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Saddam Hussein stories: 62 news summaries

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Maliki's Power Grabs Stir Fears of 'Shiite Saddam'

US security deal may strengthen central government; some see 'benevolent Shiite Saddam'

Nov 24, 08 10:18 AM CST
(Newser) - Ratification this week of a deal that would put an expiration date on the US deployment in Iraq stands to boost the prestige of PM Nouri al-Maliki, who in recent months has consolidated his power in moves that echo previous authoritarian regimes. As one Western observer tells the Los Angeles ... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Sunni • Shiite • Nouri al-Maliki • Iraq security • Iraq war

(Newser) - Saddam Hussein’s body was mutilated after his execution, says a guard present at his internment. “There were six stab wounds on his body,” two of them to his back, the Iraqi told the London Times. The guard said 300 people witnessed the desecrated body, but Iraqi officials... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • corpse • execution • burial • mutilation

Marines Try to Wean Iraq From US Pocketbook

Saddam-era budget network can't provide to expanded security forces

Oct 9, 08 1:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Iraq becomes safer, the Marines have focused on the next challenge: weaning the country’s security forces off US financial and logistical support, USA Today reports. To spur the independence of the nascent Iraqi police, the Marines now refuse to refuel their vehicles, and it's gotten the Iraqis' attention.... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Iraq oil • budget • US troops • Iraq police • Marine • Iraq war

CBS Reporter Under Scrutiny for Iraq Booty

US Customs looks
into Logan's swiped Hussein portraits

Oct 3, 08 11:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - CBS chief correspondent and tabloid catnip Lara Logan has two portraits of Saddam Hussein in her office, and US Customs wants to know why. The art was recovered from the wreckage of a Baghdad palace, and it's illegal to take such items out of Iraq. Customs prosecuted a Fox News... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • CBS • Baghdad • Immigration and Customs Enforcement • Iraq war • Lara Logan • Broadcasting & Cable

Saddam's Palace Is Tourist Hotspot for US Troops

Ruins are all the sightseeing most get to do

Aug 4, 08 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s impractical—not to mention dangerous—for US troops to do much sightseeing in Baghdad, but Saddam Hussein’s ruined presidential complex is one exception. As one of the few places off-duty service members can go, the palace has become a magnet for military tourists, the Wall Street Journal... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Baghdad • tourism • US troops

US Removes Last of Saddam's Uranium From Iraq

US completes months-long mission to secure material

Jul 6, 08 9:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A secret US mission to remove 550 metric tons of concentrated uranium known as “yellowcake” from Iraq came to a close yesterday as the material arrived in Canada, AP reports. In an operation that quelled concerns over the yellowcake falling into insurgency hands, 37 flights took the remainder of... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Canada • nuclear weapons • uranium

Cigar Woes Snare Another Politician

London mayor under investigation for case grabbed in Iraq in '03

Jun 24, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - London's mayor found out yesterday that he is “the one and only Western politician to be brought to justice for crimes committed in Iraq.” Boris Johnson's misdeed? Taking a cigar case as a souvenir from the smashed villa of Iraq’s former deputy prime minister while on assignment... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Tony Blair • war crimes • England • justice • Britain • Tariq Aziz

 Post-Saddam,
 Bodybuilders
 Let 'Er Ripple 

Pumping iron is hugely popular among Iraqis, despite dangers

Jun 10, 08 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi bodybuilders have long needed nerves of steel to pump iron. Under Saddam, only officially connected Iraqis could join gyms, and the average weightlifter was forced to use makeshift equipment. But after Saddam, a flood of Iraqis seeking lucrative security jobs hit the gyms. The result? Extremists began targeting bulging... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • steroids • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Sylvester Stallone • bodybuilder • weight lifting • bodybuilding

Bush, Advisers Misled US
on Iraq: Senate Report

Dem-led committee blasts administration; Republicans dismiss 'partisan exercise'

Jun 5, 08 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Bush administration distorted facts in justifying the invasion of Iraq and overstated Saddam Hussein’s links to al-Qaeda, a long-delayed report from the Senate intelligence committee concludes. Bush and his advisers also ignored doubts about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction in constructing their case for military... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • Saddam Hussein • September 11 • Senate Intelligence Committee • US intelligence • WMD • John D. Rockefeller • weapons of mass destruction • al-Qaeda • Iraq war

Saddam Feared AIDS During Captivity

Prison diary reveals horror of 'young people's diseases'

May 6, 08 12:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Saddam Hussein worried about catching AIDS and other venereal diseases during his US captivity, the Daily Mail reports. He even told guards not to dry their clothes on his laundry line. "I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people's diseases," Saddam wrote... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • AIDS • prison • disease • captivity

Saddam Aide Begins Trial
in Baghdad

Former top diplomat Aziz faces death for executing merchants

Apr 29, 08 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - The trial of Saddam Hussein’s former deputy prime minister began today in Baghdad, the New York Times reports. Tariq Aziz could get the death penalty for ordering the 1992 execution of more than 40 Iraqi merchants accused of price-gouging. The judge, however, has adjourned until May 20 because of... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • war crimes • execution • Chemical Ali • Ali Hassan al Majid • Tariq Aziz

 Sadr Threatens to End Truce 

Mahdi Army leader, 'worried' for Iraqis' safety, cancels anti-US protest

Apr 8, 08 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr today threatened to end the cease-fire he imposed last year on his Mahdi militia, CNN reports, and called off a massive protest set for tomorrow, the fifth anniversary of the end of Saddam Hussein’s rule. Hundreds had converged on Baghdad—despite orders to keep young... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Sunni • Sadr City • Mahdi Army • Nouri al-Maliki • US military • Shia • Iraq Civil War • Sadrists • Muqtada al-Sadr

 Saddam's Last Days Revealed 

CNN tours the former dictator's US detention cell

Mar 27, 08 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The dictator who ruled with a murderous fist spent his time writing in his journal and tending to a small garden his captors allowed him in the prison courtyard. And on his execution day, the man known as "Vic" told guards to tell his daughter he was going to... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • execution • US military • dictatorship • Baath Party • Iraq war

Saddam Paid
for Lawmakers' Trip to Iraq

Three congressmen unaware he financed visit in 2002

Mar 26, 08 8:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saddam Hussein secretly paid for a trip made by three congressmen to Iraq in 2002  just ahead of the US invasion, the AP reports. The congressmen, all of whom opposed the war, did not know Saddam financed the trip because he funneled the money through a nonprofit group in Michigan.... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Jim McDermott • congressional Democrats • Iraq war • David Bonior • Mike Thompson

Security Comes to Fallujah With Saddam-Like Iron Fist

US hails progress, but top cop relies on brutal tactics, says democracy not for Iraq

Mar 24, 08 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fallujah, a hotbed of violence that has shown signs of stability, is trumpeted by the US as a success story of the Iraq war effort. But the security achieved there, largely the work of Faial Ismail al-Zobaie, the city’s police chief and a former insurgent, is the result of... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • troop surge • democracy • US military • Fallujah • Iraq war • security forces • al-Qaeda in Iraq • Faisal Ismail al-Zobaie

Saddam's Files Provide No 'Smoking Gun'

Iraqi docs cast doubt
on al-Qaeda link and Bush, Sr. murder plot

Mar 23, 08 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Pentagon has rifled through 600,000 pages of Iraqi intelligence docs and found no sign of:
  • a plot to kill George Bush, Sr. in 1993.
  • a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda link.
  • a connection between Baghdad and Abdul Rahman Yasin, an alleged Sept. 11 plotter.
In fact,... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Pentagon • George HW Bush • George W. Bush • Iraqi Intelligence Service

Information Age an Uneasy Time in Baghdad

City residents free to surf the Web but scared to leave their homes

Mar 19, 08 9:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - The electronics business is booming in Baghdad five years after the US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, the LA Times reports. Repressive controls on foreign TV and Internet access are gone and shoppers are free to buy DVDs of the latest Hollywood movies—but too often, they are investing in... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • sectarian violence • Baghdad • Internet access • religious violence

 Bush Sees Success as
 Iraq War Turns 5 

Bush says the war must be won

Mar 19, 08 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the fifth anniversary of launching the shock-and-awe assault that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, President Bush will make a major speech at the Pentagon today, CNN reports. In excerpts from the speech he acknowledges that "the fight in Iraq was faltering," but praises the progress in... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Baghdad • surge • al-Qaeda • Iraq war • Joseph Stiglitz • George W. Bush • invasion • Council of Economic Advisers

Saddam Had No Links to Al-Qaeda: Pentagon Study

Iraq invasion justification again called into question

Mar 11, 08 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Pentagon-sponsored study of captured Iraqi intelligence archives has been unable to find a single operational link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden or his al-Qaeda network, reports the McClatchy newspapers. The study will be released this week and is expected to refuel debate over the US justification for... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • Barack Obama • John McCain • Donald Rumsfeld • Hamas • State Department • Osama bin Laden • Colin Powell • Islamic Jihad • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine • al-Qaeda • Institute for Defense Analyses • U.S. Joint Forces Command • Abu Nidal

Iranian Prez Arrives in Iraq

Ahmadinejad visit deepens ties with neighbor

Mar 2, 08 8:23 AM CST
(Newser) - In an historic visit, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Iraq today predicting “a new chapter” for relations between the two countries, despite a tense history and a feud with Baghdad’s American allies. Ahmadinejad, who won’t be protected by US forces during his two-day trip, met... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Saddam Hussein • Shiite • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Nouri al-Maliki • United States • Sunnis • Jalal Talabani • Iraq war • Iran war

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