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Saddam Hussein stories: 62 news summaries

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 Beck's Latest Rant: 
 Obama Like 
 Hussein, 
 Hitler 

Host isn't suggesting Americorps plan makes him a fascist, but...

Aug 28, 09 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck may have reached a new low last night when he implied President Obama’s plans to use AmeriCorps make him the equivalent of a fascist dictator, Gawker reports. One guest, Vets for Freedom vice chairman David Bellavia, fanned the flames by saying, “I’m not comparing my... More »

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Saddam Hussein • television • Barack Obama • Adolf Hitler • Fox News • Glenn Beck • right wingers • right-wing media • Obama administration • President Obama • AmeriCorps • David Bellavia • Vets for Freedom

Missing Picasso Found in Iraq?! Probably Not.

The Naked Woman likely not missing, nor
a Picasso, say experts

Aug 27, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • art museum • war • Kuwait • The Louvre • Pablo Picasso • art heist • forgery • invasion

 Iraq Bans School Trips 
 to Saddam's Grave 

Group visits banned after schoolgirls filmed singing Saddam's praises

Jul 8, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraq has banned school groups and all other organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave after video emerged of a group of schoolgirls singing his praises, the BBC reports. The executed dictator is buried in his home village near Tikrit, and the site is still a place of pilgrimage for loyalists.... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Tikrit • Baathists

(Newser) - Joe Biden presided over a huge naturalization ceremony in Baghdad today, CNN reports, as 237 US service members became American citizens. “We did it in Saddam’s palace,” Biden said, “and I can think of nothing better. That SOB is rolling over in his grave right now.... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Joe Biden • nationalization

Saddam's FBI Interviews Released

Says WMD fiction was aimed at Iran; he wanted pact with US

Jul 2, 09 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Transcripts of Saddam Hussein's two dozen interviews with the FBI before his execution were released yesterday, after details were published last week by the New York Daily News, which obtained them through the Freedom of Information Act. Some details are still redacted, but the FBI says no "enhanced" techniques... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Saddam Hussein • FBI • weapons of mass destruction • Iraq war

Saddam Feared Iran, Would
Have Asked Bush for Help

Also said he never met 'zealot' bin Laden

Jun 24, 09 7:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saddam Hussein feared Iran more than the US and once considered cutting a deal with George W. Bush, the Daily News reports. In newly declassified interrogations from 2004, Saddam said that if Iran threatened to attack, he "would have sought a security agreement with the US," says the... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Saddam Hussein • FBI • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda

 Cheney: OK, OK, 
 Saddam Wasn't 
 Behind 9/11 

Former VP stands by decision to invade Iraq

Jun 2, 09 2:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney has finally acknowledged, despite previous claims to the contrary, that Saddam Hussein did not collaborate with al-Qaeda to launch the 9/11 attacks. CIA information on such a collaboration "turned out not to be true," he conceded in remarks before the National Press Club,... More »

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Saddam Hussein • Dick Cheney • terrorism • September 11 • Iraq war

(Newser) - Despite entreaties from Washington, Iraq’s majority-Shiite government is hardening its stance against the outlawed Sunni-dominated Baath party, the New York Times reports. Blamed by some for recent bombings of Shiites, Baathists are “filled with hate from head to toe," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week,... More »

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Saddam Hussein • Nouri al-Maliki • United States • Iraq Civil War • Baath Party • reconciliation

 Honeymooning? 
 Stay at Hotel Saddam 

Dictator's digs becoming luxury hotel with a Saddam suite for honeymooners

Apr 21, 09 7:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of Saddam Hussein's massive palaces is set to be converted into a world-class hotel, reports the New York Daily News, with crack Iraqi tourism officials eying the former dictator's sumptuous bedroom as the honeymoon suite. While the novelty might appeal to some, not everybody's convinced. More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • hotel • honeymoon

 Top Saddam Aides 
 Get 15 Years 
 for Killings 

'Down with the occupiers,' his half-bro shouts as sentence is read

Mar 11, 09 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saddam Hussein’s ex-foreign minister, Tariq Aziz, and his cousin “Chemical Ali” al-Majid were both sentenced today to 15 years in prison for their involvement in the 1992 execution of 42 Baghdad merchants. The pair was among eight defendants, and only one—then governor of Iraq’s central bank—... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Baghdad • prison • execution • Chemical Ali • trial • Tariq Aziz

(Newser) - Saddam Hussein didn't have weapons of mass destruction, but America made such a strong case that even the Iraqi leader himself had doubts, the Washington Post reports. Saddam, apparently in awe of US intelligence, asked his top commanders if the nation had stashes even he didn't know about. So says... More »

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Saddam Hussein • Russia • CIA • Vladimir Putin • Colin Powell • weapons of mass destruction • Iraq war • invasion • Charles Duelfer

 Iraq Artist 
 With Sole 
 Honors Bush 
 Shoe Hurler 

Incident 'source of pride,' says sculptor

Jan 30, 09 3:12 AM CST
(Newser) - A copper sculpture of a shoe with a bush growing from it has been unveiled in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit to honor the journalist who hurled his shoes at President Bush. TV reporter Muntadar al-Zeidi missed, but his action hit it off with some Iraqis. Artist Laith al-Amari insists... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • shoes • Tikrit • George W. Bush • Muntadar al-Zaidi • Laith al-Amari

 Rice Regrets 
 Bad Iraq Intel, 
 But Not Invasion 

Former State chief also denies that race clouded Bush Katrina response

Jan 29, 09 3:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Condoleezza Rice appeared on The View today to defend Bush administration policies, and lament a few key mistakes, the Los Angeles Times reports. Rice expressed regret that weapons of mass destruction never surfaced in Iraq—but stands behind the ouster of Saddam Hussein. Rice also said Hurricane Katrina was “... More »

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Bush administration • Saddam Hussein • Hurricane Katrina • The View • Condoleezza Rice • secretary of State • WMD • weapons of mass destruction • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Raising Saddam's Specter, Maliki Aims to Solidify Power

Maliki looks to increase party's power even as some see Saddam-like authority grabs

Jan 26, 09 9:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki is looking to extend his reach with party gains on the provincial level in elections Saturday, the New York Times reports. But despite his assurances that “the iron centralization has ended,” many Iraqis fear a return to rule by a single leader with power... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Nouri al-Maliki • power • exile • centralization

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 Cleric Journeys From 
 al-Qaeda to US Ally 

Sunni leader gives up on 'bankrupt' insurgency

Jan 13, 09 11:10 AM CST
(Newser) - A young man who holds sway over one Iraqi town embodies the country’s transition from dictatorship through insurgency to today’s “murkier contest,” the Washington Post reports. Sunni cleric Nadhim Khalil often slammed Saddam Hussein’s government when it was in power. But when it fell, he... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Sunni • cleric • al-Qaeda in Iraq • insurgency • Sons of Iraq

 Former Iraqi PM: 
 Bush an 'Utter Failure' 

Allawi had been appointed by US after Saddam's fall

Jan 3, 09 4:20 PM CST
(Newser) - The Iraqi prime minister installed by Washington after the fall of Saddam Hussein has blasted President Bush’s policies as an “utter failure,” Reuters reports. In an interview with an Arab newspaper, Iyad Allawi said Bush’s “insistence on names like ‘democracy’ and ‘open elections,... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • sectarian violence • Nouri al-Maliki • democracy • Iyad Allawi • free elections • George W. Bush

 Iraq Prepares 
 Grim Saddam 
 Museum 

Anniversary of leader's execution commemorated

Dec 30, 08 1:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Two years ago today Saddam Hussein breathed his last, but Iraq is taking steps to ensure the dictator isn't forgotten, reports Reuters. Soon, the country will open a dark museum full of artifacts from Saddam’s reign, including the torture devices he employed, the chair he was tried in, and... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • torture • museum • execution

 Iraq Officials Busted 
 in Coup Plot 

Generals, old regime members arrested in Ministry of Interior sweep

Dec 18, 08 3:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Iraq has arrested up to 35 Ministry of the Interior officials over the last three days for their part in a plot to revive Saddam Hussein's Baath party, the New York Times reports. Some being held were in the early stages of planning a coup, say officials. Four generals were... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Nouri al-Maliki • Iraq government • Baathists • Baath Party • Iraq Army • coup d'etat

 Cheney: I OK'd Waterboarding 

VP gave go ahead for 'remarkably successful' tactic

Dec 16, 08 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Vice President Dick Cheney personally approved using waterboarding to interrogate 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he reveals in a wide-ranging interview on ABC News. "I was  involved in helping get the process cleared. The agency came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn't do," said... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Dick Cheney • torture • Karl Rove • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • interrogation • WMD • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • weapons of mass destruction • George W. Bush

 'Chemical Ali' 
 Gets 2nd 
 Death 
 Sentence 

Saddam cousin convicted of massacre of Shia Muslims

Dec 2, 08 7:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Ali Hassan al-Majid, the cousin of Saddam Hussein dubbed "Chemical Ali," has again been sentenced to death by an Iraqi court, reports the Guardian. The former defense chief was convicted today of orchestrating a mass killing of Shia Muslims during a revolt after the first Gulf War... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • war crimes • Chemical Ali • Ali Hassan al Majid • massacre • Gulf War

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