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Hyperallergic
April 20, 2018
Abdulwahed was the original impetus behind the project before his death in 2016; recordings of his narrative are combined with intimate interviews, ... of a high-end Manhattan restaurant on Saddam Hussein's china (pillaged by Iraqi refugees and US soldiers and then sold on eBay) — Rakowitz facilitatesÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
April 20, 2018
... number of meetings to rise a month before the elections,” said Fayha Bayatlı, a former Iraqi member of parliament in an exclusive interview with Yeni Şafak daily. ... The vote is the fourth to be held in the Arab country since U.S.-led forces invaded Iraq to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Santa Barbara Independent
April 19, 2018
When I showed up at a strip-mall sushi bar in Goleta this Tuesday to interview Ambassador Joe Wilson, the famous bad-boy retired diplomat, it was ... He was working the Baghdad bureau when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein personally threatened to hang him — and all embassy staff — if he helpedÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations
April 17, 2018
Two-thirds of the chemical weapons Saddam Hussein used were deployed in the last eighteen months of the war, including the 1988 chemical attack to ... that has been under attack, such as photos, videos, and reports from first responders and survivors, as well as interviews with the Syrian government.
Hollywood Reporter
April 12, 2018
Amanpour conducted a memorable live phone interview with Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat from his besieged compound in Ramallah in March 2002. She was the only journalist to report from inside the courtroom during the 2004 trial of Saddam Hussein. She was the last journalist to interviewÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 11, 2018
The sheikh told Al-Monitor in an interview last year that during Saddam Hussein's regime, he had been in exile in countries that included Syria, the Netherlands and the United States but had chosen to return to Iraq. He said there was a prewar population of 240,000 people in the city and a total of aroundÃâà...
NPR
March 25, 2018
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: The survey group has not found evidence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction stocks prior to the war. Is that correct? UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: That's correct. GARCIA-NAVARRO: At the height of the war, there were almost 170,000 U.S. troops in Iraq tryingÃâà...
CNN
March 23, 2018
Back then, while working in the Bush administration, Bolton made the case at home and abroad that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and that the US role in the aftermath of regime change in Iraq would be "fairly minimal." Trump, by the way, has pointed to his own opposition to theÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 8, 2018
I think we might reach 150,000 or 200,000 viewers in Iraqi cinemas,” he said in an interview with Al-Monitor at the National Theater. Yet the film, which will also screen in theaters in 12 Arab ... 30, 2006, the day former President Saddam Hussein was hanged. As she considers her situation, she is reluctant toÃâà...
NBC Bay Area
March 8, 2018
Saddam Hussein, whose regime used chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s, gave veiled hints of possessing even more powerful ... stating he'll comply with a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller hours after a bizarre and defiant interview with MSNBC's Katy Tur in which heÃâà...
CBC.ca (blog)
March 6, 2018
"Setting the film during the Gulf War was an opportunity to have Walter gas about something," said Ethan in an interview. "And it's more attractive to make something time specific than just present day." In one of the film's dream sequences, former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is even seen working at aÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 6, 2018
Bernard-Henri Levy, a renowned French intellectual, author, and filmmaker during an interview with Kurdistan 24 in Washington DC. ... Kurdistan Region, remarking that, for the Kurds, there is little difference between current Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and former dictator of Iraq Saddam Hussein.
The New Indian Express
March 4, 2018
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi government has been urged to seize the assets of dozens of relatives and cronies of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, in a letter seen Sunday by AFP. The letter ... "We've been subjected to pressure and injustice for 15 years, it's enough," he told AFP in a telephone interview. "WhenÃâà...
War on the Rocks
February 26, 2018
In fact, we have troves of sources on one very important and still fairly recent case: Saddam Hussein's Iraq. .... Alpert is a serious journalist and he asked Saddam pointed questions during the interview, but he also allowed the regime to lead him on a well-orchestrated tour of a hospital, highlightingÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
February 22, 2018
A recent claim by an Iranian official that his country was behind the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was met with a wave of criticism ... During a television interview, member of the Supreme Council for the Cultural Revolution, Rahimpour Azghadi, said five countries are under the controlÃâà...
FRONTLINE
February 20, 2018
Starting with Saddam Hussein, continuing with Al Qaeda, with Daesh, with Al Nusra [Front], they made all the wrong choices. Now, in order to be able to one way or the other justify what they're doing, they have to do this name calling. Iran has supported the cause of Palestine. Is Palestine a Shia revolution?
Middle East Eye
February 8, 2018
Arabic press review: Iraq and Jordan squabble over Saddam Hussein's daughter ... which provides the conviction of a Saudi suspect of libel and abuse of the Royal Court and its employees by talking about it in a television interview and describing it as the source and origin of administrative corruption.".
The Punch
February 5, 2018
Iraqi security services revealed their “most wanted list” of 60 people, with Raghad, the eldest daughter of Saddam Hussein, on it. ... According to Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV channel, Raghad responded in a telephone interview that she has pledged to confront those who “insult her” by suing them back.
The Epoch Times
February 5, 2018
Iraqi security services have included the daughter of the late Saddam Hussein on its most wanted list, along with 59 other individuals. ... Raghad Saddam Hussein, the fallen Iraqi dictator's eldest daughter, responded in an interview with Saudi-owned news outlet Al Arabiya, vowing to sue all those who haveÃâà...
The National
February 5, 2018
"I didn't have any role in the Baathist system, even when the US occupied Iraq in 2003," Ms Hussein told Al Arabiya in an interview. Although reported to be living in Jordan, she denied now being there but did not elaborate on her whereabouts. Some of the names mentioned in the list are already includedÃâà...
CNN
December 31, 1999
The more raids the US military carried out in their hunt for Saddam Hussein's henchmen and, later, in their targeting of the then-nascent insurgency, the ... CNN was not aware of the allegation at the time of the interview with Hussein and was not permitted access to Hussein to seek comment on theseÃâà...
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