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15 Mar 2007, 8:44 am
[JURIST] The appeals chamber of the Iraqi High Tribunal (IHT) [official website] on Thursday upheld the death penalty for former Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive], rejecting his appeal [DOC text; JURIST report] of the sentence handed down in the Saddam Hussein Dujail crimes against humanity trial. [read post]
14 Mar 2007, 2:42 pm
Here's the basics: The government of Iraq, which was heavily criticised internationally for the way it executed Saddam Hussein, wants to abolish the death penalty, its human rights minister said on Wednesday. [read post]
14 Mar 2007, 3:10 am
Ramadan was convicted [JURIST report; BBC verdict summary] by the IHT alongside Saddam Hussein in November [read post]
11 Mar 2007, 9:14 am
[JURIST] The Iraqi judge responsible for sentencing Saddam Hussein [JURIST news archive] to death is not seeking political asylum in Great Britain, according to the Iraqi High Tribunal [official website] Sunday. [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 4:55 pm
CLINTON LIED, PEOPLE DIED: Over at AlterNet, a lefty critique of Hillary Clinton on the war: Hillary Clinton knew years before she voted for the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein didn't have WMDs -- Bill Clinton lied about Iraq's weapons programs to justify attacking the country in 1998. . . . [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]
1 Mar 2007, 4:15 am
The inmates at the Communications Management prison unit are far from all being hardened terrorists, including Rafil Dhafir, who is an Iraqi-born physician serving a two-decade sentence for charity fraud and violation of economic sanctions against Saddam Hussein's government. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 12:09 am
Even while we're battling a mostly Sunni insurgency in Iraq, and after having eliminated the most effective bulwark against Iran (Saddam Hussein), we're confronting Iran in a broader war between Sunnis and Shiites. [read post]
24 Feb 2007, 9:00 pm
Then again, maybe North Korea's very possession of nuclear weapons made the United States more willing to spend time negotiating than was the situation with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which had no nuclear weapons when Gulf War II started. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 11:13 am
Senate Democrats have turned their attention to legislation that takes a more direct approach: Key lawmakers, backed by party leaders, are drafting legislation that would effectively revoke the broad authority granted to the president in the days Saddam Hussein was in power, and leave U.S. troops with a limited mission as they prepare to withdraw. [read post]
23 Feb 2007, 8:31 am
A couple of blogs (link, link) are beating up on Tom Friedman for this: If Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney had spent as much time plotting the toppling of Saddam Hussein as they did the toppling of Colin Powell, Iraq today would be Switzerland. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 8:31 pm
[JURIST] A US federal judge Thursday sentenced former South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park [personal website; Washington Post profile] to five years in prison for his conviction on charges [JURIST reports] of money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and acting as an unregistered agent of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 6:27 am
(Bainbridge is an old Bedford or Amherst County man himself, I believe - maybe he needs to weigh in on these issues more directly.)The Washington Times wonders here why William & Mary President Nichols allowed a sex worker art exhibit, since that would probably make more people uncomfortable than the display of a cross in a chapel.The Fredericksburg paper has this update on the McMissile mom, still behind bars, now because of an out-of-state warrant.The Instapundit says we need to be killing… [read post]
20 Feb 2007, 4:18 am
We don't involve a lot of 22-year-old kids in this dispute between George Bush and Saddam Hussein. [read post]
17 Feb 2007, 1:15 pm
On the other hand, by lumping the two together -- al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein -- it's also possible that we will have incentivized Saddam Hussein now as a last-ditch defense to do what we wouldn't have done before, which is, "Go find me the nearest members of al Qaeda. [read post]
17 Feb 2007, 8:19 am
He wants to "get our troops out of the Green Zone" because "they are living in Saddam Hussein's palace"; could he be unaware that the zone's primary occupants are the Iraqi government and the U.S. [read post]
15 Feb 2007, 8:01 am
This allegation prompted Senator Levin to exclaim: "We went to war based on the argument of the administration . . . that there was a link between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein and that Saddam Hussein could give al-Qaida and other terrorist groups weapons. [read post]
14 Feb 2007, 7:50 am
[JURIST] The UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) [official website] confirmed Tuesday that it had begun an investigation into whether UK firms paid illegal kickbacks to the Saddam Hussein regime in the now-defunct UN Oil-for-Food program [JURIST news archive], through which Hussein allegedly embezzled as much as $1.8 billion. [read post]
11 Feb 2007, 6:18 pm
Refused Classification reports that on Friday the Classification Board banned the mobile phone footage of Saddam Hussein's hanging. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 9:13 am
(or quasi-U.S.) custody in Iraq (for one prominent example, take Judge Kollar-Kotelly's denial of Saddam Hussein's last-minute application for a stay in December, the rationale for which today's opinion calls into serious question). [read post]
