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Saddam TV drama earns rave reviews in Britain
LONDON AFP — A new BBC drama of the life of Saddam Hussein which portrays the late Iraqi leader as a brutish mafia boss reminiscent of the TV gangster Tony Soprano received rave reviews on Thursday. The four-part British-US co-production "House of Saddam" charts Saddam's eventual elevation to bogeyman...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, drama, Saddam, TVs
Research articles 2008-07-31
Tribal Engagement in Anbar Province: the critical role of special operations forces
During a September 2007 visit to Anbar Province in western Iraq, President George W. Bush stated, "Anbar is a huge province. It was once written off as lost. It is now one of the safest places in Iraq." The reason for this stunning turnabout was that Anbaris "who once fought...
Tags: al-Qaeda, Government, Iraq, leader, Saddam, SECURITY, team, U.S.
Research articles 2008-07-01
Iraq to file lawsuits in US over oil-for-food scam
BAGHDAD AFP — Iraq said on Sunday it plans to file lawsuits against a group of companies and individuals in US courts over their alleged role in a United Nations oil-for-food scam under Saddam Hussein's regime. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Baghdad was taking this step to hold all...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, Iraq, lawsuit, Saddam, U.N.
Research articles 2008-06-29
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
Tareq Aziz trial begins at Iraqi High Tribunal
BAGHDAD AFP — The trial begins in Iraq on Tuesday of Tareq Aziz, former deputy premier and the international face of the Saddam Hussein regime, on charges related to the execution of 42 Baghdad merchants in 1992. It is the fourth trial of former regime officials by the Iraqi...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, Iraq, Manufacturing, SADDAM, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-04-28
13 killed in Baghdad as Iraq marks Saddam's fall
BAGHDAD AFP — Fierce clashes and mortar attacks in Baghdad's Shiite bastion of Sadr City killed 13 people on Wednesday as Iraq marked the fifth anniversary of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Iraqi officials said three mortar rounds slammed into Sadr City, the east Baghdad stronghold of anti-US Shiite...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, Government, Iraq, SADDAM
Research articles 2008-04-09
A strategy based on faith: the enduring appeal of progressive American airpower
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Following the F-16 bombing raid in June 2006 that killed terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, President George W. Bush told reporters: "Zarqawi is dead, but the difficult and necessary mission in Iraq continues. We can expect the terrorists and insurgents to carry on without him. We can expect...
Tags: Afghanistan, Air Force, aircraft, America, attack, Baghdad, bomb, Bush, civilian, Clark, Cohen, friction, Gulf, Iraq, Johnson, leader, Leadership, Manufacturing, NATO, North, president, Robert, Saddam, SECURITY, South, strategy, U.S., Vietnamese
Research articles 2008-04-01
U.S. editorial excerpts -3-
NEW YORK, March 24 Kyodo Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: SADDAM'S TERROR LINKS (The Wall Street Journal, New York) Five years on, few Iraq myths are as persistent as the notion that the Bush Administration invented a connection between Saddam Hussein and al...
Tags: Administration, al-Qaeda, Government, Iraq, SADDAM
Research articles 2008-03-31
Saddam’s Files
They show terror plots, but raise new questions about some U.S. claims. President Bush said lots of things about Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the Iraq War. But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an unscripted remark he made at a Texas political fund-raiser on Sept....
Tags: Bush, Games, Government, HARDWARE, Iraq, Pentagon, president, researcher, Saddam, SOFTWARE, U.S.
Research articles 2008-03-31
Kadhafi warns US allies could suffer Saddam's fate
DAMASCUS AFP — Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned Arab allies of the United States that they could meet the same fate as former Iraq president Saddam Hussein, hanged in 2006 three years after the US-led invasion. "A foreign force occupied an Arab country and hanged its president and we...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, leader, Leadership, president, Saddam, summit, U.S.
Research articles 2008-03-29
Did Saddam pay for legislators' trip?
WASHINGTON -- Saddam Hussein's intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq for three U.S. lawmakers during the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. An indictment unsealed in Detroit accuses Muthanna Al-Hanooti, a member of a Michigan nonprofit group, of arranging for three members of...
Tags: FINANCE, Government, Investment, Iraq, MARKETING, Saddam, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2008-03-27
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
Iraq wants to execute Saddam aides together
BAGHDAD AFP — The Iraqi government said on Tuesday it wanted to execute together three former aides of Saddam Hussein, including "Chemical Ali," who face the gallows for a genocidal campaign against Kurds. Ali Hassan al-Majid, widely known as Chemical Ali, was sentenced to death last June for genocide,...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, aide, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Iraq, Leadership, Saddam, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-03-18
No link between Saddam and Al-Qaeda: Pentagon study
WASHINGTON AFP — A detailed Pentagon study confirms there was no direct link between late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the Al-Qaeda network, debunking a claim President George W. Bush's administration used to justify invading Iraq. Coming five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the study...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, Government, INTERNET, Iraq, Pentagon, SADDAM
Research articles 2008-03-13
'Chemical Ali' still in US custody
BAGHDAD AFP — Saddam Hussein's hatchet man Chemical Ali, on death row for genocide over the gassing of tens of thousands of Kurds in the 1980s, is still in US custody, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Iraq's three-member presidency gave its approval on February 27 for Ali Hassan...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Baghdad, Government, Iraq, SADDAM, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2008-03-05
FBI uncovers low-tech, intricate Iraqi spy network
As the U.S. military converged on Baghdad in April 2003, an FBI team of document experts followed closely behind. Their task: to sort through Iraqi intelligence documents for any hint of ongoing terrorist plots against the United States. What the team uncovered...
Tags: agent, Baghdad, Chicago, FBI, Government, Iraq, network, SADDAM, SOFTWARE, U.S.
Research articles 2008-03-03
FBI team in Baghdad uncovered extensive Iraqi spy network in U.S.
As the U.S. military converged on Baghdad in April 2003, an FBI team of document experts followed closely behind. Their task: to sort through Iraqi intelligence documents for any hint of ongoing terrorist plots against the United States. What the team uncovered amid millions of documents...
Tags: agent, Baghdad, FBI, Government, Iraq, network, Saddam, team, U.S.
Research articles 2008-03-03
Giving Iraq new wings: American airmen help rebuild country's shattered Air Force
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eighteen years ago the Air Force did all it could to destroy Saddam Hussein's military. Iraq was the region's military superpower. But by the end of the Gulf War. U.S. airpower had devastated Iraq's military and destroyed most of its highly touted air force of more...
Tags: academy, Air Force, Iraq, SADDAM, team, training
Research articles 2008-03-01
A strategic failure: American information control policy in occupied Iraq
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION of Germany (1945-1949) stands as a model exercise in democratization by force. In fact, top figures in the Bush administration, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, have compared the American experiences in postwar Germany and postwar Iraq....
Tags: Germany, Iraq, MARKETING, NETWORKING, Pentagon, SADDAM, satellite, TVs, U.S.
Research articles 2008-03-01
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