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New York Times calls for deferring Saddam's execution Nov 06 8:13 AM US/Eastern The New York Times called for the deferment of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's execution, saying Iraq had not received "full justice." The newspaper, which is opposed to the death penalty, said Iraq not only needed to hold Saddam fully accountable for his atrocities but also to heal and educate the nation he "ruthlessly divided." The toppled Iraqi leader was sentenced Sunday to die by hanging for ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite residents of Dujail, north of Baghdad, after a 1982 assassination attempt. "But Iraq got...

A source close to Saddam Hussein's wife said that she recieved information that he was close to a nervous breakdown last week because his guards refused to talk to him.Source: Al-Sabah Newspaper of Baghdad

Centcom just released the photos of what they think Saddam could look like..

<p>The "Iraqi Dis-Information Minister Action Figure Doll" is flanked by the "President G. W." doll.</p> <p>NEW YORK (Reuters) -- People who joined the cult-like following of Iraq's wartime spokesman Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf can now buy a talking doll and hear him say things like "our initial assessment is that they will all die" as often as they want.</p>

President Saddam Hussein stressed that Iraq’s serious dealing with the ‘1441’ was not under US threats but because the US, British lies were flagrant enough that some parties have doubted that weapons of mass destruction were real existent. The President quipped “What was the sort of the WMD that could not be found after seven years and half of searching for banned weapons.” This has come when President Hussein received Monday Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib bin Yahya, as presidential envoy from President Zein al-Abideen bin Ali of Tunisia. The President reaffirmed “When Saddam Hussein says: we have no WMD, it...

President Saddam Hussein stressed that Iraqis would defend their country by all available means so as to maintain its independence. The President impressed on real US motives of targetting Iraq that is rich in its oil and natural resources. He also commented on Chile’s delegate in the UN when she asked to specify several weeks as a limited time to Iraq to achieve disarming weapons of mass destruction. The President criticized the Chilean proposal and inquired how can the weapons be destroyed with limited time. “The Chilean officials either do not understand the case or they mean to perturb the...

No matter what your views on President Bush's statement of upcoming war, this, from an English journalist, is very interesting. Just a word of background for those of you who aren't familiar with the UK's Daily Mirror; it is a notoriously left-wing daily newpaper that is normally very un-supportive of us "Colonials" across the Atlantic. Tony Parsons ... Daily Mirror ... September 11, 2002 One year ago, the world witnessed a unique kind of broadcasting...the mass murder of thousands, live on television. As a lesson in the pitiless cruelty of the human race, September 11 was up there with Pol...

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MSNBC reporting that Ari Fleischer has lidded his daily press gaggle, and that the President has cancelled some speech or meeting about health care he was supposed to have this afternoon.Something BIG is going on in La Casa Blanca today!

U.S. Special Forces have been inside Iraq for months and plan to capture or kill Iraqi President Saddam Hussein within three hours of an assault on Baghdad. Undercover U.S. agents, CIA operatives and Special Forces teams are already in place in and around the Iraqi capital, reports the Sydney Daily Telegraph. A government source in a pro-U.S. Middle Eastern country told the paper the plan to ''take out Saddam'' is designed to minimize infrastructure damage, increase the likelihood of Iraqi forces surrendering and save billions of dollars by avoiding a lengthy campaign. Here's what Hussein has been doing in recent...

TERRORIST LINKS OF THE IRAQI REGIME By Ely Karmon On August 28, 2002, a U.S. federal grand jury issued a new indictment against five terrorists from the Fatah Revolutionary Command, also known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), for the 1986 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan. Based on "aggravating circumstances," prosecutors are now seeking the death penalty for the attack, in which twenty-two people -- including two Americans -- were killed. The leader of the ANO, the infamous Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal (Sabri al-Banna), died violently last week in Baghdad. But his death is not as...