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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.

Indeed 1990, the year Saddam invaded Kuwait, was something of a turning point.

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

But few of the marchers seemed to take any account at all of the near-genocidal nature of Saddam's rule.

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. "

Joining the military had been Saddam's dream and when he wasn't able to pass the entrance exam he was devastated.

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

The policy was to say to Saddam, you've got to let back in the inspectors, unconditionally, allow them to do their job.

Although they talked about Saddam as if he were the devil himself, some of the Republicans were in a snit over the attacks.

Mr. Blair said he viewed it as a sign of optimism that Saddam was tried by an Iraq court for crimes committed against his own people .

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

He also presents evidence that Saddam "had not abandoned the strategy of WMD, merely made a tactical decision to put it into abeyance" .

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.

Mr. Blair said he viewed it as a sign of optimism that Saddam was trialedby an Iraqi court for crimes he committed against his own people.

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

Yet, like those other thuggish rulers, Saddam won not just fawningly insincere adulation but a surprising degree of support from his people.

And Mr Haass was also right to see that necessity stopped well short of Baghdad and the removal of Saddam.

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

Two Kurdish factions had been vying for control of the area; after one of them decided to support Saddam, he had attacked the other.

But international opinion, which had shifted behind the U. S. and left Saddam isolated and open to attack, now swung in the other direction.

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

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.

Saddam was evil, But I never imagined that there were people as evil as he was.

That declaration might have been less credible if Saddam had had his own nukes to bargain with.

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 revised deal could prove to be on worse terms than the original signed with Saddam but that would be a pragmatic choice, he added.

During the next two years, Saddam became an important leader within the Baath Party.

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

Mamoun Fandy, an expert on the Gulf at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the comparisons to Saddam were misplaced.

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.

This was not a staged and well controlled scene, as was the supposed capture of Saddam and his sons.

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

Saddam uses many look alikes to take his place and protect him from his enemies .

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.

The bush administration is going to embark upon a colossal risky military operation against Saddam.

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.

Baghdad's envoy said the Iraqi National Museum lost some 15000 items due to looting after Saddam's regime collapsed.

Shortly, in the last five years, Iraqi people get suffering more than the 24 years of those during Saddam's regime.

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.

Saddam's reported response: absolute rejection, and a demand for an immediate American withdrawal and war reparations.

But more than a year after the fall of Saddam, only a couple charter flights use the airport.

One of the groups vying for power was the Baath Party, of which Saddam's uncle was a member.

Saddam and his sons had gone into hiding and would not benefit from a public appearance, so his "death" was a safe move.

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

Well, as far as global warfare is concerned, it's pretty obvious that Saddam could have been a major instigator.

He says God has always intended to punish Saddam, just as Saddam punished his own people.

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

In the video, Saddam appeared defiant, although his voice sounded frail and a bit tired.

We would also be able to visit Halabja, and the other towns and villages affected by Saddam's genocide.

He says it was sad to see Saddam looking so confused, with his long hair and beard.

The trial was a chance to let the world, especially the Arabs, know why we Kurds have issues with Saddam.

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?

Every statesman of the world is glad to see the back of Saddam other than the few countries with heavy interests in Saddam's regime!

I said I had called off an attack four weeks earlier because Saddam had promised full compliance.

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.

I negotiated with Saddam's diplomats at the U. N. Later , I traveled to Kabul and served in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban .

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.

It was always American policy to use Saddam's Iraq to counterbalance Iran since it was really Iran that posed a danger to the region.

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.

And supposing we just let Saddam carry on, would it really have been such a problem?

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

Saddam was found by American forces, hiding in a hole not far from where the former dictator was born.

The lack of follow-up was not unique to Afghanistan, or for that matter, to Iraq once Saddam was defeated.

Saddam thought (and said) 20 years ago that after its losses in Vietnam, America would not risk war to rescue Kuwait.

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

He says Saddam held the power of Iraq for 35 years and many people considered him to be a brave and powerful man.

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.

Wow, so you are saying that 911 was an inside job to get us into Iraq to stop Saddam from not spending the Benjamin's?

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

Mr. Bush expressed incredulity that Senate Democrats would wait for the United Nations to act before voting on a resolution against Saddam.

Like Blair, he cannot understand why more people still do not accept the moral argument for removing Saddam.

Iraq's WMD failed to materialise, and the links between al-Qaeda and Saddam's regime proved to be tenuous at best.

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.

To us, Saddam was a symbol of defiance to the U. S. plans in the region.

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

In fact, to my knowledge the notion of going to war to unseat Saddam was never debated among the Vulcans.

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

He says Saddam was dangerous and the world is safer without him in power.

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.

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

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

Maliki asked for Obama's support in getting the U. N. Security Council to lift sanctions imposed on Iraq during Saddam's regime.

The executions come two weeks after Saddam was hanged for the Dujail killings in a chaotic scene that has drawn international criticism.

The answer has much to do with the struggle between Iraq's many centers of power after Saddam's fall.

The American jailers who had custody of Saddam were ordered to surrender him to the Iraqi government.

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.

It will also increase the prejudice of those who saw the UK's involvement in toppling Saddam as part of a "war for oil" .

There should be no doubt that if Bush hadn't turned to Saddam, Blair would have.

"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.

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.

Now as then, the splintering of a Saddam-less Iraq would leave Iran the dominant gulf power, an unpalatable solution.

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.

With Saddam dead and a friendly Shia government in Baghdad, the mullahs in Tehran are showing a new self-confidence.

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

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

Same thing you people were thinking when you armed Saddam, trained OBL, and you know the rest.

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

The domestic-security apparatus is at its busiest since Saddam was overthrown six years ago, especially in the capital.

But London isn't Baghdad, and the British prime minister, David Cameron, is hardly Saddam, so surely there is nothing to learn there.

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.

The death sentence for Saddam and two co- defendants was handed down on Sunday.

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.

Al-Jazeera television interviewed Saddam's former chief lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi, who offered to defend al-Zeidi, calling him a "hero. "

Saddam's treatment of the Kurds is genocide and cannot be excused on any pretext.

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

As the world now knows, such dreams built Saddam into a far greater catch than he proved in fact to be.

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

Four guards escorted Saddam out of the courtroom after they cuffed him.

This allowed Saddam to frame the uprising as one orchestrated by Iran, not disgruntled Iraqis with real grievance against the regime.

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.

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.

For the rest of the tour I spoke to the lads about it constantly, and as Saddam's empire came tumbling down so did any belief I had in God.

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.

Kurdish businessman scoffs that the state-owned hotels in Baghdad "haven't been refurbished. . . since Saddam's time. "

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

Why don't we just leave these people alone? If Saddam was a dictator then our neighbor Castro is a dictator too.

The death sentence for Saddam and two co- defendants was handed down Sunday . Their sentences are subject to an automatic appeal .

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

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.

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

The President advised him that new Iraq would set an example that even Saddam-like individuals will get a fair trial.

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.

This kind of absurd allegation is as ridiculous as Bush invading Iraq because Saddam stole his pressure cooker!

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

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

I was wrong when I said that Saddam don't mean to me anything.

Take it out you'll see saddam is pumped up more and the two nations are cracked up little bit more.

Bangladesh TV channels continued telecasting Saddam's execution as lead news throughout the day.

Saddam, which means "he who confronts, " was born in a village called al-Auja, outside of Tikrit in northern Iraq.

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

The arrest of Saddam does not mean the end of violent attack on US forces and their allies.

As he soon discovered, Saddam was wrong about the Vietnam syndrome.

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

The question is should we wait until Saddam gives biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to terrorists.

The new establishment has yet to entrench a solid political system, despite endorsing two constitutions since Saddam was ousted.

Mack: I was the nigga that drew the little sayings on the bombshell Saddam. That was me.

A satellite channel named Saddam Channel began broadcasting in Iraq during the weekend, AP reported.

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

These provinces remained loyal and formed the mainstay of Saddam's support base throughout the uprising.

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.

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.

Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD.

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

But now they just despair at the mess and, depressingly, even they feel that life under Saddam was preferable to the present situation.

Saddam then moved to Baghdad and started high school, but he found school boring and enjoyed politics more.

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

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

A video showing Saddam being taunted on the gallows has spread on the Internet and by mobile telephone since Saturday's execution.

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

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.

Days later, the American-led invasion of Iraq begins, toppling Saddam's brutal regime from power.

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

Saddam was armed with chemical weapons and was working on the nuclear kind.

Aziz says he will not pass judgment on his former boss, Saddam, until the day when his freedom comes.

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

Oil smuggling was a regular source of revenue for the Kurds and their leaders, according to former senior Saddam officials.

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

This parliamentary election is seen as a step in Iraqi efforts to strengthen a democratic system launched after the fall of Saddam in 2003.

Post-Saddam Iraq has had genuine multiparty elections but is mired in corruption, violence and sectarian strife.

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.

But top officials in the Reagan administration saw Saddam as a useful surrogate .

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

and the evidence presented by Britain and America that Saddam was actively and rapidly pursuing a nuke has come to seem especially dodgy.

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

Yet Saddam attracted real constituents, and not only from the favoured among his own clan, tribe and fellow Sunni Muslims.

The report of the meeting was sent directly to Saddam's son, Odey.

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

Saddam stepped down more than 10 years ago, his followers have been either killed or thrown into jail, and people rarely criticize him.

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

Other villains with short familiar names aren't necessarily following the Osama-Saddam-Fidel pattern.

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

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

Iraqis nostalgic for Saddam refuse to believe that, overall, the supply of electricity has more than doubled since 2003.

Eleven years ago, Safia's father was assassinated by Saddam's intelligence service.

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.

"In Saddam's time, people could not make tattoos, " says Ali Naser Mohamed, a security contractor, who has both biceps covered in ink.

Saddam to set an army of ex-prisoners against Washington's saboteurs.

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.

The cost of displacing Saddam was, in any case, far too high in blood and treasure.

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

Saddam has been hung, which won't bring normalcy to Iraq, not at all.

Saddam's mother soon remarried, to a man who was illiterate, immoral and brutal.

General people were seen crowded before television sets to watch with shock and awe how Saddam was hanged to death.

When the US decided it needed to topple Saddam, his ghastly human rights record received much more attention.

Libya is enmeshed in violent chaos. Post-Saddam Iraq remains fertile ground for Iranian influence.

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.

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

This is not because, despite his own delusions, Qaddafi mattered to the world remotely as much as Saddam did.

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.

My story didn't start after the war. It started as a child under Saddam.

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.