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Suriname ex-dictator was present for political killings: witnesses
PARAMARIBO AFP — Witnesses told a court martial Friday that Suriname's ex-dictator Desi Bouterse was present at the killings of 15 political opponents more than two decades ago. The first witnesses to testify before the court martial against Bouterse and 24 other suspects on charges of the killings at...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, Leadership, witness
Research articles 2008-07-04
Court delays hearing on Saddam super-yacht
NICE, France AFP — A French court on Monday postponed until November a hearing to decide who now owns a super-yacht built for the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The 82-metre (270-feet) Ocean Breeze, equipped with several swimming pools, a mosque, a missile-launcher and mini-submarine, has been impounded among...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, INTERNET
Research articles 2008-06-23
Saddam journal reveals prison AIDS fear
DUBAI AFP — Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator hanged in 2006 for crimes against humanity, feared he would pick up sexual diseases while he was in US custody, according to extracts from prison writings published in an Arab newspaper. Saddam said he asked his prison guards not to...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, Government, Manufacturing, Saddam
Research articles 2008-05-06
Iraq lawyer to publish first volume of book on Saddam's life
AMMAN AFP — The first of a three-volume book on Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's life from childhood to the day of his execution is to be published later this year, Iraqi lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi said on Tuesday. Dulaimi told AFP he has been working "day and night to compile...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, dictator, leader, Leadership, Saddam
Research articles 2008-05-06
At Saddam's tomb, loyalists mourn their lost leader
AWJA, Iraq AFP — Nostalgic supporters of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein voiced regret on Thursday over the US-led war that ousted their hero and said they feel victimised by Iraq's new Shiite regime. Five years to the day after US warplanes dropped the first bombs on Baghdad marking...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, dictator, Iraq, leader, Saddam, SECURITY
Research articles 2008-03-20
France upholds freeze on sale of Saddam super-yacht
NICE, France AFP — A French court refused Wednesday to lift a freeze on the sale of a super-yacht built for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, that was impounded on the Riviera in a tug-of-war over its ownership. Docked among the millionaires' yachts in a harbour near Nice since...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, INTERNET
Research articles 2008-03-05
Suharto corruption case postponed as Indonesia mourns
JAKARTA AFP — An Indonesian court Tuesday postponed hearings in a civil corruption case against late former president Suharto in observance of the official seven-day mourning period declared after his death. The government is seeking 1.4 billion dollars in returned assets and damages from Suharto, who died aged 86...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, Government, Indonesia, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-01-28
Saddam's scrawl to be dropped from Iraqi flag
BAGHDAD AFP — Saddam Hussein's handwritten praise to God will be dropped from the Iraqi flag and the symbolism behind its three green stars will be changed, according to a bill presented to parliament on Saturday. The Iraqi flag still bears the ousted dictator's handwritten Allahu Akhbar" (God is...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, dictator, praise, Saddam, unity
Research articles 2008-01-12
Palestinians remember Saddam year after hanging
HALHUL, West Bank AFP — Some 700 Palestinians observed a minute's silence on Monday as they marked the first anniversary of the hanging of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The demonstration in this southern town in the occupied West Bank opened with the silent tribute for the former Iraqi...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, bank, dictator, SADDAM
Research articles 2007-12-31
Iraqi Sunnis honour Saddam one year after his hanging
AWJA, Iraq AFP — Saddam Hussein loyalists gathered at the ousted dictator's graveside on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of his execution, as former opponents expressed joy over the end of his rule. Dozens of Sunni Arab tribal leaders, clerics and students stood at Saddam's burial site in...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, dictator, Government, Iraq, leader, Leadership, president, SADDAM
Research articles 2007-12-30
Iraqi Sunnis honour Saddam one year after his hanging
AWJA, Iraq AFP — Saddam Hussein loyalists gathered at the ousted dictator's graveside on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of his execution, with security tight in the regions of Iraq where he drew his most fervent support. Dozens of Sunni Arab tribal leaders, clerics and students stood at...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, dictator, Government, Iraq, leader, Leadership, president, SADDAM
Research articles 2007-12-29
The past is the dream of Sunnis in tiny Baghdad enclave
BAGHDAD AFP — When he introduces himself, the young man in military fatigues and black leather jacket instinctively pulls out his ID card, ready for the inevitable incredulity. "My name is Saddam Hussein," he says proudly, flashing the card to prove his claim. In Fadel, a Sunni Muslim...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Baghdad, dictator, Manufacturing, SECURITY
Research articles 2007-12-21
Yacht built for Saddam on sale for 23.5 million euros: report
NICE, France AFP — A super-yacht built for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is awaiting a buyer in the port of Nice, with an asking price of 23.5 million euros, according to a specialist website. The 82-metre (270-feet) Ocean Breeze, built in 1981 by Danish shipyard Helsingor Vaerft, started...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, INTERNET
Research articles 2007-12-15
Republican hopefuls get tough with Chavez, Cuba
MIAMI AFP — Republican presidential hopefuls on Sunday called Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a dictator and vowed to maintain the US embargo against Cuba, in a debate on Univision Spanish language television. "I ... would like to echo the words of King Juan Carlos, 'Por que no te callas?'...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Cuba, dictator, embargo, Leadership, president, Republican
Research articles 2007-12-09
Somali president appoints new PM
MOGADISHU AFP — Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Thursday named a veteran law-enforcement and aid official as his new prime minister and tasked him with steering the insurgency-wracked nation back to stability. Yusuf named Nur Hassan Hussein, 69, who has served as the Somali Red Crescent Society SRCS...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, Government, officer, president, SOFTWARE, Somalia
Research articles 2007-11-22
Saddam, the tearful dictator with a mania for baby wipes
WASHINGTON AFP — Saddam Hussein was unrepentant about slaughtering thousands of his own people, but the captured Iraqi dictator grew tearful when his FBI interrogator bade him farewell, according to a new book. In "The Terrorist Watch" by award-winning Washington journalist Ronald Kessler, published Tuesday, George Piro describes how...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, agent, dictator, FBI, Government, Saddam, Washington
Research articles 2007-11-14
Charges dropped against Pinochet widow, children
SANTIAGO AFP — A Chilean appeals court on Friday dropped embezzlement charges against the widow of the country's late dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, and most of their children. Fifth Appeals Court chief justice Juan Eduardo Fuentes said the panel dropped the charges lodged on October 4 against the widow,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, FINANCE, financial, Pinochet
Research articles 2007-10-26
Ahmadinejad: Iran Doesn't Have Tyrannical Dictators.
By Kevin Ray Humor After a controversial speech at Columbia University in which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad now famously said, "Iran doesn't have homosexuals. We do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who has told you that we have it but they are...
Tags: Columbia University, dictator, Iran
Research articles 2007-10-18
Che Guevara was hunted by Latin American dictators: documents
VALLEGRANDE, Bolivia AFP — Latin American dictators of the 1960s coordinated efforts in their attempt to track down Cuban-Argentine Marxist guerrilla Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, killed by Bolivian forces in 1967, according to previously secret documents a researcher showed AFP. The cooperation pre-dates Operation Condor, the secret plan hatched by...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Bolivia, dictator, Leadership
Research articles 2007-10-07
Chilean judge orders arrest of Pinochet's widow, five children
SANTIAGO AFP — Chilean authorities on Thursday arrested the five children of former dictator Augusto Pinochet and ordered the detention of his widow for their role in the alleged embezzlement of millions of dollars stashed in US accounts. "There are well-founded assumptions ... that these people participated in this...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, dictator, lawyer
Research articles 2007-10-04
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