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He was the fourth Danish soldier to die in Iraq since the U. S. -led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein's regime more than three years ago.

Mr. Allawi did not specify who would be going on trial and it has not been disclosed when Saddam Hussein himself might face trial.

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Tom Lynch and his fellow contractors decided to get out of Iraq while they still could.

In other developments, Saddam Hussein returned to court Wednesday to hear testimony from defense witnesses for some of his co-defendants.

Mr. Blair told reporters in London the verdict handed down against Saddam Hussein, is a reminder of the "sheer terror" of that regime.

Did a clairvoyant help U. S. commandos ferret Saddam Hussein out of his hiding place in Iraq three years ago?

NADIM SHAHADI: "I believe that the trigger for this was the fall of the statue of Saddam Hussein. This was a huge shock to the region. "

Three of the first people he talked to asked if the senator's second name was really Hussein and if it was true he was a Muslim.

Bringing the loathsome Saddam Hussein to justice should have been a propaganda victory for the United States.

Designer Hussein Chalayan was one of the first in the industry to debut a motorized electronic skirt, and he isn't going to be the last.

Mr Hussein, he said, runs "a totalitarian regime that has made a science out of deceiving the international community" .

I said, "Because Saddam Hussein compared me to an unparalleled serpent. "

In July 2009, Hussein was one of a dozen pants-wearing women arrested in a restaurant in Khartoum.

If not, it risks falling back into the sort of authoritarianism that was supposed to have been banished by the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

The right to travel was one of the most enticing of the freedoms Iraqis looked forward to after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.

And you think of him as nursing you. And then Saddam Hussein's serious mustache is a problem.

Hussein had been studying engineering at a university in Benghazi for a while, but dropped out.

Saddam Hussein knew the war was over. He could not have Kuwait, so he wasn't about to let anyone else benefit from its riches.

Obama opponents like to reinforce the belief by carefully referring to the president by his full name: Barack Hussein Obama.

She said her experience as a volunteer on Saddam Hussein's defense team offered relevant parallels.

A week earlier Saddam Hussein had kicked the UN inspectors out again, and it seemed almost certain that we'd have to take military action.

And of the little that Saddam Hussein told us about UAVs, he has not told the truth.

The rain stopped. Let's go and play in the garden. There must be many pools . Hussein : No, I'm not going to make myself dirty.

To date, more than 20 contacts have been authorized, prompting Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani to call these contracts "illegal" .

But the Iraqi capital has lost 16 points - far more than any other city - since the US-led invasion and overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

One of the American commanders involved in the capture says Saddam Hussein was "caught like a rat. "

UN investigation did not play a role, al-Qaeda links with Iraq, Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, etc.

In April, I saw King Hussein and Prime Minister Netanyahu in an attempt to keep the peace process from falling apart.

It is still a useful military motif: recall the playing cards used to represent Saddam Hussein and his most-wanted cohorts.

HUSSEIN: I wish I had known about this place for my birthday. Ali, open your presents. Here's one from Mr. Yamamoto.

He said people often forget that Iraq was not a stable country under Saddam Hussein.

Those who refuse to leave are stupid because the guest is no one else but President Saddam Hussein.

Their arrival two days later marked the end of eight years of US military engagement in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Hussein and his unreconciled supporters among Iraq's Sunni minority, there was an explosion of anger.

A few years later, workers began installing Hussein's statue in Firdaus Square, not far from a gym where Jubouri was a member.

By then, post Saddam Hussein modernization and investment started to pay off and Iraqi oil production began to climb.

"Saddam Hussein's execution comes at the end of a difficult year for the Iraqi people and for our troops, " Mr.

He doesn't want, one day, to be dragged from a rat hole like Saddam Hussein or hauled from a bunker like the Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo.

It will soon be four years since the invasion. Iraq is now so violent that many Iraqis think life was better under Saddam Hussein.

Such images of the former dictator angered some Iraqis, who saw the video as an attempt to embarrass Saddam Hussein.

One of the two major opposition leaders, Mir Hussein Moussavi, a former presidential candidate, was reported missing on Thursday.

But let's say they did, Hussein would immediately apologize to the ChiComs for how the US offended them so much that they had to attack us.

In a notable development, on August 16th the government claimed that it had killed a senior rebel leader in province, Hussein Kamza.

Second, as in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the weight of sanctions would burden the Iranian regime less than it would the Iranian people.

This was the case in 1991; as soon as Saddam Hussein was allowed to use helicopter gunships, he did.

But you wouldn't like to see Saddam Hussein back in power again, would you?

It was a collapse which, as with Saddam Hussein's, outpaced my own expectations.

The International Atomic Energy Agency did not detect Saddam Hussein's illicit nuclear programme in the 1980s.

Tuesday's incidents were the first major attack against British forces in Iraq since the ouster of the regime of Saddam Hussein in April.

With these capabilities, Saddam Hussein and his terrorist allies could choose the moment of deadly conflict when they are strongest.

When it became clear Saddam Hussein had no Weapons of Mass Destruction, the US right simply claimed they had been shipped to Syria.

Secretary of State Colin Powell set out a scenario to bring the tug-of-war with President Saddam Hussein to a conclusion. Tug-of-war.

In a live television address, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi said next week's parliamentary elections will not be cancelled.

Zahra Rahnavard, the strong-willed wife of Mir Hussein Moussavi, the opposition leader, troubled as she inspired.

The visit coincides with the ongoing trial of Saddam Hussein by an Iraqi tribunal for human-rights abuses.

The deal followed the toppling of Saddam Hussein and was viewed as a major victory in the push to rid the Middle East of advanced weapons.

We believe Saddam Hussein knows what he did with it, and he has not come clean with the international community.

American troops captured Saddam Hussein on December thirteenth. But so far the coalition has found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"I'm pleased you could come, " said Hussein Ala, with a penetrating look into Pug's face.

Such an approach, he says, could have tempted Saddam Hussein out of Iraq.

Beijing has also been trying revive oil exploration deals that had been agreed with the previous regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

A generation ago Iran was assaulted by an Arab army headed by Iraq's Saddam Hussein, leaving a million dead.

Saddam Hussein and his sons were clearly doubles, as an examination of their facial structure and features showed.

As a young man, Saddam Hussein found refuge in the area; later, he housed many of his top loyalists there.

One of only two Iraqis to compete in track and field this summer, Hussein is proud and determined to represent Iraq, despite the odds.

As Baker himself recently noted, predicating action against Hussein solely on existing Security Council resolutions will not be enough.

The EU, for example, might have provided military and financial support to a more modest project aimed at containing Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Ayatollah Hakim was the leader of the main Iraqi Shi'ite group opposed to Saddam Hussein.

It is not clear how the Soviets responded, but MEK soon settled in Iraq, helping Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran.

Mr Ban's first day sparked controversy when he endorsed Iraq's right to execute Saddam Hussein.

Pulling Saddam Hussein out of his spider hole set off a "we got him! "

Saddam Hussein once had a 600-page copy of the Koran hand-written in his own blood.

In poster versions for the campaign the images of other dictators such as Joseph Stalin and Saddam Hussein have also been used.

The U. S. forces had hoped to knock out Iraqi television and radio to disable Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's propaganda outlets.

By midnight, and estimated 240, 000 people had gathered together to hear President-elect Barack Hussein Obama deliver his victory speech.

Saddam Hussein ordered troops to the Kuwaiti border, creating alarm over the prospect of an invasion.

Some theorize he was not killed by the Mossad but by Iranian agents for his political support of Mir Hussein Moussavi.

The act is an echo of the toppling of a statue of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in April.

Egyptian Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi was seen visiting the square Friday for the first time since the start of the protests.

Yellow-cake uranium could be nosed as far away as Niger, and Saddam Hussein's connections to al-Qaeda were as odorous as a Texas feedlot.

"Any Saddam Hussein who says he's not doing it for the money is a liar, " said Saddam Hussein, 57, of Basra.

The removal of the worst enemy of the Iraqi people and the Iranian people, Saddam Hussein, has been, I think, a great advance for you.

A month earlier, his brother, Hussein, a member of the ruling party, resigned to throw in his lot with the demonstrators.

Polls have shown a gradual erosion of popular support for the war effort in Iraq since Saddam Hussein's ouster.

Anbar is home to much of Iraq's minority Sunni population, which dominated Iraq's political ruling class during the Saddam Hussein regime.

Back in the field in 1991, he led a Marine expeditionary unit into northern Iraq to rescue millions of Kurdish refugees from Saddam Hussein.

Nearly seven years after the Americans toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq is still groping towards normality.

His father, Onyango, who later changed his name to Hussein, regularly beat his wives and children with a four-pronged whip.

Today the world mourns the loss of one of its great leaders, King Hussein of Jordan. I mourn the loss of a partner and friend.

Ever since the fall of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Kadhimiya, just outside Baghdad, has been bustling with business.

As in the case of Qaddafi's death, gruesome cell phone footage of Hussein's corpse soon made its way online.

And in Iraq, Kurds have run their own affairs in the northern part of the country since the ouster of Saddam Hussein's regime.

Because the administration had actively backed Iraq against Iran, the U. S. government was determined not to offend Saddam Hussein.

That is one reason why Somalia's new prime minister, Nur Adde Hussein, has been trying to woo more mainstream Islamists.

We have no indication that Saddam Hussein has ever abandoned his nuclear weapons program.

He was for removing Saddam Hussein, though he thought the occupiers recklessly ill prepared.

It was also the precise moment when Saddam Hussein was threatening a chemical attack against Israel.

Iraq's National Security Advisor insists he had nothing to do with the video of Saddam Hussein's hanging.

The contrast between the two presidents Bush and their wars with Saddam Hussein is striking and informative.

This cooking technique is known as masgouf, a Baghdad specialty loved by Saddam Hussein.

In his latter years in power, Saddam Hussein's birthday was a major national occasion.

If you go back to the history, I asked Saddam Hussein not to invade Kuwait, but I had to support the decision of the majority.

U. S. troops in more than 100 U. S. armored vehicles rumbled through downtown Baghdad and seized one of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces.

"I'm stopping in Benghazi for the night and then heading to Ajdabiya, " the young man -- I'll call him Hussein -- replied.

While Saddam Hussein had an atrocious human rights record, his worst atrocities were committed long before the intervention.

Saddam Hussein has already begun to make random bombing attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Had Saddam Hussein been appeased instead of stopped, he would have endangered the peace and stability of the world.

We also propped up Saddam Hussein and a host of other brutes who started out as docile U. S. puppets.

Regional officials now draw parallels to the diplomatic impasse between the west and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Thousands of Iraqi Shiites took to the streets to celebrate the death sentence that was handed down to Saddam Hussein Sunday.

The report notes that its conclusions were drawn in part from interrogation of Mr. Hussein in his prison cell outside Baghdad. Mr.

When Saddam Hussein militarily attacked Iran, the rest of the countries all supported him.

One frequent inscription reads: "This was built by Saddam Hussein, son of Nebuchadnezzar, to glorify Iraq" .

The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is charged with having killed thousands of Kurd people .

The United States and Britain are determined to prevent Saddam Hussein from threatening the world with weapons of mass destruction again .

on my orders , coalition forces have begun striking selected targets of military importance to undermine saddam hussein ability to wage war.

Mr. Yousef says many Iraqis were saddened to see Saddam Hussein captured in this way.

An attack on Monday killed 125 people, most of them Iraqi police recruits, the largest single death toll since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Is the war to disarm and dislodge Saddam Hussein justified under international law?

Majid was the main suspect behind many of the worst atrocities in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

The hound's attention is fixed on a cat with the head of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Demon cat and dopey dog are dashingsintosthe roadway.

Unlike the war against Saddam Hussein in 2003, the legal foundation of this action is clear.

HUSSEIN: Here's one from Mr. O'Neill. I wonder if it's a giant ice cream sandwich!

Is Saddam Hussein in a bunker sitting on cases containing weapons of mass destruction, preparing to blow the whole place up?

Obama's middle name "Hussein" and his popularity in Arab countries could pose a serious threat to the organization.

The U. S. -led coalition in Iraq did achieve its goal of removing Saddam Hussein from power.

We all remember that before the Gulf War Saddam Hussein's goal was missiles that flew not just hundreds, but thousands of kilometers.

This newspaper supported America's invasion of Iraq. We believed, erroneously, that Saddam Hussein was working to acquire nuclear weapons.

The Shi'ite leaders of the commission say the candidates have ties to the outlawed Ba'ath Party of former leader Saddam Hussein.

The holiday marks the death of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein at the seventh-century battle of Kerbala.

King Hussein, adored by Jordanians for his commitment to establishing peace in the Middle East, was dying of cancer.

Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, possessed it in its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

Hussein then FBI agent said he was suffering from AIDS, with a blade and cut his finger, so that he can leave blood stains in the letter.

Unlike Saddam Hussein, we believe the Iraqi people are deserving and capable of human liberty.

The city has a history of Baathist loyalty to Saddam Hussein and hostility to the Shias, who count for barely 5% of its people.

But despite the attention attracted by Hussein's arrest and subsequent trial, she wasn't able to change Sudanese public decency laws.

Iraq's talented people, rich culture, and tremendous potential have been hijacked by Saddam Hussein.

Hussein : Ali , you forgot to make up your bed this morning . Ali : That 's because I had to rush to the garden to watch the worms eat dew .

The first Gulf War was, at its heart, about preventing Saddam Hussein from gaining control of more than half the world's oil supply.

Hussein Allidina, head of commodities research at Morgan Stanley in New York, said demand for the fibre was strong.

If not then there could have been more crimes against humanity done by Saddam Hussein.

'The bulls are looking for things to justify higher oil prices, ' says Hussein Allidina, a commodity researcher with Morgan Stanley.

Hussein was in the United States for cancer treatments at the Mayo Clinic.

His condition is a well-guarded state secret, but he may never return to office. Iraq's old tyrant, Saddam Hussein, awaits execution.

Najla Hussein, who works at a mobile phone company in Khartoum, said she thought Ms. Gibbons should have been set free.

Also dealing with the perceptions that are put about Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the links that were put about pre-Iraq war.

Iraq's interim government says war crime trials of members of the former regime of Saddam Hussein could begin as early as next week.

In 1998, the UN pulled its inspectors out of Iraq saying President Saddam Hussein was failing to cooperate.

Saddam Hussein has subverted this program, working around the sanctions to buy missile technology and military materials.

They had risen tenfold since the Americans had toppled Mr. Hussein, they said.

Saddam Hussein would have to wait 20 years to realize his dream of a perfect army.

With long hair and a long graying beard, Saddam Hussein looked confused and very tired.

When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, the 82nd Airborne was the first to deploy in Saudi Arabia to hold the line .

"It's very similar to Saddam Hussein's army at its peak, " said John Hemmings, an expert at the Royal United Services Institute.

Here, he claps hands with his grandmother, Sarah Hussein Obama, at his late father's house in western Kenya.

CORRESPONDENT A Coalition show-and-tell. Troops on the operation to capture Saddam Hussein explaining what happened.

Voter registration is organized around a national system for delivering food rations, a holdover from the Saddam Hussein era.

It could have , but it didn't . After a flawed, politicized and divisive trial, Mr. Hussein was handed his sentence : death by hanging .

He says this chapter of U. S. -Iraq history really goes back to Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait and will not close for years.

'I'm expecting another attack with bigger numbers of aircraft, but don't worry, everything is under control, ' said Col. Hussein.

Under Barack Hussein Obama, the U. K. and France are now Leary of us.

A majority of Americans now believe toppling Saddam Hussein was a mistake.

Mr Hussein's death will not, of course, make him a martyr.

In 1982 the elder Barack Hussein Obama died in the last of a series of serious car accidents.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that he had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait.

When caught off guard by insults last week, Rashad Hussein, a legislative aide, reminded his accuser that Islam is about peace.

U. S. troops in Iraq have launched what they call a major operation aimed at rooting out supporters of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

The Imam Hussein shrine honors Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed' s grandson, who was killed in a battle in Karbala in the seventh century.

I read the intel. Threat is real. This isn't Hussein and his disappearing weapons of mass destruction.

the workshop was held at the tun hussein onn national eye hospital in petaling jaya near kuala lumpur , malaysia.

They married and in 1961 they had a child, who would also be called Barack Hussein Obama.

True but irrelevant, he says. The same could be said about Iraq under Saddam Hussein, or Iran and Cuba today.

One internationally known example of UGC is the footage of Saddam Hussein's execution, shot on a mobile phone.

"The Obama administration should have released the photo, like we did with Saddam Hussein, " Warren said.

Ali: Hussein got a bike on his birthday. It's light but strong and fast.

President Bush said freedom is on the march in Afghanistan and that the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein has been held to account.

Was Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. , a "radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta, Indonesia? "

Another dictator, like Saddam Hussein before him, found cowering in a bolt hole.

Oppressed under Saddam Hussein, the majority Shias grabbed power in the first free elections and held on despite endless crises.

It removed the iron rule of Saddam Hussein, but created an anarchic void in Iraq into which Iran has extended its influence.

The capture of Saddam Hussein does not mean the end of conflict in Iraq.

Its top official, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, 75, served for decades as a top official of Mr. Mubarak's government.

Sunnis and former supporters of Mr Hussein had complained about his treatment.

One is led by Iyad Allawi, a keenly secular Shia and former Baathist who was a prime minister after the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq.

I'm honoured to shake the hand of a brave Iraq citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein .

This type of regulation is a hang over from the days of Saddam Hussein, when punishments were swift and conclusive.

The media will quit taking sides in this thing and maybe start covering Barack Hussein Obama the same way they covered Bush.

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.

"For decades, these oil wells have suffered untold misery under Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule, " said U.

As the 1991 Persian Gulf War drew to a close, Hussein sent men to blow up Kuwaiti oil wells.

It's said that Dana Hussein originally prepared a second-hand track shoes for the Olympics.

Four years ago Dr Taha was publicly honoured by Saddam Hussein at the Military Industrial Commission in Baghdad.

His army was accused of using poison gas in that conflict, a grim foreshadowing of Saddam Hussein's domestic tactics.

Iraqi media this week announced the arrests of over two hundred former members of Saddam Hussein's once-ruling Ba'ath Party.

Hussein has spent more than two years in custody in Iraq.

We had enjoyed some wonderful times with Hussein and Noor in Jordan and in the United States.

U. S. -led forces soon achieved the invasion's main objective - overthrowing Saddam Hussein's regime.

Several of the infected hemophiliacs spoke with the New York Times in 2006 about life under Hussein's rule.

For Saddam Hussein, possession of the world's most deadly weapons is the ultimate trump card, the one he most hold to fulfill his ambition.

Hundreds of people brought flowers and unlit candles to Saddam Hussein's tomb Saturday to mark what would have been his 70th birthday.

The first foreign firm awarded a post-Saddam Hussein contract was the Chinese National Petroleum Corp.

The new allegations date back to 2003 when US and British led forces invaded Iraq and overthrew President Saddam Hussein.

Deposing Saddam Hussein, Iraq's dictator, Mr Blair said, would reduce the threat from terrorism.

Several European governments have also argued against hanging Mr Hussein.

Hussein's tomb was covered with flowers and an Iraqi flag.

The exit of combat troops does not end the post-1990, non-polar disorder that Hussein's invasion launched.

By 2004, it was clear that any WMD Saddam Hussein possessed had been destroyed in the 1990s .

The crux of the problem is Syria's unique minority-dominated power structure, which is most closely comparable to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Of all places, these atrocities occurred at Abu Ghraib prison, once the infamous home of Saddam Hussein's torture chambers.

Mr. al-Jabbri says he knew that God would create this destiny for Saddam Hussein because he killed so many Iraqis.

Saddam Hussein of Iraq, by contrast, was largely tolerated because he was useful in containing Iran.

From a moral point of view, Gadhafi deserves the same fate as Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein still faces prosecution for the killings of Kurdish civilians, many with poison gas, in the late 1980s.

George Bush Senior thought he torn down theBerlin wall, brought down the Soviet Union, Kicked Saddam Hussein's Iraq buttsout of Kuwait.

Meanwhile, Hussein Rashid calls on Muslims to raise their "voice" and deliver a story that can be shared.

Its oil reserves were nationalised seven years before Saddam Hussein seized power in 1979 and all foreign companies expelled.

The ayatollahs also remember Mr. Hussein's 1991 folly of going to war with the US without nuclear weapons.

On the positive side, they conclusively ended the tyrannical rule of Saddam Hussein.

Saddam Hussein's police state ruthlessly eliminates anyone who dares to dissent.

Word came that Hussein had been captured.

Hussein'sRepublican Guard troops were battle-hardened veterans of the 10year war with Iran, while coalition troops were unblooded.

Hussein: Ali, Mr. O'Neil is not a secret agent. He's an ice cream vendor.

The North Koreans know that if Saddam Hussein had nuclear capability in 2003, he and his sons would be in power today.

Hussein was among representatives of six Iraqi opposition groups.

Mr. Smith, I want you to meet Mr. Hussein Service, the Sales Manager of our company.

What do Soviet spies, supersonic jets, Saddam Hussein and murder have in common?

From the start, he believed in a forceful response to terrorism and the need to rid Iraq of Saddam Hussein.

This was springtime indeed for Saddam Hussein.

Enraged supporters of Saddam Hussein took to the streets to protest his execution.

It was forged in opposition to their mutual neighbour, Iraq, then under the belligerent fist of Saddam Hussein.

Oh sorry, you and Hussein are in love with the Muzzies.

As Saddam Hussein learned, no one will ever think that America is filled with a bunch of paper tigers again.

During 6 hours of intense questioning, he refused to express regret for overthrowing Saddam Hussein.

US military says it will release Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein.

The year before Washington had led another invasion - into Iraq, to topple long-time dictator Saddam Hussein.

American soldiers searching one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in 2003 found about $650 million in fresh $100 bills.

Barack Hussein Obama would present another challenge for Iran's mullahs .

The history, the logic, and the facts lead to one conclusion: Saddam Hussein's regime is a grave and gathering danger.

What were U. S. objectives in Iraq? To destroy Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction?

To the west was Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a country Iran fought a bloody eight year war with during the 1980s.

Four-month-old Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf, who are conjoined at the chest, will undergo surgery at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.

by comparison, Saddam Hussein's Scud missiles of 1991 were a passing squall.

We know that Saddam Hussein pursued weapons of mass murder even when inspectors were in his country.

But Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, and threatening overtures toward Saudi Arabia in the summer of 1990, filled the void.

Almost three months ago, the United Nations Security Council gave Saddam Hussein his final chance to disarm.

He admitted that he paid kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government in 2001 to gain access to lucrative Iraqi oil contracts.

Barack Obama once joked he got his middle name - Hussein - from someone who obviously didn't think he'd ever run for president.

The planes bombed the munitions storage facilities of the rebel army, according to Col. Hussein.

On February 26th one of them, Hussein, announced his resignation from the ruling party before a crowd of 10, 000 cheering tribesmen.