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Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: '; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the President of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power. Read More»From Wikipedia |
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Bush Pentagon Had Contact With African Coup Plotters
A senior member of George W. Bush's Pentagon policy team met with an associate of Simon Mann, a colorful British mercenary leader, not long before Mann led a team of soldiers of fortune in an unsuccessful 2004 attempt to oust the dictator of Equatorial Guinea. Last week, Mann—who had been sentenced to 34 years in a dismal prison in the oil-rich African state after his plot to depose the country's president, Teodoro Obiang, collapsed— was suddenly pardoned, released from prison, and allowed to return to the United Kingdom . Media reports before and after Mann's release quoted claims by Mann that the governments of Spain and South Africa had backed the attempted coup and that it had the tacit support of the Bush-era Pentagon and U.S. oil companies. Documents related to the alleged coup plot have been posted here by the BBC.
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Italian Ruling a Milestone Verdict—And Embarrassment for the CIA
By Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff
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Dick Cheney: An Irascible Witness
questioned about the agency’s decision to dispatch former ambassador Joe Wilson to Niger to look into claims that Saddam Hussein was buying yellowcake uranium (after Cheney had expressed an interest in the subject).
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10/22/2009BlogsIran Nuclear Monitor Dies Mysteriously
…judge, which found that the BBC misreported allegations that Tony Blair's government had "sexed up" an anti- Saddam Hussein dossier, but also revealed evidence of political pressure on British intelligence officials to come up with alarming …
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10/19/2009BlogsJohn Edwards's Poll Numbers Tank. But, Rest Easy, He's No Bin Laden
…unfavorable rating is way worse: 97 percent. So is Fidel Castro’s, who once measured in at 83 percent. Even Saddam Hussein was more reviled back in the day, when his unfavorable rating once registered at 96 percent, according to Gallup …
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10/10/2009PoliticsUnderqualified for the Overrated
…have been given the prize for writing to Arab heads of state in 1991, urging them not to join the coalition against Saddam Hussein 's invasion of Kuwait: an act of lawless annexation that involved the actual obliteration of a member state of the …
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10/03/2009InternationalContaining a Nuclear Iran
…internal dissension and mass dissatisfaction, when Saddam Hussein attacked, throwing a lifeline to the mullahs. Recall ……Washington has not reciprocated. American support for Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War remains a source of justifiable …
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10/02/2009InternationalSplit Over Iran Nukes
…faulty intelligence was used by Bush administration officials to justify military action. Among the errors: that Saddam Hussein maintained an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, including an effort to develop nukes. Evidence gathered by …
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