An Iraqi court heard on Sunday the concluding remarks from prosecutors and the defence team in the death squad trial of Iraq’s Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi. Hashemi’s defense lawyers submitted a number of requests to the court, including the Court of Cassation’s decision to reject testimony by President Jalal Talabani and his former vice president Adel Abdul-Mahdi and five deputies The trial, which began in May, has been over the assassinations of two security officials and a lawyer, the first of around 150 charges leveled against Hashemi and his bodyguards.