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Here’s Jerry Weinberger’s Iraq Journal, on a visit to Saddam’s chamber of horrors. There is nothing cold about the faces one sees on the walls of the Red Museum, where from 1979 until the uprising in 1991, Saddam tortured and killed in pursuit of the Kurdish rebels. Though Saddam ...
Saddam Hussein henchman Tariq Aziz has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for his part in the kangaroo court trial and execution of 42 Baghdad merchants; apparently Aziz still has influence in Iraq, because two of Hussein’s half-brothers are going to be hanged. BAGHDAD, March 11 — An ...
Saddam Hussein henchman Tariq Aziz has been acquitted of mass murder in one of the cases pending against him. BAGHDAD — Iraq’s special criminal court on Monday acquitted Tariq Aziz, the man who once served as the urbane, cigar-smoking public face of Saddam Hussein’s rule, delivering the most significant ...
Today’s jaw-dropping example of United Nations idiocy comes from the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, who declared that his agency is powerless to do anything about nuclear proliferators who don’t tell the truth. He actually seems surprised to discover that nations like Iran and Saddam-era Iraq would try to ...
Iran, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations, IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, Iraq, Saddam Hussein
This is the second tantalizing hint from the Jerusalem Post that big news may be about to break in the long-running story of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction: ’Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria’. An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September ...
LGF, Syria, Saddam Hussein, WMD, Israel
An interesting report at the Jerusalem Post, subject to the 24/48 hour rule of verification of course: ‘Report on Sept. 6 strike to show Saddam transferred WMDs to Syria’. An upcoming joint US-Israel report on the September 6 IAF strike on a Syrian facility will claim that former Iraqi ...
LGF, Syria, Mughniyeh, Hizballah, Hezbollah, Terrorism, Saddam Hussein, WMD
The Investigative Project has exclusive pictures of former CAIR official Muthanna Al-Hanooti with Democratic Congressmen Mike Thompson, Jim McDermott, and David Bonior, on their Saddam Hussein-funded trip to Iraq: Exclusive Photos Show Al-Hanooti’s Political Clout.
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Radical Islam, Hamas, Saddam Hussein, Mcdermott, bonior
Following the indictment of former CAIR-Michigan leader Muthanna Al-Hanooti, more details emerge about Saddam Hussein’s funding of propaganda trips to Iraq—and which US politicians went along on those trips: US: Saddam Paid for Lawmakers’ Iraq Trip. WASHINGTON (AP) - Saddam Hussein’s intelligence agency secretly financed a trip to Iraq ...
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Radical Islam, Hamas, Saddam Hussein, Mcdermott, bonior
The former head of the Michigan branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations has been charged with working as a spy for the Saddam Hussein government. An Iraqi-American from Michigan who worked for a Southfield charity has been accused of working as a spy for the Iraqi government ...
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Radical Islam, Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Espionage
My favorite line in this one is when Fisk says he knew someone had forged his name on a biography of Saddam Hussein, because it was “full of the kind of purple passages which I loathe.” You can’t write comedy like that. The curious case of the forged biography. ...
Ray Robison has released his book on the mountains of seized Iraqi documents that reveal Saddam Hussein’s secret support for Islamic terrorism, and set up a web site to promote it: Both In One Trench: Saddam’s Secret Terror Documents.
The MEMRI blog has an interesting document from Iraq, a letter dated September 2002 referring to a recent decision by the Iraqi Council of Ministers under Saddam Hussein to make monthly payments of 50,000 Euros to ... Al Jazeera Television.
There goes Charlie Rangel again: Video: Rangel rues Saddam’s “lynching” on MLK Day.
The cover of the January 6 issue of Egyptian mainstream weekly Roz al-Yousef featured a photograph of the execution of Saddam Hussein—with George W. Bush’s head superimposed on Saddam’s body, and titled “Bush’s Execution.” If Saddam Was Executed for the Murder of 148 Iraqi Citizens, How Many Times Must ...
A Saddam loyalist (the owner of Al-Zawraa TV) and a Shi’ite journalist nearly have a knock-down drag-out fight on Al Jazeera (JihadTV), when the Saddam toady tries to say a prayer in honor of the mass murderer. (Courtesy of MEMRI TV.) [Video]
There’s been a rash of mainstream media stories expressing sorrow at the passing of Saddam Hussein, but this one in the Daily Mail takes the prize: Daughter denied final call to Saddam. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) The pictures of his execution by balaclava-clad figures - and the taunts that accompanied ...
The person who used his cellphone camera to film Saddam Hussein’s execution has been arrested. The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein’s execution on a cell phone camera was arrested Wednesday, an adviser to Iraq’s prime minister said. The adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking on condition ...
Since there was nothing in their Corrections section about it today, I’ve emailed the New York Times requesting a correction for their false reporting about LGF in this article: Hard Choices Over Video of Execution. Specifically, this section: No national American television organization has thus far allowed the moment of ...
A poignant obituary for a mass-murdering tyrant, based on the recollections of Saddam’s military nurse, brought to you by (who else?) the Associated Press: Military nurse recalls softer Saddam. Get out your hankies. ST. LOUIS - A military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail said the deposed dictator ...
Little Green Footballs is running slower than a mule on Valium this morning, apparently because of a link in an article at the New York Times that’s sending us a deluge of people looking for the cellphone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution: Hard Choices Over Video of Execution. Confronted with ...
A young boy holds a toy gun as a Palestinian man, right, speaks behind a portrait of late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein at a memorial in the Dahaysha Refugee Camp in the West Bank town of Bethlehem,Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006. Hundreds of Palestinians flocked to the streets of the ...
The wires services’ Arab propagandists are working overtime to let us know that the Palestinian death cult society is distraught about the execution of the monster Saddam Hussein. Palestinians pray inside a mosque in front of a mock coffin during a rally to protest former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s ...
If you want to see it, the execution of Saddam has been posted at Google Video, apparently from a cellphone camera facing the gallows: Video of Saddam Hussein being executed. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Nothing gruesome, but it does show him take the fall.
Here’s a less than fond farewell to the thugs of yesteryear: Palestinians on Saddam: We lost a leader. Many in the Palestinian Authority on Saturday lamented the execution of Saddam Hussein, who received a special status among the Palestinians. “Saddam was known for his ability to stick to his ...
The Associated Press caption for their photo of the ex-dictator says he was executed by “vengeful countrymen.” (Hat tip: Trent.) This video image released by the Biladi TV stations, which are affiliated with the Dawa party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, appears to show the body of former Iraqi ...