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27 Aug 2007, 5:06 am
Easing de-Ba'athification laws passed after the 2003 US invasion has long been seen as a vital step if disenchanted Sunnis, who formed the backbone of Saddam Hussein's regime and, since its fall, of the insurgency, are to be persuaded to take part in Iraqi political life. [read post]
26 Aug 2007, 12:49 am
New report from the RAND Corporation:"The monograph examines the battlefield consequences of Saddam Husseinâ € ™s strategic misjudgments and preoccupation with internal threats; the poorly designed and executed Iraqi military strategy and operations; the weak motivation and morale that permeated all ranks... [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 3:21 pm
[JURIST] Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], also known as Chemical Ali, personally killed at least 15 men suspected of participating in a Shi'a uprising [HRW backgrounder] in southern Iraq following the 1991 Persian Gulf War, according to testimony offered Thursday in the crimes against humanity trial [JURIST report] [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 9:13 am
The defendants - including Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive], Hussein's personal secretary and bodyguard Abed [read post]
20 Aug 2007, 11:05 am
[JURIST] A Jordanian government spokesperson said Monday that Jordan does not currently have plans to hand over Raghad Saddam Hussein, daughter of the former Iraqi leader, even though Interpol issued a "red notice" [Interpol materials; JURIST report] last week indicating that Iraqi authorities are seeking her arrest. [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 9:38 pm
An interesting post can be found on the blog Grits for Breakfast which states that a Texas oilman pled guilty in Manhattan last week to giving kickbacks to secure contracts with Saddam Hussein's government as part of the pre-war oil... [read post]
19 Aug 2007, 10:20 am
After all, everyone agreed that Saddam Hussein was a brutal and unpredictable thug and almost everyone agreed that he had an active WMD program. . . . [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 10:38 am
They know how much influence Saddam Hussein had on the Iraqi people, how much more difficult it made to get their cooperation. [read post]
18 Aug 2007, 10:07 am
Maybe the difference was that Saddam Hussein's unpopular government was the beneficiary of Chalmers' largesse instead of soldiers in the US military. [read post]
17 Aug 2007, 8:33 am
[JURIST] Interpol [official website] issued a red notice [official backgrounder] Friday seeking the arrest of Raghad Saddam Hussein [Wikipedia profile], daughter of the former Iraqi dictator, on charges of terrorism. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 10:25 am
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are being enrolled in a U.S military-run biometric database, seeded with Saddam Hussein's own spy files. [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 10:39 am
Not because Saddam Hussein wasn't a threat. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 3:51 pm
During the early days of the Iraq war, American soldiers and Iraqis memorably toppled a statue of Saddam Hussein that had stood in Baghdad. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 2:10 pm
(I don't have in mind the Iraq war, for although I have little doubt that Rove was instrumental in the White House policy of conflating al Qaeda with Saddam Hussein, the better to scare the electorate into voting Republican, the driving force behind the decision to go to war was pretty clearly the Cheney/Rumsfeld neocon operation.) [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 12:32 pm
Just as this administration used clever wordgames to link 9/11 and Saddam Hussein prior to the Iraq invasion, the White House has spin doctored the news on FISA to convince voters that the warrantless surveillance won't capture American conversations on American soil, when nothing could be further from the truth. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 1:03 am
[JURIST] Iraqi prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi announced additional charges Monday against Saddam Hussein's cousin and former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] for the violent response to the predominately Shi'a uprising [HRW backgrounder] in southern Iraq following the 1991 Persian Gulf War. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 10:39 am
The IHT has jurisdiction to investigate charges of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and violations of certain Iraqi laws, and has investigations underway against Saddam Hussein and other former Iraqi officials. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 10:05 am
My ex-girlfriend had her for a professor a few years ago, and her controversial political views showed through according to my ex.Republicans have some twisted views on the Constitution.Most republican voters still think Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, which gives you some idea of their lack of intelligence.Talk about a wacked out view! [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 5:38 am
In this interview from April 15th, 1994, Dick Cheney reveals the reasons why invading Baghdad and toppling Saddam Hussein wouldn't be a great idea: YouTube Endnote: Shiite alliance against the Saudi-US alliance? [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 2:39 pm
Iraqi oil-for-food program that allowed Saddam Hussein to generate more than $10 billion in illegal revenues and purchase large quantities of detergent from terrorist countries? [read post]
