New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
“The Trial of Saddam Hussein,” part of the series “America at a Crossroads,” is a useful summary of the trial that resulted in Mr. Hussein’s hanging in late 2006.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The United States is preparing to hand control of Saddam Hussein's Republican Palace in Baghdad to the Iraqi Government in one of the most symbolic examples of the country's increasing sovereignty.
Iraq Blog Count (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
The son of Saddam Hussein's sister and former bodyguard, Al-Hussein Arshad Yassin writes omewhat irregularly on, as expected, his blog is very defensive of Uncle and Uncle's policies regarding several topics, including Iraqi Jews : Now we come to the part where you are all waiting for. So how did Saddam Hussein defend Iraqi Jews? In the year 1992 there was nothing left of Iraqi Jews only 40 families...
Chicago Boyz (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
From a comment by Aaron C. at Vodkapundit: The Iraq war was a no brainer. Saddam had been a threat to the region which prevented growth and development throughout, he used the implied threat to bully neighboring countries, al qaeda types and other small minded anti-americans saw allowing Saddam’s apparent (real or not) transgressions as taking [...]
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Nearly two years after an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, new disclosures by Western lawyers who helped guide the court have given fresh ammunition to critics who contend that he was railroaded to the gallows.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Nearly two years after an Iraqi court sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, new disclosures by Western lawyers who helped guide the court have given fresh ammunition to critics who contend that he was railroaded to the gallows by vengeful officials in Iraq's new government.
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
LIKE 65.45 per cent of one-armed Jewish lesbians, Anorak loves a good survey. And out attention is drawn to a survey commissioned by American Research Group. On the matter of the economy, the survey polled a perfect 100 per cent, a score only previously achieved by Saddam Hussein, Big Brother’s Charley Uchea and the Labour Cabinet, who [...]
Sparks from the Anvil (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
Mr. RUSSERT: Do we have any evidence linking Saddam Hussein or Iraqis to this operation? VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. Meet the Press, September 16, 2001 I can't remember who it was now, but a commenter on another blog posed a challenge to me that echoed what I have already been pondering upon: If Bush didn't lie, why do (or did) so many Americans think that Saddam is linked to the events of 9/11? I ran...
Say Anything (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Anne Kornblut, writing in the Washington Post , thinks so: Gov. Sarah Palin linked the war in Iraq with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, telling an Iraq-bound brigade of soldiers that included her son that they would “defend the innocent from the enemies who planned and carried out and rejoiced in the death of thousands of Americans.” The idea that the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein helped al-Qaeda...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A television executive who is alleged to have forced a senior female employee from her job at the AlJazeera television network because she was a Western Christian woman had the "managerial skills of Saddam Hussein" a tribunal has heard.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Ruling follows three-year battle by journalist Chris Ames to obtain drafts of documents
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Ruling follows three-year battle by journalist Chris Ames to obtain drafts of documents
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
A British soldier shot dead a sleeping colleague by mistake in Iraq as he "messed about" with a sniper rifle at their barracks in Saddam Hussein's former palace a court martial heard.
Liberal England (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
If you have heard Tony Benn interviewed recently you will know that he is fond of saying there are five questions we should ask of any politician: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you use it? To whom are you accountable? How do we get rid of you?' Except that, as Oliver Kamm points out, that is not precisely what he said to Saddam. It was more: "I have 10 grandchildren...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Under Saddam Hussein, gay life in Iraq existed relatively peacefully in a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" sort of vein. Since the US invasion and the rise of sharia law, gays have been routinely rounded up, raped and murdered. Most gay men in Iraq now live hidden and terrified. Iraqi officials generally refuse to even discuss the situation and those that do say that gays are getting what's coming to them....
