BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The prosecution on Tuesday played audiotapes said to be of Saddam Hussein's cousin, Ali Hassan al-Majeed, who was heard to call Iraq's current president, Jalal Talabani, "wicked and a pimp" and vow not to leave alive anyone who spoke the Kurdish language.

Talabani was a Kurdish guerrilla leader when the recording allegedly was made of al-Majeed, who also is known as known as "Chemical Ali" for allegedly using chemical weapons against Kurds during the 1980s.

Hussein suspected the Kurds, a non-Arab ethnic group in northern Iraq, of siding with Iran during the 1980-88 war between Baghdad and Tehran.

Al-Majeed later told the court that he used such language as "psychological and propaganda" tools against the Kurds, to frighten them into not fighting government forces.

"All the words used by me, such as 'deport them' or 'wipe them out,' were only for psychological effect," al-Majeed said, as the so-called Anfal case continued before the Iraqi High Tribunal...