Twenty years after the United States-led overthrow of Iraq's president Saddam Hussein, Iraqis continue to face an uphill battle in rebuilding their country. "The post-Saddam Hussein era in Iraq has been a litany of failures," said Jawaid Iqbal, chairman of the Department of West Asian and ...
Twenty years after the United States-led overthrow of Iraq's president Saddam Hussein, Iraqis continue to face an uphill battle in rebuilding their country."The post-Saddam Hussein era in Iraq has been a litany of failures," said Jawaid Iqbal, chairman of the Department of West Asian and No...
President George W. Bush, delivered during a national address at the Cross Hall, March 17, 2003. Bush discussed resolutions that have been passed in the United Nations Security Council in an effort to conduct weapons inspections to oversee the disarmament of Iraq. He said that Iraq has not ...
On March 17, 2003, then U.S. President George W. Bush issued an ultimatum that the United States would take military action if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not leave Iraq within 48 hours. On March 19, bombs began to fall on Baghdad. On March 20, the ground invasion commenced.The ...
session to elect the president. Some 40 candidates, including President Barham Salih, who represents the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, and Rizgar Mohammed Amin, former chief judge of the Iraqi Special Tribunal that organized the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, would compete for the ...
The legal significance of Thursday's proceedings took a backseat to the symbolism of the moment: A former dictator arriving in chains, then identifying himself by saying in Arabic: "I am Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq." Saddam's trial will not take place until 2005 at least. But ...
supervised the cabinet ministers, and ostensibly reported to the RCC. Judicial power was also, in theory, vested in an independent judiciary. Thepolitical system, however, operated with little reference toconstitutionalprovisions, and from 1979 to 2003 Pres.Saddam Husseinwielded virtually unlimited powe...
FRANKEL: The president says these satellite photos show two operational nuclear installations inside Iraq and he argues the time to act is now. Pres. BUSH: Saddam Hussein must disarm himself or, for the sake of peace, we will lead a coalition to disarm him. ...
Saddam Hussein: Saddam Hussein al Takriti was the president of Iraq from July 16, 1979 through April 9, 2003. Following Iraq's defeat by the Coalition forces in the Second Gulf War, Hussein was succeeded by a Coalition government who ruled the country until June 2004. ...
On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton ordered airstrikes against Iraq after Saddam Hussein's regime refused to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.