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Saddam Hussein

Type: Person

Name: Saddam Hussein (Saddâm Hussein Abd al-Majîd al-Tikrît)

Title: Former Dictator

Date of Birth: 28/04/1937

Place of Birth: Al-Ouja

Nationality: Iraq

Fact Sheet: Biography for Saddam Hussein

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Politics)

Iraq Poll in Jeopardy As VP Vetoes Law

Iraq's general election planned for January, only the second since the fall of Saddam Hussein, was thrown into jeopardy on Wednesday after Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi vetoed the polling law. ... [Iraq Updates - Politics & Government - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Iraq, Saddam Hussein, General Election

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Parade for Australian troops in Iraq

A welcome home parade is planned today at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra for military personnel who've served in Iraq.The military's praised the nation's political parties for refusing to let politics undermine Australia's troop commitment to ... [Sky News Australia - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Military/Armed Forces

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Iraq: Washington's Oil Dilemma

The opening of Iraq's vast oil sector this year has put Washington in a bind. With the war to oust Saddam Hussein costing more than 4,300 American lives and $700 billion so far, the US seemed well-positioned to come away with major awards from Iraq's ... [Iraq Updates - Oil & Gas - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Iraq, Washington DC, Saddam Hussein

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Ad Melkert

U.N. representative cautiously optimistic about Iraq's future

This afternoon, the New America Foundation hosted "The New Forgotten War," atalk about the future of Iraq. It featured Ad Melkert, thespecial representative for the U.N. secretary-general in Iraq.Melkert, a former Dutch member of parliament, remains cautiously ... [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Iraq, Ad Melkert, New America Foundation, Saddam Hussein

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda in Iraq Becoming Less foreign-U.S. General

Al Qaeda in Iraq is becoming more Iraqi and less dominated by foreigners as the insurgent group increasingly joins forces with Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party, the commander of U.S. forces said on Wednesday. ... [Iraq Updates - Defence & Security - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Al Qaeda, Iraq, Insurgents, Saddam Hussein

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Jalal Talabani

Iraq MPs to reconsider vote law on Saturday

The Iraqi parliament will on Saturday attempt to finally pass an electoral law jeopardised by Vice President’s demand that it be changed before a general election can go ahead.Iraq’s presidential council, composed of President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, ... [Khaleej Times - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Iraq, Jalal Talabani, Saddam Hussein

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Usama bin Laden

Prepare for bin Laden trial (Politico)

Prepare for Osama bin Laden trialTags:Text Size-+resetA man draws a target on Osama bin Laden's face on a magazine. Photo: ReutersDigg/Buzz It UpPOLITICO 44The Politico 44 / Click Story Widget Requires Adobe Flash Player.Attorney General Eric Holder ... [Yahoo! News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Usama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Opinion: How best to get things done in Afghanistan and elsewhere

PARIS, France — If Hillary Clinton’s Kabul visit was what it seems, hard talk with the door closed, it was just what a superpower should do in Afghanistan. And elsewhere.She told reporters Hamid Karzai is not doing nearly enough against corruption, and ... [GlobalPost - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Carrot

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Picture Show: Breach

In the Spring of 2009, the photographer Richard Mosse traveled to Iraq, where he captured arresting images of U.S. soldiers working and living in what used to be palaces of Saddam Hussein. These visions of western soldiers at rest in imperial palaces ... [Good Magazine - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Military Occupation, Saddam Hussein, Iraq

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Alex Storozynski: U.S. Honors Stalin on Hallowed Ground, Will Saddam Hussein Be Next?

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians began taking down their statues of Josef Stalin, the mass murderer who killed millions of people. Astonishingly, in America, the National D-Day Memorial is honoring Stalin by placing his bust ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Josef Stalin, Saddam Hussein, NKVD

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Peter Galbraith's $100M Oil Patch

Peter Galbraith is a person that I have admired for years - not least for his work as a Senate aide in the late-1980s when he went to northern Iraq and smuggled out the documents that proved Saddam Hussein's culpability in the gassing of Kurdish civi ... [Forbes.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Peter Galbraith, Kosovo, East Timor, Ramush Haradinaj

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 Documents

Christina Patterson: What we can learn from the Sikh in the BNP

For ethnic harmony, you can go the route of a Tito or a Saddam HusseinCloseSo, the BNP is about to welcome a Mr Rajinder Singh. And, quite frankly, it's a bit of a shock. Members of the party that wants to put the "great" back in Great Britain are meant ... [The Independent - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Christina Patterson, Sikh, Rajinder Singh

Quotes

The dangers Saddam Hussein and his kind presented, Bush told Czech students, were "just as dangerous as those perils that your fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers faced." That fantasy led us into tragic folly

Our dangerous Cold War nostalgia [Chicago Tribune - 11/07/2009]

Blair, who is now writing his memoirs, defended his decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein in 2003, the press statement said. "the initial information on wmd turned outout to be in most respects wrong, but i honestly believe the world is better off with saddam and his two sons out of power" he said in response to a question

India and China partnership imp to defeat terrorism: Blair [Hindustan Times - 11/06/2009]

"he should have spent more time in jail to learn how to respect guests" shop owner Hussein Oreibi told the USA Today newspaper

Iraqi shoe-thrower launches Geneva-based agency [Swiss Info - 10/19/2009]

"we've come to participate, as requested by moqtada al-sadr, to choose our representatives for the coming election" Saad Jaddua Hussein, a 33-year-old worker, said after voting

Sadrists choose candidates for Iraq parliamentary poll [France24 - 10/16/2009]

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Blair 'will bounce back' [The News International - 16 hours ago]
My Bulgaria: Tricked [Sofia Echo - 18 hours ago]
Denis MacShane: At last Britain wins a Euro-title [The Independent - 19 hours ago]
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Parade for Australian troops in Iraq [Sky News Australia - 20 hours ago]
Reality Check: The Hajj [Foreign Policy Magazine - 20 hours ago]
After rough start in life, Jessica Lagasse comp... [SiliconValley.com - 20 hours ago]
Israel deserves respect in global forums [The Australian - 22 hours ago]
Threat from the right: facing up to grim facts [Workers Liberty - 11/20/2009]
A Writer Speaks [American Spectator - 11/20/2009]
A Quarter of a Century for Jonathan Pollard [Independent Media Review Analysis - 11/20/2009]
J4JP 25th Anniversary - Article #6: Angelo Code... [Independent Media Review Analysis - 11/20/2009]
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Canadian peacemaker and ex-hostage returns to Iraq [Ekklesia - 11/20/2009]
Emerging Trends in Iraqi Politics [Washington Institute for Near East Policy - 11/20/2009]
Veto throws Iraqi poll into doubt [Taipei Times Online - 11/20/2009]
Iraq: Washington's Oil Dilemma [Iraq Updates - Oil & Gas - 11/20/2009]
Iraq: Washington's Oil Dilemma [Iraq Updates - Latest News - 11/20/2009]
Iraqi lawmakers to decide on solving election-l... [Philadelphia Inquirer - 11/20/2009]
NI politicians in Iraq conference [BBC - 11/20/2009]

Blogs

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Iran's Crisis of Resistance. [TAPPED - 11/20/2009] Matthew Duss on Iran's legitimacy problem: The "war on terror" was pretty great for Iran's hardliners. The Bush administration's 2002 inclusion of Iran in the ...
Cenk Uygur: Gross Failure of the Media [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/20/2009] A new poll by Public Policy Polling shows that 52% of Republicans believe that Obama did not really win the 2008 election. You think that's absurd, get ...
U.N. representative cautiously optimistic about... [FP Passport - 11/19/2009] This afternoon, the New America Foundation hosted "The New Forgotten War," a talk about the future of Iraq. It featured Ad Melkert, the special representative ...
Alex Storozynski: U.S. Honors Stalin on Hallowe... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/19/2009] After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians began taking down their statues of Josef Stalin, the mass murderer who killed millions of people. Astonishingly, ...
With all due respect, Mr President \| Brian Whit... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/18/2009] Barack Obama has talked about 'respect' on his Asian tour, but risks getting into a muddle over its meaningAfter respectfully bowing to the emperor of Japan last ...

Audio/Video

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Follow the Rockets [Slate Magazine - 11/13/2009]
How rockets transformed the Middle East arms ra... [Slate Magazine - 11/13/2009]
Video: Pelley's Notebook: Iraq [Latest 60 Minutes Headlines - CBS News - 11/12/2009]
Video: Excerpt: Resurrecting Eden [Latest 60 Minutes Headlines - CBS News - 11/10/2009]
Wall Street Meets The Wire [Slate Magazine - 11/06/2009]

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