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24 Dec 2005, 5:32 pm
[JURIST] An Iraqi court ruled Saturday that some 100 as-yet-publicly-unspecified candidates - most believed to be Sunnis - who ran in the December 15 Iraqi parliamentary elections will be struck and not allowed to serve in the next national assembly due to previous associations with Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party [BBC backgrounder]. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 12:13 am
[JURIST] The Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal [governing statute, PDF] on Tuesday sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], better known in the Western media as "Chemical Ali," to death for his involvement in the repression of Shiites in southern Iraq during the regime of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 11:38 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi appeals panel that had ruled last week that 500 mostly Sunni politicians accused of ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party [BBC backgrounder] could stand in the coming elections reversed its decision Sunday. [read post]
20 Aug 2005, 9:16 am
The US-led occupation placed a moratorium on capital punishment after removing former dictator Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] in 2003; after [read post]
3 May 2007, 8:17 am
[JURIST] The US Commission on International Religious Freedom [official website] Wednesday released [press release] its annual report on worldwide religious freedom [PDF], finding for the first time since the ouster of Saddam Hussein that freedom of religious worship in Iraq is under severe threat. [read post]
18 Mar 2004, 9:16 am
In testimony Thursday before a House subcommittee, the General Accounting Office estimated that in the years prior to its overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime raised more than $10.1 billion illegally through unauthorized oil sales, surcharges and kickbacks. [read post]
19 Jun 2005, 8:47 am
[JURIST] Ali Hassan al-Majid, otherwise known in Western media as "Chemical Ali" [BBC profile], was questioned Thursday by an Iraqi tribunal preparing for the trials of the leaders of Saddam Hussein's regime. [read post]
23 Dec 2006, 11:51 am
[JURIST] Several Iraqi citizens sued a leading European bank and Australia's wheat exporting agency in New York federal court Friday for corporate misconduct facilitating the corruption of the Iraq Oil-for-Food program [JURIST news archive] which bilked Iraqis out of humanitarian aid while simultaneously enriching the Saddam Hussein regime. [read post]
27 Mar 2007, 12:56 pm
[JURIST] Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki [BBC profile] and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani [official website, in Arabic; BBC profile] announced plans Tuesday to present new legislation to the Iraqi National Assembly [official website] in upcoming weeks that would allow most members of Saddam Hussein's now-defunct Baath Party [BBC backgrounder] to be reinstated to public life. [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 5:17 am
[JURIST] Former Saddam-era deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], brought before the Iraqi High Tribunal [official website] Monday to testify against six defendants accused of genocide in the Anfal trial [JURIST news archive; BBC trial timeline], instead denied that Hussein's government had ever carried out any such attacks. [read post]
4 Jun 2004, 5:52 am
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today dismissed a suit brought by POWs of the 1991 Gulf War against Iraq and Saddam Hussein that had resulted in a $959 million judgment. [read post]
17 Feb 2005, 8:10 pm
[JURIST] Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi [CBC profile] Thursday warned the Shiite coalition victorious in last month's election [JURIST report] against banning the Ba'ath Party [Wikipedia entry; 2002 Le Monde backgrounder in English] formerly associated with Saddam Hussein from any involvement in government, saying that would cause even greater upheaval and unrest in the region. [read post]
11 May 2007, 2:54 am
During defense closing arguments [JURIST report], al-Majid defended the government of Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] for its actions during the "Anfal campaign" [read post]
17 Mar 2003, 8:32 pm
The President issued an ultimatum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave Iraq within 48 hours or face military action. [read post]
27 Jun 2005, 3:15 pm
The urbane onetime Iraqi foreign minister, the only Christian in the Iraqi leadership and often the global media face of Saddam Hussein's government, was shown in court footage released Monday, in which he was asked about correspondence with [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 10:55 am
Longtime readers of “The Wall of Separation” might remember William “Jerry” Boykin, an Army general who in 2003 sparked controversy for giving speeches to fundamentalist Christian audiences during which he asserted, among other things, that Muslims worship idols and that the real enemy of America is not Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein but Satan. [read post]
15 Jul 2007, 5:44 am
[JURIST] Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh announced Saturday that Ali Hassan al-Majid, often called "Chemical Ali", will be hanged in the Kurdish town of Halabja where a notorious 1988 gas attack [US State Department backgrounder] by Saddam Hussein's forces during the 1988 "Anfal campaign" led to the deaths of over 5000 Kurds, many of them children. [read post]
1 May 2007, 11:36 am
Al Masri, the bloodthirsty terrorist who attacked us on 9/11, who supposedly is the key to the whole Iraq Debacle, now that the previous two keys, Saddam Hussein and Zarqawi are dead (not to mention 8 million #3s), is DEAD! [read post]
24 Jan 2006, 11:35 am
Park faces charges of money laundering and conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's former government and is accused of taking more than $2 million [read post]
27 Jan 2003, 10:21 am
Read the indictment [PDF text], which includes excerpts from a letter allegedly written by Regan to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. [read post]
