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A small Connecticut-based company Herobuilders, has produced a mail-order doll of late Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's final minutes at the gallows. Despite having received a death threat on Thursday, Herobuilder's founder and owner, Emilio Vicale told Adnkronos International (AKI) he does not regret creating the doll or feel it is inappropriate. "What about Saddam's gassing of thousands of people - was that in good taste?" he asked, referring to Saddam's alleged responsibility for the gassing of 5,000 Kurds and poisoning of thousands more.

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A judge trying Saddam Hussein for the killing of 148 Shi'ite villagers in the 1980s will set a date on Monday for a verdict in a case that carries the maximum penalty of death by hanging, court officials said. A year after the case opened in a U.S.-backed courtroom in Baghdad, chief judge Raouf Abdel Rahman will hold a closed session to review witness testimonies and evidence and announce a final date for a verdict for former Iraqi president Saddam and seven of his top lieutenants for crimes against humanity. "The judge needs to review procedural and administrative issues and...

As part of our Guest Essay series, I asked Joseph Shahda to write for us on the topic of translating Sadaam Hussien's captured documents. Mr. Shahda, who goes by the screen name "jveritas" on FreeRepublic.com, has had a article written about him in the Boston Globe: ( http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/03/18/us_puts_iraqi_documents_on_the_web/ ) "Joseph Shahda earns his living as an engineer. But in his spare time, he's an intelligence agent, working to ferret out the truth about the regime of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When the US government on Thursday began publishing captured Iraqi government documents on the Internet, Shahda eagerly began to...

Judges postponed their verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial Tuesday, a long-awaited decision that once held out the hope of healing Iraq's wounds but now threatens to spark even more sectarian violence. The verdict had been expected on Oct. 16 but was delayed until at least the end of the month while judges take extra time to review the evidence and make sure their case is airtight. But no matter how well crafted, the verdict could worsen violence that is already claiming dozens of lives daily. A death sentence for the former leader could enrage his Sunni Muslim supporters, while anything...

Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s sons, Qusay and Uday Hussein, are killed after a three-hour firefight with U.S. forces in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. It is widely believed that the two men were even more cruel and ruthless than their notorious father, and their death was celebrated among many Iraqis. Uday and Qusay were 39 and 37 years old, respectively, when they died. Both are said to have amassed considerable fortunes through their participation in illegal oil smuggling.

Attorneys for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby attacked plans by prosecutors in the CIA leak case to submit a New York Times op-ed containing handwritten notes by Vice President Dick Cheney. In a court filing late Friday night, Libby’s lawyers argued that their client testified before the grand jury that he did not see this document until it was shown to him by the FBI in November 2003. The op-ed article by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, which was published July 6, 2003, argued that the Bush administration “twisted” intelligence “to exaggerate the Iraqi threat” in the run-up to a U.S.-led invasion....

NEW HAVEN — Federal customs agents seized a Mercedes-Benz on Thursday from an Army reservist who said the armor-plated, bulletproof luxury car likely belonged to Saddam Hussein. First Sgt. William von Zehle said he bought the car while serving in Iraq. U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement agents said the car, which was also equipped with loudspeakers and hidden microphones, was being treated as a "possible war trophy." "It belonged to the former Iraqi regime," ICE spokesman Dean Boyd said. He said investigators were unsure whether the former Iraqi dictator actually owned it. Von Zehle, of Ridgefield, was quoted in news...

sadam told judges Wednesday that he ordered the trials of Shiites who eventually were executed in the 1980s and said their lands should be confiscated, but he insisted that those actions were not criminal.

AMMAN, Jordan -- In a letter to an old friend, Saddam Hussein vowed to sacrifice himself for the cause of Palestine and Iraq.

The regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad received $3 billion from illegal oil and arms deals with the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. The House International Relations Committee released documents outlining the huge profits accumulated by Syria in serving as a way station for illegal Iraqi oil exports and arms imports. The documents, supplied by the Internal Revenue Service, pointed to revenues earned by then-Syrian Defense Minister Moustapha Tlas for enabling weapons sales to Iraq in the years that led up to the U.S.-led war against Baghdad in 2003. At a House hearing on July 27, officials warned that...

When Senator Norm Coleman (R., Minn.) last year compared the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal to “an onion,” he had just one thing wrong: The more you peel, the bigger it gets. The latest insights into this cosmos of U.N.-fostered corruption come by way of a bipartisan report just released by the Senate Permanent Subcomittee on Investigations, or PSI, led by Coleman. In detail, with supporting documentation, the report shows how Saddam Hussein, via Oil-for-Food, gave rights to buy millions of barrels of underpriced Iraqi oil to two politicians who supported his regime: former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and British...

34 Ba'ath Party loyalists now form command structure of Iraq insurgency Janurary 24th, 2005 http://www.geostrategy-direct.com BAGHDAD — The U.S. military has determined that 34 senior officials in the former Saddam Hussein regime have formed a command of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. In December 2004 the U.S. military revised its assessment of the Sunni insurgency command. The revisions resulted from the U.S. invasion in Fallujah in November, during which troops discovered documents in insurgency strongholds that identified leaders of the exiled Saddam movement. The information from Fallujah bolstered the belief that Saddam operatives, rather than Islamic volunteers, were responsible for...

Saddam Hussein is spending his time in solitary confinement writing poetry, gardening, reading the Qur'an and snacking on American muffins and cookies. One of his poems is about his arch-enemy George Bush. The intriguing glimpse of the former dictator's daily routine as he awaits trial on charges of war crimes and genocide was given to the Guardian yesterday by Iraq's human rights minister, Bakhtiar Amin, who visited Saddam in detention on Saturday. Mr Amin, a longtime Iraqi human rights campaigner who had family members killed by the former regime, said he could not bring himself to speak to Saddam but...

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A detailed analysis of Saddam Hussein's secret money-laundering techniques shows here for the first time how he used the same offshore money launderers as Osama bin Laden. That covert money network, based in the tax havens of Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Panama and Nassau, helped bankroll the war machines of both Iraq and al-Qaeda. More than 1,000 pages of confidential corporate, bank and legal documents show how the network functioned. The papers come from court cases filed in several European countries, from corporate records, from investigations by Italian police, from a report of the Kroll international investigative agency, and from private sources....

PRESIDENT CLINTON: Good evening. Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors. Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world. Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons. I want to explain why I have decided,...

Iraq minister says Saddam's WMD carefully hidden -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Updates with comments on Saddam's trial, Iraq's unity) By Anna Mudeva SOFIA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Iraq's foreign minister said on Thursday Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, which inspectors have failed to find, were carefully hidden but Hoshiyar Zebari said he was confident they could be discovered. "I have every belief that some of these weapons could be found as we move forward," Zebari, an Iraqi Kurd, told a news conference in Sofia. "They have been hidden in certain areas. The system of hiding was very sophisticated." The United States and...

<p>WASHINGTON -- US officials have found evidence corroborating White House allegations that Russian companies sold Saddam Hussein high-tech military equipment that threatened US forces during the invasion of Iraq last March, a senior State Department official said yesterday.</p> <p>The official said the United States has found proof that Russian companies exported night-vision goggles and radar-jamming equipment to Iraq, the official said. The evidence includes the equipment itself and proof that it was used during the war, according to the official. Such exports would violate the terms of United Nations sanctions against Iraq.</p>

Report: Syria hiding Iraqi WMD A relative of Syrian President Bashar Assad is hiding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in three locations in Syria, according to intelligence sources cited by an exiled opposition party. The weapons were smuggled in large wooden crates and barrels by Zu Alhema al-Shaleesh, known for moving arms into Iraq in violation of U.N. resolutions and for sending recruits to fight coalition forces, said the U.S.-based Reform Party of Syria. The party, based in Potomac, Md., regards itself as a secular body comprised of Syrians who want to see the country embrace "real democratic and economic...

Army Raids Catch Saddam's Northern Deputy As recently as two days before his capture, Saddam Hussein dined with a top lieutenant who was co-ordinating guerilla attacks on the so-called Highway of Death from Baghdad north to Tikrit. He also gave him more than $US1 million ($1.35 million) to finance the attacks, a US military commander said. The deputy, Qais Hattam, was arrested at a farmhouse south of Tikrit early on Tuesday with 73 suspected Saddam Fedayeen guerillas, a huge cache of explosives and paperwork accounting for $US1.9 million to finance attacks, said Colonel Nate Sassaman, who led the raid. Raids...

We Got HimDate: Sunday, December 14 @ 07:31:19 Topic War on Terror Saddam Hussein in U.S. custody December 14, 2003 As Americans awoke Sunday morning, news came from Baghdad that the Fourth Infantry Division had captured Saddam Hussein in a rural farmhouse near Tikrit. Here's the announcement from Iraqi ambassador L. Paul Bremer. Ladies and gentlemen, we got him. Saddam Hussein was captured Saturday 13 December at about 2030 local, in a cellar in the town of al-Dawr which is about 15 kilometres south of Tikrit. Prophetic Message? This article comes from Focus on Freedomhttp://www.gohotsprings.com/focus/ The URL for this...

Stuart A. Cohen, who has been with the CIA for 30 years, was acting chairman of the National Intelligence Council when the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was published. The National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002 concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has been dissected like no other product in the history of the U.S. intelligence community. We have reexamined every phrase, line, sentence, judgment and alternative view in this 90-page document and have traced their genesis completely. I believed at the time that the estimate was approved for publication, and I still believe now,...

Don't Commemorate Sept. 11 Fewer flags, please, and more grit. By Christopher Hitchens Posted Monday, September 8, 2003, at 9:30 AM PT Unless I have badly mistaken the mood of everyone I know and almost everyone I meet, practically nobody has any particular use for the second anniversary that will soon be upon us. But it is vaguely felt in many quarters that something ought to be done by way of an observance. The first mentality is in my opinion the right one, even if people feel bad about harboring it, and the second one is defensible but somewhat sickly...

Des Moines, IA (CNSNews.com) - Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his upstart "Straight Talk Jihad" presidential campaign completed the third day of a campaign swing across the Hawkeye State Friday, buoyed by a new Des Moines Register poll showing growing support among core Democratic voters. The latest Register Iowa Poll of likely Democratic caucus voters, conducted between July 27 and July 29, shows Saddam leading the field with 23% support, followed by former Vermont Governor Howard Dean with 17%, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry with 16%, and write-in candidate Pol Pot with 8%. Saddam showed even higher positives on specific...

Thank you for visiting my website. Below is the statement I made on the Senate floor on October 10th to explain my decision and vote on the joint Congressional resolution on Iraq. I hope you will take the time to read it with as much care as I have given to making this difficult decision. I am deeply grateful to the thousands of New Yorkers who shared their views on this important issue, and will continue to do my very best in serving the interests of our state and nation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- October 10, 2002 Floor Speech of Senator Hillary Rodham...

<p>A car battery adjacent to a metal bed frame is evidence of Iraqi torturers' work.</p> <p>March 30, 2003 -- At least one of the bodies of the four American soldiers discovered in a shallow grave was "brutalized and mutilated," Pentagon sources revealed yesterday.</p>

Dovish Wife Pecks at Sen. Baucus, Praises Saddam Poor Sen. Max Baucus. To trick Montanans into re-electing him he did everything possible to fudge his identity as a Democrat and all but licked President Bush's cowboy boots. Now his appeasement activist of a wife is causing him problems. The senator's wife, Wanda, a painter and anthropologist, has gone so far as to desecrate the American flag by replacing the stars with doves on an appeasement poster prominently displayed at their home in snooty Georgetown. "We are way out of line" and have no right to fight Saddam Hussein, Mrs. B...

Letter from Marine In Iraq 'To The Great City of Chicago' From Chicago Area Marine Fighting In Iraq CHICAGO -- The following e-mail was sent to NBC5.com from Lance Cpl. Daniel Gomez, a U.S. Marine fighting the war in Iraq. Gomez is from Chicago and graduated from Lane Tech High School. After portions of his e-mail were read on air, many viewers wrote in and asked to see the whole text of the e-mail. Here it is. To The Great City Of Chicago: I just read your article on the Marine from Chicago that passed away in the helicopter crash,...

Al-Jazeera Web site faces continued hacker attacks Reuters, 03.27.03, 11:50 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hacker attacks continued to plague the Web site of Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera on Thursday, as cyber-vandals replaced the news site with a stars-and-stripes logo saying "Let Freedom Ring". Both the Arabic site, at (http://www.aljazeera.net), and the English-language version at (http://english.aljazeera.net) could not be accessed Thursday. Users who tried to log onto the site found a message that read, "Hacked by Patriot, Freedom Cyber Force Militia" beneath a logo containing the U.S. flag. "This broadcast was brought to you by: Freedom Cyber Force Militia,"...

I've just heard a rundown of the CD's and tapes being played by the 101st as they move through the desert. Speakers have been placed on the outside of vehicles to pump up the volume for the troops in movement. According to WJZM Radio(Clarksville, Tn/Ft. Campbell, Kentucky) the 10 most played CD's are the following: 1. AC/DC 2. Led Zeppelin 3. Metallica 4. The Who 5. Tupac Shakur 6. Bruce Springsteen 7. Public Enemy 8. Garth Brooks 9. The Who 10. Cypress Hill Some of the favorite songs ... Back in Black - AC/DC Flying High Again - Ozzy Osborne...

<p>SOMEWHERE IN IRAQ -- Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division's 1st Brigade set off in a blaze of loud rock music Monday from Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.</p> <p>The 1st Brigade combat team on Wednesday was in a convoy of about 400 vehicles on its way north. Behind them is the 2nd Brigade. The 3rd Brigade left earlier and is farther along on a journey that many say will lead them all to Baghdad.</p>

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<p>By Associated Press, 3/17/2003 22:55 MEXICO CITY (AP) President Vicente Fox said Monday he ''regrets'' the Iraq conflict appeared headed for war but insisted that Mexico's opposition to military action would not strain important relations with Washington.</p> <p>''Mexico reiterates its support for the multilateral route to solve conflicts and regrets the path to war,'' Fox said in a statement to the Mexican people broadcast on the presidential channel and carried live on some media outlets.</p>

On eve of Security Council vote on Iraq crisis, Saddam Hussein is due to make a broadcast address – possibly Monday night -with an offer of concessions to avert the US offensive. The timing is under negotiation between presidential palaces in Baghdad and Paris. This last-minute stratagem was planned between Saddam and Chirac

Protesting the Protesters Armed with the knowledge that war is not the answer, I went to the peace protest in search of answers. By Evan Coyne Maloney Date: 15 February 2003 The video should begin playing automatically once enough of it has loaded. Or, if you prefer, you may download the video file.

Talk about a hard web site to pin down! It has taken the effort of our entire Wed Developer Network to finally locate Saddam Hussein's personal blog site! Here is Saddam's Playhouse

What if Sadaam Hussein actually reveals ALL of his WMD's and turns them over for destruction, and comes completely clean? Perhaps this is unlikely, but doesn't it expose a weakness in U.S. strategy that exists because we chose to go the disarmament route, when our real interest is in regime change?If the Iraqi's really came clean, there would be an enormous pressure to admit the inspections "worked." The U.S. would say this proved Sadaam's deceit, but wouldn't a full confession be the type of "true change of heart" that we have been saying Iraq must demonstrate?I think it was Senator...

Later this year, the U.N.-established Conference on Disarmament will seat a new president: Iraq. The nation under scrutiny by the world body for weapons of mass destruction will have control – for nearly four weeks – of the agenda of a committee established in 1979 as "the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community." The conference was formed as a result of the United Nations General Assembly's first Special Session on Disarmament, held in 1978. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq, at first, was unaware that Iraq's turn was coming up. After further inquiry, however, he found that Baghdad will...

Remarks at the U.S. Institute of Peace Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary Of State Washington, DC January 21, 2003 DEPUTY SECRETARY ARMITAGE: Richard, thank you very much. It's a great delight for me to be back with you. It's also a delight to see so many friends from the diplomatic community and friends from past assignments here today. However, having said that, I must say that this is a very different audience from one I addressed last week. Last week, I spoke at the U.S. Naval Academy. And while you are not a bad-looking crowd -- there is nothing quite...

Wed Jan 8, 8:02 PM ET Kristina Oslen a nurse, whose sister was killed in the September 11 attacks, sings at the al-Amariya shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003. Kristina is one of four members of the Peaceful Tomorrows group who have lost relatives in the violence of September 11, met to grieve with Iraqis whose relatives were killed 10-years ago when allied warplanes struck a bomb shelter. The four members said they want to be with Iraqi families who have also suffered such loss because of war and sanctions .(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The trio strode down the vaulted hall. Two men dressed as palace guards, Kalashnikovs on their shoulders, trailing behind another, a stocky mustachioed figure, wearing green fatigues and a black beret. The sound of their footsteps echoing off the marbled floor and ceiling would have given them a suitably purposeful "men striding to meet their destiny" air were it not for the contortions of the leader, as he alternated between yanking at the seat of his pants and his facial hair. "This Allah be-damned mustache is slipping again!" Ahmed pressed at the mass of hair atop his upper lip. "Whatever...

Al Gore stands squarely behind a policy to free the Iraqi people of Saddam Hussein's despotic grip, the vice president said in a letter sent to the leadership of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) earlier this month. He claims he is ready for action in Baghdad, someday. "I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment of the pain and agony Saddam Hussein has inflicted on the people of Iraq. It is precisely because of this conviction that I support a policy not only designed to contain the threat posed by Saddam's brutal regime, but also to help Iraqis one day secure a...

Rush's Interview with Vice President Richard B. Cheney September 13, 2002 As many of you know, Vice President Dick Cheney scheduled his lone interview on September 11, 2002 with the EIB Network. But when the government raised the terror alert level from yellow to orange, the vice president had to reschedule. All of us at the EIB Network were pleased to welcome this distinguished guest to our airwaves at the top of Hour 2 on Friday. Here's a transcript and audio. Again, thank you, Mr. Vice President for calling in and spending 23 of your very important minutes with us....

THE NIGHT OF THE EAGLE For nearly a year now, the removal of Sadaam has made front-page news. But, when does this take place? Short of a Palace coup, America will forcefully remove Sadaam. The will of Americans appears to support President Bush in taking out Sadaam. The question of Iraq’s military capacity plagues the debate. Does Sadaam have the ability to launch weapons of mass destruction against Israel or deliver suitcase versions to American territory? Stopping Sadaam before he raises the stakes in WMD appear to be driving military planning. Stealth is foremost to preempt an Iraqi attack on...