Saddam Scientist Held; Son-in-Law SurrendersBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) A top scientist from Saddam Husseins regime was arrested and the former leaders sonin-law surrendered as US Marines left the Army in control of stabilizing Baghdad.Manila Bulletin...
The once and future Defense secretary, at the time a private citizen, had been sent by President Ronald Reagan to Baghdad as a special envoy. Saddam Hussein, armed with a pistol on his hip, seemed "vigorous and confident," according to a now declassified State Department cable obtained by N...
Hussein, Saddam(sädämˈ ho͞osānˈ), 1937–2006, Iraqi political leader. A member of theBa'ath party, he fled Iraq after participating (1959) in an assassination attempt on the country's prime minister; in Egypt he attended law school. Returning to Iraq in 1963 after the Ba'...
Saddam Hussein was born on April 28, 1937, in the village of Al-Awja, near Tikrit, a town just north of the city of Baghdad, in central Iraq. His father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid, was a peasant sheepherder who by various accounts either died or disappeared before his son's birth. His...
Uday Hussein - The Son of Saddam Hussein essays"This is my Iraq. Embarrassing Iraq embarrasses me," these are the words spoken by Iraq
Hussein was born on April 28, 1937, in Tikrit, Iraq. His father, who was a shepherd, disappeared several months before Saddam was born. A few months later, Saddam's older brother died of cancer. When Saddam was born, his mother, severely depressed by her oldest son's death and the di...
Iraq's parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of thousands of former supporters of Saddam Hussein's Baath party to government jobs, a key benchmark sought by the United States as a step toward easing sectarian tensions. ...
The polemic over Iraqi WMD, combined with the sheer complexity of the issue, has obscured a fascinating story. At its heart lies the bizarre, blundering, blinkered figure of Saddam Hussein, who understood so well the brutal realities of Iraqi politics, but was all at sea in the grander worl...
Translator for Saddam Hussein: Let me tell you absolutely clearly. We believe in humanity. We believe, in accordance with what Allah, the God Almighty, has taught us. In the same way that God has taught humanity as a whole. That there must be a law governing humanity, and governing relat...
The son of a wealthy Baghdad merchant, Latif went to a secondary school for Iraq's elite and there met Uday Hussein, the eldest son of Saddam Hussein. After school, Latif went to university to study law before becoming an officer in the Iraqi army and serving in the Iran/Iraq war....