30/Dec/2006Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed 31/Dec/1695A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax Share this: X Facebook Email Prin
At the same time, the interim government set up in Iraq by the Americans, has trampled on the same "principle of the continuity of the state" and refused to respect the oil contracts Saddam Hussein signed with France, China and Russia, let alone recognise the debts that Saddam had ...
Two years later, in 1988, Uday killed his father's bodyguard, Kamel Hana Gegeo, believing this man responsible for introducing Hussein to Shabandar. Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and Hussein's subsequent execution in 2006, Talfah fled the country. Reports surfaced in 2015 of ...
Can Saddam Hussein Get a Fair Trial? ; the First Case against the Deposed Ruler Is to Begin Wednesday in Baghdad
Even before the Iraq War began, many questioned the motives of the American, British and allied governments for the invasion that toppled Saddam. But nothing undermined the allies’ claim that they were helping bring democracy to the country more than the scandal at Abu Ghraib. Frederick was ...
For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here. — George Galloway 11 ...the plan is to engineer events, real and staged, that will create enormous fear in ...
In Iraq a bodyguard of Saddam Hussein was captured and reported that he was forced to strip and placed in front of an air-conditioner whilst cold water was poured over him [73]. Similar practices occur elsewhere with reports of cold water being poured over a person who was then left out...
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Early popularity of Alexander can almost certainly be traced back to Alexander the Great, the Macedonian ruler who established one of the largest empires of the ancient world. Clearly the name remains beloved and for several years throughout the 1990s, nearly one percent of male babies took the...
That tendency is also evident in his support for Saddam Hussein who made Pilger feel at home and safe during his visit to Iraq and Pilger, in his turn, “displayed a sublime indifference to the obvious fact that similar privileges did not extend to masses of ordinary Iraqis who were slaughte...