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It’s official: Saddam to be executed tonight. An adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, or 10 p.m. Friday EST. The time was agreed upon during a meeting Friday between U.S. and Iraqi officials, said the adviser, who declined to be named because ...
The word is that Saddam Hussein will be executed very soon—and Jules Crittenden says it may have already happened. UPDATE at 12/29/06 1:32:38 pm: A reader emailed to say a “reliable source” has informed him that Saddam is scheduled to hang at sunrise Baghdad time, which occurs at 10 pm ET tonight. ...
He’s taking the fall this weekend. (Hat tip: Ringo.) Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam ...
Saddam Hussein will hang within a month, and possibly much sooner. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi appeals court on Tuesday upheld Saddam Hussein’s death sentence for crimes against humanity and said he should hang within 30 days. “The appeal court has approved the death sentence. They (the government) has the right to ...
The nation’s dumbest Democrat, Barbara Boxer, has a plan to lose in Iraq. (Hat tip: Daniel.) Because US troops there are “fueling terror.” And if we could just “get” Osama bin Laden, this whole terrorism thing would vanish overnight. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Democrats want to redirect Bush’s policies so the ...
Iraq, War on Terror, Jihad, Militant Islam, Saddam Hussein, Election, Democrats, Moonbats
A sampling of the comments at Huffington Post about Saddam’s death sentence. (Hat tip: Right Brain.) Behold, the Democrats’ base. Saddam is a far better man than George W. Bush ever thought about being. By: shrike on November 05, 2006 at 07:58am [...] wow are bush, cheney, rumsfield and rice next?seems to me the killed ...
I admit I was half-convinced Saddam was going to walk: Iraqi tribunal sentences Saddam to hang. BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced Sunday to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town, as the ousted leader, trembling and defiant, ...
A verdict in the trial of Saddam Hussein is expected within hours: Saddam to hear fate, Iraq in tense lockdown. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With Saddam Hussein hours from learning whether he will hang, Iraq’s government imposed curfews on Sunday and has canceled army leave, fearing the historic trial verdict might trigger ...
Ray Robison, who’s been studying the Iraqi documents intensely for quite some time, has interesting information about the NYT article on nuclear sensitive releases at DOD website. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.) What to keep in mind when you read the NYT article. Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi ...
Iraq, War on Terror, Jihad, Militant Islam, Saddam Hussein, NYT, Iraqi Documents
A captured document from Iraq shows that Saddam Hussein had a source inside the Associated Press.
This will be a story to watch, as the links between former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali and Saddam Hussein are aired in court. LINKS between Boutros Boutros Ghali, the former UN Secretary-General, and an alleged agent for Saddam Hussein will come under the spotlight when the first American trial ...
Twenty-five years later, the BBC is still trying to figure out whether it was a good thing that Israel stopped Saddam Hussein from gaining nuclear weapons: Have Your Say: Was Israel right to bomb Osirak? (Hat tip: Mark.) Idiotic comments abound.
From MEMRI TV, Saddam Hussein gives a telephone interview from prison and demands that former Iraqi VP ’Izzat Al-Duri be punished by having his tongue and ears cut off. [Video] UPDATE at 3/29/06 8:59:24 am: MEMRI has updated their post about this video to indicate that the interview shown above was a hoax ...
Here’s some new information from those recently released Iraqi documents that’s not exactly surprising—but it will be interesting to watch the diplomatic fallout now that it seems to be confirmed: Pentagon: Russia Gave Saddam War Intel. BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Russian government had sources inside the American military command as ...
Iraqi Documents, Saddam Hussein, Russia, Intelligence, Espionage
The trove of documents discovered in Iraq has been released to the public, and we’re now starting to see the results; Michelle Malkin has some early translations that are already making clear Saddam Hussein’s connections to terrorists—including Osama bin Laden.