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SADDAM HUSSEIN CAPTURED BY AMERICAN FORCES

Saddam Hussein was convicted of crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people, and sentenced to death by an Iraqi High Tribunal on November 5, 2006. He is shown during a briefing at the Iraqi Forum in Baghdad, December 14, 2003. (UPI Photo/Files)


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UPI Almanac for Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009.
BAGHDAD, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The Iraqi government's hardball tactics with oil majors demanding a bigger slice of the profits from taking over the country's rundown oil fields are paying off.
UPI Almanac for Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009.
BAGHDAD, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The ability of Iraqi insurgents to repeatedly carry out murderous suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad marks a critical intelligence failure for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's security services.
Outside View: To dither or decide over Afghanistan is the wrong debate
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The debate over what to do next in Afghanistan has been politically polarized between those who attack the Obama administration for "dithering" and supporters who believe the president needs ample time to be a "decider." Unfortunately, this is a wrong and false debate.
BAGHDAD, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Iraqi officials say they are considering the country's first public execution since the fall of former President Saddam Hussein, who regularly staged them.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- The president of Iraq's semiautonomous Kurdish region has demanded the disputed, ethnically divided city of Kirkuk, which dominates the northern oilfields, be put under his control.
ERBIL, Iraq, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Kurdish Prime Minister Barham Saleh pledged to maintain regional stability while working with Turkish and Iraqi leaders to resolve outstanding issues.
KIRKUK, Iraq, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A national election law for Iraq is stalled on the issue of voting procedures in Kirkuk, a contested area claimed by Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, authorities say.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Nine Iraqis deported by Britain to their homeland say the Home Office has sent them to their deaths.
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npr.org at 6 Nov 2009 06:50 am
In the six years since the U.S. invasion, Iraq's oil production has hardly matched the level under Saddam Hussein. Iraq's oil minister had been harshly criticized, but this week the...
telegraph.co.uk at 29 Oct 2009 01:12 pm
Saddam Hussein planned to escape from his USrun prison in 2006 with the help of loyalists including former bodyguards according to a book written by one of his lawyers.
irishtimes.com at 9 Oct 2009 09:33 pm
POLITICIANS AND commentators should learn from the Iraq war not to use the type of incendiary language that was evident in the months before the United States and the United Kingdom,...
telegraph.co.uk at 9 Oct 2009 02:30 am
The Iraq war sharply divided opinion over whether ousting Saddam Hussein's brutal regime justified the enormous human and financial cost.
washingtontimes.com at 28 Sep 2009 09:39 am
THE BACK STORY BLOG The military general credited for capturing Saddam Hussein and killing the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq says he has spoken with President Obama only once since taking...
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