the late 1990s.