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Blasting News
February 20, 2018
The ghost of Saddam Hussein still dominates #Iraq.The dictator was overthrown and then executed after a farcical trial. His daughter #Raghad Hussein and wife had escaped to Jordan where King Abdullah gave them refuge.The Hashemite dynasty had made it clear that the wife and daughter of SaddamÃÂ ...
The Wire
February 20, 2018
A heated discussion continues, as some scholars refute any such influence of Saddam Hussein's late order, claiming that IS is primarily the consequence of a decade-long foreign occupation and its dramatic effects. Others, often on ideological grounds, bring forward the opposite view: They claim that evenÃÂ ...
Newstalk ZB
February 19, 2018
That role included hostage negotiations and accompanying scientists from the Hague gathering evidence for the war crimes trial of Saddam Hussein. Mitchell did not believe there was a skeleton in his closet, saying he would not have got into politics if that was the case. Mitchell relied on that background toÃÂ ...
Fresno Bee
February 12, 2018
Kuwait on Monday opened a week of conferences seeking aid for rebuilding Iraq after the onslaught of the Islamic State group, seeking tens of billions of dollars for a nation only a generation ago that invaded it. Authorities estimate Iraq needs $88.2 billion to restore a country smashed after the SunniÃÂ ...
Arab News
January 29, 2018
Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein scratches his beard as he listens to the prosecution during the 'Anfal' genocide trial in Baghdad, 20 December 2006. The prosecution presented today new documents as evidence that chemical weapons have been used against civilian Kurds during the 1980's.
RT
January 20, 2018
Whatever the case may be, the timing of the attack – on the very day of Lewinsky's return to the grand jury trial – was suspicious to say the least. ... at the UN General Assembly, as he shook a vial of faux anthrax, suggesting that Saddam Hussein possessed enough of the deadly bacteria to wreak havoc.
PennLive.com
January 19, 2018
The trial of Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity began on Oct. 19. A year later, Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging for his crimes. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, chief of state to Vice President Dick Cheney, resigned on Oct. 28 after being charged with obstruction of justice, perjury and making aÃÂ ...
Wichita Eagle
January 18, 2018
When Iraqi forces drove Islamic State militants out of eastern Mosul a year ago, Nashwan Shakir Mahmoud raced back to his home, hoping that his red and white 1955 Chevrolet coupe had survived three years of war and upheaval. When he saw that it had only suffered light damage from a mortar shell thatÃÂ ...
Citrus County Chronicle
January 12, 2018
During Bud Thorn's trial on Thursday, Sgt. Ed Blair, of the Citrus County Sheriff's Office narcotics unit, points to a photo purportedly of drugs and paraphernalia found in Thorn's Inverness ... “They looked like they were looking for Saddam Hussein when they came into the house,” Klatt said about police.
Southeast Missourian
January 11, 2018
Ferrell also was part of the U.S. team advising Iraqi prosecutors in presenting evidence of war crimes in the trial of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Naz Shareef, originally from Kurdistan, served as translator and cultural adviser for his team in Iraq. Ferrell was instrumental in helping Shareef attain U.S.ÃÂ ...
GazetteNET
January 5, 2018
Therefore, they were entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge to contest their deportation. Then, on Jan. 2, Goldsmith considered the plight of those same individuals who are indeed challenging ICE's plan to deport them to Iraq but who, as they wait for their hearings, have “languished in detentionÃÂ ...
Southeast Missourian
December 22, 2017
Longtime prosecutor Larry Ferrell plans to retire at year's end, concluding a more than three-decade career prosecuting thousands of cases and many of the area's worst criminals. Ferrell prosecuted cases for Cape Girardeau County for six years in the 1980s, the last four as prosecuting attorney. He workedÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
October 19, 2017
The Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein – who had ruled the country since 1979 – escaped from the capital and headed into the countryside. He evaded capture for eight months, until betrayed to US forces, who found him on 13 December in an underground hide at a farmhouse near Tikrit. The US keptÃÂ ...
Fresno Bee
December 31, 1999
The head of the U.N.'s mine-clearing agency in Iraq says it will have to reassess priorities with the government in Baghdad if a major donors conference fails to drum up enough funds for the country as it rebuilds. Pehr Lodhammar, a senior program manager for the United Nations Mine Action Service, toldÃÂ ...
The Nation Newspaper
September 20, 2017
SHAC in a motion submitted to the panel's public hearing holding in ... of Iraq and the subsequent execution of its then leader, Saddam Hussein. ... threat of trial for human rights abuse at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Quartz
September 19, 2017
During her confirmation hearing last January, Haley described the UN as “an institution that is often at odds with American national interestsÃÂ ...
Miami Herald
September 17, 2017
... the U.S.-led 1991 war that ended Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's occupation of the country. Kuwait now hosts some 13,500 American troops.
News24
September 7, 2017
Reading up on the likes of Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, Mabutu ... He spent the next 30 years in and out of trial and prison until hisÃÂ ...
WHIO
September 5, 2017
"Saddam Hussein rejected the production of weapons of mass destruction, but even .... The episode occurred on the morning of the third day of the murder trialÃÂ ...
BBC News
August 22, 2017
... as headlining stories including Saddam Hussein's trial, the death of ... and for C4 include The Trial, Children's Hospital, and Big Ballet and AÃÂ ...
Richmond.com
August 18, 2017
The commission recently held a public hearing that turned raucous, ... When Saddam Hussein was thrown from power in Iraq, monuments toÃÂ ...
Newsweek
August 17, 2017
That's a much lower standard than for criminal trials. ... diplomat the CIA sent to investigate claims that Saddam Hussein was seeking to acquireÃÂ ...
RollingStone.com
August 16, 2017
... the TV news right alongside the hunt for Saddam Hussein. .... him in two damning photographs that haunted him throughout his eventual trial.
Wisconsin Public Radio News
August 8, 2017
30, 2006, Saddam Hussein, the deposed president of Iraq, was executed by ... Their charge was to protect this man through the trial, seeing himÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
July 31, 2017
They added that any attempt to put Blair on trial for committing a ... that Iraq's then-leader Saddam Hussein did not pose an imminent threat toÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
July 21, 2017
... The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, ... after Saddam's trial and execution in 2006 or after the withdrawal ofÃÂ ...
Albany Times Union
December 31, 1999
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently stated that North Koreans remember how Saddam Hussein was tried and sentenced to death.
AlterNet
December 31, 1999
... and survivors are continuing their efforts to take Saudi Arabia to trial. ... a concocted story that a representative of Saddam Hussein had metÃÂ ...
Sacramento Bee
December 31, 1999
... in Iraq, the United States accused the Ukrainian government of selling sophisticated Kolchuga military radars to Saddam Hussein's military.
Vanity Fair
December 31, 1999
“He has seen leaders like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi ... You may be hearing some frightening rhetoric from our president, but if itÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
... written on 19 August 1990, days after Saddam Hussein's forces had ... a vast demonstration range with live ammunition and 'real' trials.”.
BusinessWorld Online Edition
March 24, 2017
The 2003 US invasion of Iraq was predicated partly on the argument that Saddam Hussein was violating the rights of his own people.
Indiana Daily Student
March 24, 2017
After the first Gulf War, AlHaj's activism against the Saddam Hussein regime forced him to leave his home country. He moved to Jordan and Syria before beginning his life as a political refugee in the United States in 2000, according to his website.
Workers World
March 22, 2017
Shortly thereafter the Pentagon invaded Iraq with "shock and awe" and captured and killed President Saddam Hussein. In 2003, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi surrendered his nuclear program for fear of a similar U.S.
CNN
March 22, 2017
Trump's repudiation by FBI Director James Comey in a sensational hearing Monday came exactly two months into an administration unusually prone to obfuscation, blurring facts and peddling falsehoods.
The New Arab
March 22, 2017
Saddam Hussein's granddaughter was named the best young fashion designer at a Kurdish cultural festival held in Jordan on Monday, Kurdish media reported.
News & Observer
March 22, 2017
He has a hearing set for May 5. There was a "Saddam" naming boom in the early 1990s among middle- and lower-class Indians, especially Muslims, according to India Today.
The Atlantic
March 22, 2017
Three decades ago, the long-fought Iran-Iraq war had reached a deadly stalemate, the stock markets took a huge hit on Black Monday in October, American politicians were gearing up for the 1988 presidential race, Baby Jessica was rescued from a well,ÃÂ ...
NOLA.com
March 22, 2017
"He's venturing into Baghdad Bob territory," one White House reporter told CNN, referring to the Saddam Hussein spokesman known for his enthusiastic denials of things that were happening in plain view of all. Hussein was defeated and the objections ofÃÂ ...
The Keene Sentinel
March 22, 2017
Martha Frizzell, Charlestown, member of the House Judiciary Committee which amended the original bill, said at a hearing today, "Politics is the science of the possible and that certainly pertains to this bill.
Personal Liberty Digest
March 22, 2017
After 9/11, America was defending liberty again with a second call to arms against Saddam Hussein, aka Adolph Hitler. ... After hearing one of his speeches during the 2008 presidential campaign, Chris Matthews displayed the discipline of a teenager.
CNN
March 22, 2017
Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, pressed Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers about Stone during the hearing. "On August 8th, Roger Stone, a longtime Trump political adviser and self-proclaimedÃÂ ...
CNN International
March 22, 2017
Trump's repudiation by FBI Director James Comey in a sensational hearing Monday came exactly two months into an administration unusually prone to obfuscation, blurring facts and peddling falsehoods.
Personal Liberty Digest
March 21, 2017
After 9/11, America was defending liberty again with a second call to arms against Saddam Hussein, aka Adolph Hitler. ... After hearing one of his speeches during the 2008 presidential campaign, Chris Matthews displayed the discipline of a teenager.
Indiatimes.com
March 21, 2017
Fourteen years have passed since the US forces set their foot on the Iraqi soil for what they projected as a war to find the weapons of mass destructions (WMD); to bring democracy for the people of Iraq and continue their so-called war on terror that ...
Media Matters for America (blog)
March 21, 2017
Monday's House Intelligence Committee hearing delivered a trifecta of bad news for President Donald Trump. FBI Director James Comey confirmed the bureau ... The highly anticipated hearing represented an across-the-board public debunking of Trump. But ...
Khaleej Times
March 21, 2017
Years after his execution, former Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein haunts a 25-year-old Indian. The young marine engineer, named Saddam Husain by his grandfather, is unable to get a job because of his namesake.
The National
March 20, 2017
In his 2003 state of the union address, George W Bush announced: "The British government has learnt that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The first 10 years of the new millennium were later referred to as ...
India Today
March 20, 2017
A man, Saddam Hussein, surrendered on Monday in a Coimbatore court, four days after an atheist was murdered in cold blood in the city.
StarNewsOnline.com
March 20, 2017
In 2003, Belville and Leland were awaiting a trial date to settle a lawsuit over which town could annex Jackeys Creek, Olde Towne and other areas between the two towns.
