| 单词 | Saddam |
| 例句 | In Operation Desert Storm in 1991, the United States had routed the forces of Saddam Hussein in Kuwait. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Do you remember the part where I said Iran and Iraq had been at war when I was a kid and when Saddam’s planes bombed our city, I was just a baby? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Just as in Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s downfall, or as in Russia in the first days after the revolution, the evaporation of an established order left a power vacuum. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “So are you, like, related to Saddam Hussein?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The soldiers are in Iraq to kill Saddam Hussein, who’s evil. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z "You remember Saddam Hussein, the old Iraqi dictator?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Anyway, that guy, Saddam, practiced his bombing skills on the Kurds. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z "Then the war hits, and he's overthrown. Saddam goes into hiding, and when he's eventually found, months later, he's filthy, dressed in rags, and living in a hole in the ground." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I want to tell them that when I was three, Saddam was at war with Iran. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In January 1991, the United States entered the first Gulf War and was going after Saddam Hussein. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was launched in January 1991, after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Perspective | A wave of war memorials is coming to D.C. Are we all at peace with that? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z In 2005, the government formed a committee to oversee the removal of symbols linked to Saddam. Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders 2010-12-19T20:30:01Z It spun around a young Saddam Hussein, was set in Iraq and in Iraqi-Arabic with subtitles. Student Academy Awards have foreign flavor 2011-06-12T09:16:04Z Hitchens understood the secular nature of Saddam’s Ba’ath Party, which made all the more puzzling and problematic his stubborn insistence that Saddam was colluding with Al Qaeda. The real New Atheism: Rejecting religion for a just world 2013-12-14T19:00:00Z Many Iraqi Sunnis, the minority who dominated under Saddam, saw the move as an attempt to shore up Maliki's position at their expense. Iraq hosts Arab summit, seeking regional role 2012-03-29T13:31:04Z “Saddam turned philosophical when asked how America got it so wrong about weapons of mass destruction,” Mr. Nixon writes. Review: ‘Debriefing the President’ Tears Into the C.I.A. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Saddam was so pleased with the facility that, when the Iran–Iraq war broke out in 1980, he built a number of other weapons factories nearby. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z When he asks, “Governor, do you know why we’re in Iraq?,” she says, incorrectly, “Because Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9/11.” ?Game Change? on HBO, With Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin 2012-03-04T23:12:46Z Some 53,000 UK personnel took part in the Gulf War in 1991 to drive Saddam Hussein's Iraq out of Kuwait, with 47 killed. UK's queen unveils memorial dedicated to Britons involved in Afghan, Iraq wars 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Saddam Hussein, it was reported after the fall of his regime, had golden toilets, or at least gold-plated toilets. Perspective | An art critic explains what the Guggenheim was really saying when it offered Trump a golden toilet 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z He was one of the finest chroniclers of the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew the shah of Iran, his native country; the nearly eight-year Iran-Iraq war; and Saddam Hussein’s gassing of the Kurds. Photography: Rare Glimpses of Iran’s Lost Underworld 2014-03-20T14:32:28Z If the demise of the Warsaw Pact signaled Russian debility, the 1991 Persian Gulf war, when Saddam Hussein tried to gobble up Kuwait, confirmed it. Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z IN 2003, as America was gearing up for the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a tall Frenchman with a thick silvery mane took the floor at the UN in New York. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The guns were labelled as bound for Jordan, but Customs officers suspected they were a sanctions-busting consignment destined for Saddam Hussein's . The arms-to-Iraq court case that became serious miscarriage of justice 2012-10-15T06:00:32Z It also reminds viewers that Saddam Hussein, who was executed after being ousted by the U.S.-led invasion, was once a father figure and hero to many Iraqis. London play on Iraq aims to get behind the headlines 2012-07-02T15:29:33Z They say, ‘Saddam was a very bad man,’ in the same way my English teacher used to say, ‘Repeat after me, very bad.’ My friend the Iraqi 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z If one of Saddam Hussein’s two sons, Uday and Qusay, had turned against dictatorship and emigrated to the United States, the history of Iraq might have taken a different turn. Adam Rayner Stars in ‘Tyrant,’ a Thriller on FX 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Over two years he asked people, such as a doctor or a butcher, to pose with a picture of Saddam Hussein over their faces—at home, on the street or in an office. Shifting chronicle 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z “You’d be surprised at the hostility you would find out here. Stop in at a truck stop and tell an overworked, long distance truck driver that you don’t think Saddam Hussein is doing anything wrong.” Charlie Daniels, Fiddling Force in Country and Rock, Dies at 83 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z Put simply, his reaction to Saddam was out of proportion to the threat. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z It is widely accepted within Iraq that the book was authored by Saddam, although the CIA later concluded that it was probably produced by ghost-writers, acting under direct instruction from the Iraqi leader. Sacha Baron Cohen to star in film of Saddam Hussein novel 2011-01-20T16:39:32Z After Saddam Hussein was toppled, Mossad found huge caches of nuclear weapons in bunkers throughout the country. The World Turned Upside Down by Melanie Phillips 2010-06-14T20:59:00Z The Ministry of Defence's WMD expert Dr Brian Jones felt we had little hard evidence about what Saddam might or might not be hiding from us. How Radio 4 reopened The Iraq Dossier 2013-02-26T20:00:06Z As James Mann astutely noted in his book “Rise of the Vulcans,” “in this respect Panama was a forerunner of the later American effort against Saddam Hussein in Iraq.” Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Saddam Hussein famously gold-plated his taps; he did the same to his lavatory brushes. Gaddafi compound reveals dictator's taste for bling - and Condoleezza Rice 2011-08-25T18:54:20Z Many of these statements follow from the same misguided assumptions that convinced Boot and so many others that a war of choice to oust Saddam Hussein was a splendid idea. Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z So did others, which documented the toppling of a giant statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad two years later. We Need to Move, Not Destroy, Confederate Monuments 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z So there is Laura, curled up on the bed next to Nick, listening to Tony wondering about how reliable the intelligence is on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. ArtsBeat: Nothing Rings True Like Authenticity 2011-07-26T18:21:23Z Tom, imbued with forceful gravity by Mr. Davis, was present when the American troops reached the palace of Uday and Qusay Hussein, Saddam’s sons. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z The exhibition in Blackpool also includes an image of dictator Saddam Hussein. Crazy golftime for Hitler: should we salute the Chapman brothers' statue? 2012-08-15T11:00:54Z Against Saddam, of course, but nor are other enemies forgotten. Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:24Z She launched the gala in 2007 to raise money for humanitarian efforts — a personal mission after she, her husband and young sons fled Kuwait when Saddam Hussein invaded the country. How Rima Al-Sabah became a force in Washington’s social scene 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z That’s certainly true, but it’s also true that the CIA director of that moment, George Tenet, assured President Bush that there was a “slam-dunk case” that Saddam Hussein had such weaponry. Through the looking glass: How can we recognize our friends in the mixed-up world of Donald Trump? 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Things are chaotic at Abu Ghraib, where Mr. Fair is assigned to a team tasked with debriefing former associates of Saddam Hussein. Review: Eric Fair’s ‘Consequence,’ a Memoir by a Former Abu Ghraib Interrogator 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z I believe that when George W. Bush looked at Saddam Hussein in Iraq, he saw danger. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z Penn State fired him and later hauled away his statue, a Saddam Hussein moment. Books of The Times: ‘Paterno’ by Joe Posnanski, a Biography of the Coach 2012-08-20T16:25:26Z Characters vacuously reel off references to "Saddam," "chemical attack," "genocide" and "mass grave" as some sort of clumsy shorthand for eliciting liberal guilt. Jano Rosebiani's pedestrian explorations of Kurdish culture 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z That unfortunate time she warned us about Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s supposed nuclear ambitions by saying, “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Review | What was George W. Bush really like? A novelist whips up a campy portrait. 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z If somebody made a mistake, Saddam could sometimes forgive. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z As people across the Arab world struggle to shake off the burdens of dictatorship, the release of “The Devil’s Double,” a slick English-language excursion into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, might seem either timely or insensitive. | 'The Devil?s Double': Straight From Uday Hussein?s Inner Circle 2011-07-29T00:16:46Z Water had been diverted to Saddam Hussein’s family. Are literary classics obsolete? 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z After each of Saddam Hussein’s epic clashes with the West, Mr. Azzawi produced works lamenting the sad fate of his people. Painting the Arab World, From Afar 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z He conjured Saddam Hussein's son Uday and put him in the play. A young playwright in demand: Rajiv Joseph 2011-03-31T19:46:05Z At first his assignment is straightforward, if also potentially hazardous: to help secure and take control of sites where Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction are believed to be hidden. Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth 2010-03-11T23:32:00Z “I am the banker of the man who is Saddam Hussein’s banker,” he told me. "I know where Saddam Hussein is hiding": What I saw in Iraq right after the 2003 U.S. invasion 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z And he was anything but blindly loyal to Saddam. "I know where Saddam Hussein is hiding": What I saw in Iraq right after the 2003 U.S. invasion 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z And David Petraeus saw and spoke to the folly of Iraq before the rest of America was cheering the fall of Saddam’s statue. David Simon: Media’s sex obsession is dangerous, destructive 2012-11-15T02:43:00Z Photograph: David Furst/EPA Saddam Hussein's daughter is looking for a publisher for her late father's handwritten memoirs, according to a report from the Arab news channel Al Arabiya. Saddam Hussein's daughter seeking publisher for his memoirs 2012-05-28T15:06:56Z Before his death in 2003, Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday led a notoriously decadent and violent lifestyle and looked set to succeed his father as ruler of Iraq. VIDEO: Playing Saddam Hussein's son 2011-08-04T08:14:53Z While on one level he admired the engineering – Saddam had erected a seven-metre-high embankment, 45 miles long, on both sides of the Euphrates – he was mostly appalled, and decided to do something about it. TV review: Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq 2011-01-18T22:00:05Z Tonight we see how, following the relatively swift victory over Saddam's forces, the US government ran into difficulties with a populace they imagined would welcome them as saviours. TV highlights 05/06/2013 2013-06-05T06:00:05Z Saddam Hussein similarly talked up his arsenal to scare external and internal foes, and look where it got him. Iran's self-aggrandising 'fake' fighter plane and a history of doctored photos 2013-02-13T12:22:04Z George W. Bush was right on one thing about the Iraq war — many Iraqis wanted to be free to be more democratic once the tyranny of Saddam Hussein was lifted from their necks. What Samantha Power Learned on the Job 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z "Were we not supposed to report what it was that had the intelligence community so nervous about Saddam?" she asked. Jon Stewart grills Judith Miller over her Iraq reporting 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z But his next film provides the Borat star with his most outlandish collaborator to date: the former Iraqi dictator – and reputed romantic novelist – Saddam Hussein. Sacha Baron Cohen to star in film of Saddam Hussein novel 2011-01-20T16:39:32Z One by one, they closed during the Saddam era, when the government controlled the selection and importation of films, until only five remained at the time of the invasion. Iraq aims to revive movie-going stifled by Saddam, war 2011-04-28T10:22:37Z He supported the invasion of Iraq, in large part, because of his sense of the wickedness of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Books of The Times: ?Hitch-22: A Memoir? by Christopher Hitchens 2010-06-01T22:25:00Z The auctioneer, Paul Brown, said in a recent phone interview that, according to the consignor, the American military had looted the weapon from one of Saddam Hussein’s offices. Antiques: Antiques Dealers on TV (Casting Calls Posted) 2011-03-24T21:17:07Z Al-Jubouri, 47, who fled Saddam Hussein and took political asylum in Germany in 1998, was one of the first exiled writers to return to Iraq after his fall. Blogs, videos and verse: an Iraqi poet's quest to heal her homeland 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z There are surely other reasons to make pariahs of North Korea, Iran and Saddam's Iraq, for instance, besides their decision to trade oil in euros instead of dollars. Comedy gold: Rob Newman's History of Oil 2013-05-03T14:59:15Z Campbell offers an insider's account of just about all the crucial meetings, and there is nothing to suggest that anyone knew Saddam did not still possess chemical or biological weapons. The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell – review 2012-06-21T07:00:01Z We ate dinner together that evening and he told me the basics; his move back to Baghdad from the Emirates after the invasion and Saddam’s ouster, hoping to take part in reconstruction. My friend the Iraqi 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z Following her infamous comment about being ashamed the president was from Texas, Keith started using a Photoshopped picture of her next to Saddam Hussein in his concerts. Toby Keith was a loud political voice in the Bush years. What about the Trump era? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z An alliance between Saddam and Al Qaeda wasn’t interrupted because there wasn’t one, according to any number of studies including one by the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Pentagon’s own internal think tank. Books of The Times: Al Qaeda And the U.S., Still Battling 2011-01-17T22:29:14Z Al Qaeda in Iraq improved production techniques in its videos of suicide bombings and executions after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion against Saddam Hussein. ISIS and its increasingly sophisticated cinema of terror 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Unique too for having penetrated deep within first the insurgency loyal to Saddam Hussein, then the Islamist genesis of what is now Isis. ‘I witnessed the birth of Isis’: how one film-maker captured the horror of Iraq 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z That was because March 20, 2003, was the day U.S. missiles began hitting Baghdad, signaling the start of the U.S.-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein. Pioneering 'Avenue Q' celebrates 10th anniversary 2013-07-29T12:50:32Z In addition to other errors, Powell wrongly accused Saddam Hussein of harboring Zarqawi, showing his scowling bearded face on TV screens around the world. 'Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS' offers brilliant biography of Abu Musab Zarqawi 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z It is only with hindsight they all "knew" that Saddam didn't have WMD, and as they are not international jurists, how can they equally "know" that the invasion was illegal? Letters: An obsession with Blair and Iraq 2010-04-13T23:05:00Z And in my father’s defense, the phone calls back then were heavily monitored by Saddam Hussein’s regime, resulting in the need to speak in code, codes that weren’t always understood. In my father’s Iraq, his garden was a sanctuary 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z The cover reflects this: a panicked, bearded Saddam stares out at the reader, heavy bags under his eyes. Dictator-lit: Saddam Hussein tortured metaphors, too 2011-03-31T15:17:36Z This, then, is the legendary Hitch – one-time titan and hero of the left, latterly post-9/11 neocon turncoat – the man who took on Henry Kissinger, Mother Teresa, George Galloway, God and Saddam Hussein. The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z Ever since the agency's erroneous call, a decade earlier, that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction, the CIA had instituted an almost comically elaborate process for weighing certainty. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z He infuriated Washington by challenging claims that Saddam Hussein had a secret nuclear program. Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei writing memoir 2010-03-16T17:50:00Z Story of my life … Saddam Hussein, on trial for crimes against humanity, argues with prosecutors in Baghdad, 2006. Saddam Hussein's daughter seeking publisher for his memoirs 2012-05-28T15:06:56Z This is a president who ran on opulence and showing off his gilded Saddam Hussein-inspired apartment. Al Franken and Olivia Wilde: Calling a Lie a Lie 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Built by the Yugoslavs, the factory was originally to be named after Bakr himself, until Saddam Hussein seized power in 1979. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z In his book "The Great War of Our Time," former CIA deputy Director Michael Morell explains the blunder that led to Saddam Hussein being deposed and sent him into hiding in a spider hole. 'The Great War of Our Time' goes inside the CIA, to a point 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z At the time of writing, he has completed 1,069 seats, including one with a piece of Saddam Hussein's toilet that was donated by an Iraq war veteran.• Top 10 roadside attractions in Texas and New Mexico 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z We didn't find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but just look inside Saddam Hussein's cavernous baroque palaces. Gaddafi, the great-taste dictator of interior design 2011-08-25T17:03:47Z The country’s former dictator, Saddam Hussein, was captured that December, tried for crimes against humanity and executed in 2006. Recalling when Baghdad fell to U.S. and U.K. forces 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Plates that once belonged to Saddam Hussein, used to serve a venision-and-date-syrup entrée prepared by the restaurant Park Avenue Autumn. ArtsBeat Blog: Looted Dishes Used in Art Project Returned to Iraq 2011-12-14T19:50:14Z The museum is housed in a former palace belonging to Saddam Hussein, Iraq's longstanding president who was overthrown following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Iraq inaugurates archaeology museum in oil-rich Basra 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Saddam Hussein's Zabiba and the King was the first book in my library of dictator literature. Dictator-lit: Saddam Hussein tortured metaphors, too 2011-03-31T15:17:36Z This time, the focus wasn’t on Saddam Hussein, WMDs or the wisdom of invading Iraq. The TV pundits are talking about the prospects for war with Iran, and it sounds a lot like 2003 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z The comment sparked a country radio boycott, album-burning rallies and a squabble with Keith, who staged concerts in front of an oversize doctored photo of Maines embracing Saddam Hussein. The Chicks Are Done Caring What People Think 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z I read this in a US base in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit in the summer of 2004, over long days of hanging around between patrols and operations with the US army. Jason Burke: the key books on Muslim extremism 2012-11-07T19:08:19Z Walters is known for her interviews on U.S. television with world leaders including Cuba's Fidel Castro, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein of Iraq and every U.S. president since Richard Nixon. U.S. TV journalist Barbara Walters announces retirement 2013-05-13T15:51:42Z Her father was a wealthy businessman, a key figure in a progressive wing of Iraqi politics and a minister of finance before the regime of Saddam Hussein. Zaha Hadid, Pritzker-winning architect of defiance and drama, dies at 65 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He does not regret speaking out against our misguided wars, even though, during the Iraq fiasco, he got denounced by conservatives as a “terrorist supporter” and a “Saddam lover.” ‘Hollywood Is Changing,’ Says Its Veteran Activist, Tim Robbins 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z The implication that things would be so much better now in Iraq if it had been left in the hands of the ruthless Saddam Hussein and his cronies seems a tad optimistic. In ‘Frankenstein in Baghdad,’ a Fantastical Manifestation of War’s Cruelties 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z "He was there and he ruled and he impacted on the world," said Mowaffak al-Rubaie, the former national security adviser who escorted Saddam to the gallows. Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders 2010-12-19T20:30:01Z The Lakeside Palace is one of about 50 palaces that Saddam had built around Iraq, most of which he never used. Iraqi palace could show BM artefacts 2010-12-01T00:05:00Z It brought a crane to hoist up the golden likeness of Mr. Erdogan — with his right arm raised, evoking the statue of Saddam Hussein toppled by American forces in Iraq — and hauled it away. Golden Statue of Erdogan Is Removed in German City 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z It focused on Kurdish victims of the Saddam Hussein regime and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Iranian movie on U.S. in Iraq entered for Oscars 2010-12-08T15:36:00Z I began to understand them as a people, their generational struggle to exist beneath the iron arm of Saddam’s royal tyranny. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z “He has seen leaders like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi scale back their nuclear programs only to be overthrown either by the U.S. or their own people and die gruesome deaths,” Oliver said. John Oliver: Trump and North Korea are “Goading each other toward armageddon” 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z A veteran of conflicts from the Belfast Troubles to Saddam Hussein’s gassing of the Kurds, he won a Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1979 for his coverage of the Iranian revolution. | Shirin Neshat on Kaveh Golestan’s Humanistic Portraiture 2014-02-26T17:30:51Z In Saddam's time, there were many things one didn't inquire about. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z That wasn’t a sitcom romp, it was more like watching Iraqis tear down statues of Saddam Hussein in the early days of the American-led invasion. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Two and a Half Men' Offers a Charlie Sheen Roast of Its Own 2011-09-20T13:22:05Z In this clear-eyed chronicle of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Saddam Hussein, Davis asks important questions about the development of democracy and its flip side, autocracy. Best children’s books of 2020 reveal a growing diversity 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z IT’S hard to conceive of too many narratives in which Saddam Hussein might emerge as a second-tier villain. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z Throughout, Rumsfeld defends the decision of the administration of former President George W. Bush to invade Iraq because Saddam was concealing an arsenal of "weapons of mass destruction", which intelligence was later discredited. Director Morris defends his 'smiling Rumsfeld' film 2013-09-04T18:59:09Z Saddam was by no means alone in the tyrants’ gallery. A history of violence 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z On 9 April, the day before the 101st arrived at Qa'qaa, US troops had taken the capital, symbolically pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Firdos Square. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z Bush, which supposedly led son W. to invade Iraq and chase down Saddam. Conan the Barbarian: That's Sado-tainment! 2011-08-18T17:50:00Z “Oh, my God, Saddam?!” someone moans as recent Iraqi history gets rehashed with illuminating detail but also sometimes with more heat than light. Review | ‘Noura’ is the best premiere of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z By the time they arrived, two days before the Saddam statue ceremony, Mahmudiyans were operating a market inside the walls, selling and bartering plundered goods. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z It is a strident antiwar manifesto in paint, also reflecting his sense that ordinary Iraqis paid the price for Saddam’s violent debacles. Mourning Iraq’s Destruction, a Native Son Creates 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z It was in the early 1990s during Saddam Hussein’s regime that travel to Iraq was restricted. U.S. to Bar Travel to North Korea Amid Rising Tensions 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z “In Iraq it had to be. There was no Omaha Beach, no Vicksburg Campaign, not even an Alamo to signal a clear defeat. The closest we’d come were those toppled Saddam statues.” The Intricacies of Colombia’s War, Stitched Together in a Novel 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z That’s why Robert Harris added a murder mystery to “The Ghost,” his thinly disguised novel about the real reason Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain supported the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Television Review: David Hare?s ?Page Eight? on PBS - Review 2011-11-04T22:36:42Z But if you compare Uday to Saddam, absolutely, Saddam was an angel. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z Gooding pounds out news releases from his cubicle, which is comfortably situated in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces. 'Fobbit': spinning the war in Baghdad 2012-10-03T21:00:13Z When he refused, he was tortured and forced to undergo cosmetic surgery, so that he might more closely resemble Saddam's psychotic son. The tangled tale behind The Devil's Double 2011-08-13T10:00:01Z The museum is housed in a former palace of Saddam Hussein, the president of Iraq who was overthrown in the U.S.-led invasion of that country in 2003. Iraqi dictator’s palace becomes museum 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Next to him was Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had warned Bush about the dangers of ousting Saddam Hussein from power. Why the United States Invaded Iraq 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq was despotic, oppressive, criminal and worse. Review: ‘Homeland: Iraq Year Zero’ Chronicles a War-Torn Family 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z If the general was concerned, he concealed it well, especially when Ali informed him that among the looted munitions were 1,000 suicide-bomb belts manufactured at Saddam's orders in February 2003. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z Giggling at Saddam Hussein’s political writings on the pink silk sheets of an Iraqi guesthouse provided for them by the dictator himself. Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z In the Saddam regime there was no authority. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z Over the last month, Iraqis fed up with corruption and unemployment have staged the country’s largest protests since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. These Artists Refuse to Forget the Wars in Iraq 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z During her long career, Walters was known for her interviews on U.S. television with world leaders including Cuba's Fidel Castro, Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein of Iraq and every U.S. president since Richard Nixon. TV journalist Barbara Walters announces retirement date 2014-04-07T16:35:42Z This source has confirmed Dayne's many stories about Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of MWDs and now pinpoints the sites Miller's team fruitlessly searches. Bourne again: "Green Zone" a remarkable movie 2010-03-05T06:26:00Z Saddam had chemical weapons, biological weapons, maybe a nuclear arms program, all kinds of bad stuff. Rob Reiner on Donald Trump’s “classic fascist” ways: “He’s a con man and a criminal” 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Husni left Iraq in 1996 when international sanctions against Saddam Hussein’s government crushed the economy and made it difficult to earn money acting. Iraq's racy TV in Ramadan revives an industry - and draws censure 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z For instance, one scene in the film shows a news conference at which Mr. Rumsfeld recited his “unknown unknowns” memo as a way of deflecting questions about whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. ‘The Unknown Known’ Explores How Rumsfeld Sees Himself 2014-03-28T17:00:01Z From the footage of Saddam’s statue being toppled to the ban on photos of soldiers’ coffins, Iraq was as carefully stage managed as a war can be, with all criticism decried as unpatriotic. Richard Linklater on Last Flag Flying: 'We're not meant to kill. We're not cut out for it' 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z A few days later, the evening Baghdad fell, I was on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, driving past burning buildings, US tanks and the scattered bodies of Saddam's paramilitaries – fedayeen – and civilians. Baghdad, Iraq: 10 years after Saddam 2013-03-17T00:05:30Z He then launches swiftly into the usual spiel about legality, Resolution 1441, his desire to avoid a war by going through the "UN route" and the horror of Saddam. Jack Straw: 'I didn't have a nervous breakdown, but I was close to one' 2012-09-29T23:07:05Z Petraeus had flown down to Qayyarah from his headquarters in a Saddam summer palace up in east Mosul as part of a listening tour around the region occupied by the 101st. 59 Tomahawks and 5,900 years of slaughter: A brief history of Syria 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z “We take stealing very seriously,” Saddam Hussein said offhandedly. Style Invitational Week 1077: Time marches Swiftly; plus a run of bank headlines In short, ridding the region of Saddam’s brutal regime has created a more stable and secure world.” Books of The Times: Rumsfeld?s Defense of Known Decisions 2011-02-03T23:04:15Z Saddam Hussein was utterly obsessed with Saladin in many ways. Christians and Muslims are distorting crusades, says historian 2010-06-02T15:47:00Z “No excavating happened at all under Saddam,” he said. A Journey Into Iraqi Kurdistan 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Shown at the National Council for Art and Culture in Kuwait in 1983, the work remained on loan to the Kuwaitis there until days before Saddam Hussein invaded their country in 1990. Painting the Arab World, From Afar 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z In conjunction with this argument came a second, more formidable one: that the explosives had been there, but Saddam had moved them prior to the war. How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory 2011-01-07T07:59:02Z Unlike the works of Colonel Gaddafi or Kim Jong Il, however, it is at least coherent, so kudos to Saddam for that. Dictator-lit: Saddam Hussein tortured metaphors, too 2011-03-31T15:17:36Z A particularly delicious attack on the French comes in his recounting of his 1983 meeting with Saddam, during which the dictator said that France "understood the Iraqi view". Known and Unknown: A Memoir by Donald Rumsfeld ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:24Z There were no British titles in competition and so we clambered upstairs to catch sight of Whitney, Kevin Macdonald’s devastating portrait of the pop superstar, apparently beloved by Nelson Mandela and Saddam Hussein alike. Cannes 2018: A search for meaning on the Croisette 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Q. What was the worst advice Saddam Hussein ever followed? Style Invitational Week 1170: Derby or not Derby — our famous ‘foal’ contest 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z There's a consistent thread which shadows self-perception because you grow up with this hero, Saddam, who's everywhere and then you get tortured by him. Meet the Islamic superheroes 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z Saddam Hussein looking like anything but a strutting, grandstanding fool? Our disgruntled dictator 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z “He was reduced to a character and a punch line, and we felt that there was a more complex story to be told,” said Ms. Steinberg, whose last documentary examined the trial of Saddam Hussein. ‘Weiner’ Covers a Political Campaign Set on Self-Destruct 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Matt Damon's Green Zone, based on the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City - an expose of America's tribulations in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein - took just over £2m in its first weekend. Alice stays top of UK box office 2010-03-16T14:34:00Z “It’s impossible. It’s like Gaddafi’s green book, or Saddam Hussein’s red book. It’s really for the mentally unprivileged, that’s what I always felt.” Naked in an island idyll: eccentric couple recall a life of rockets and dictators 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z They all included careful qualifiers, but their overwhelming message was that Saddam Hussein posed a threat. Review: Judith Miller’s ‘The Story: A Reporter’s Journey’ 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z “I’m not saying Saddam Hussein was an angel,” said Latif Yahia, a former Iraqi Army lieutenant who was forcibly inducted into the entourage of the president’s son, and whose story is recounted in the film. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z Almost 10 years to the date after Saddam Hussein’s forces did not attack my house, I found myself, for the first time in my life, at a political protest. Steven Levenson: The First Time I Attended a Political Protest 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z It's a gruelling, unsentimental film in a neo-realist vein, with finance from eight different countries, that follows a journey the length of Iraq made in 2003 a few weeks after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Son of Babylon ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:28Z It is loosely based on a novel written by Saddam Hussein. Iraq on stage ? quiz 2011-07-21T07:00:22Z “We have a white flag from Saddam Hussein,” Gorbachev claimed on the eve of hostilities, but Bush was having none of it. Yearning for an Earlier Era of American Diplomacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z “Believer’s Palace” takes its title, and some of its imagery, from the once-opulent building that concealed Saddam Hussein’s underground command center in Baghdad. Art Review: ?Julie Mehretu: Grey Area? at the Guggenheim Museum 2010-05-20T21:50:00Z Among the hundreds of subjects documented by Ms. Simon were feuding families in Brazil, victims of genocide in Bosnia, the body double of Saddam Hussein’s son and the so-called living dead in India. ArtsBeat: 'Seven on Seven' Collaborators Discuss the Meeting of the Digital and Art Worlds 2012-04-13T18:51:08Z I played a Saddam Hussein-like figure, but a line I wrote in that was “the one thing I know about power is the good never seek it.” ‘The New Pope’ Looks a Lot Like John Malkovich 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Having Baghdad as the venue is a symbolic victory for Iran and a showcase of its deep influence in the country more than nine years after U.S.-led forces toppled Tehran’s archenemy, Saddam Hussein. Marvel Comics plans wedding for gay hero Northstar 2012-05-22T16:46:00Z Her mother and father were born in Iraq and watched with horror from abroad as their country was overtaken by the fundamentalist regime that eventually led to Saddam Hussein. Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Raghad Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator's eldest daughter, lives in exile in Jordan. Saddam Hussein's daughter seeking publisher for his memoirs 2012-05-28T15:06:56Z No Americans were killed in combat in Iraq in August, a first for any month since the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003. U.S. may leave 3,000 troops in Iraq past 2011 2011-09-07T02:24:00Z Aladeen, on the other hand, is a truly dangerous person, a combination of Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein, but the film he appears in is a conventional , entirely scripted. The Dictator ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:03Z Yet La Comay also relishes replaying lurid videos such as one showing the hanging of the late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Puerto Rico enthralled by cheeky newscaster puppet 2012-10-19T12:38:09Z After Saddam Hussein overran Kuwait in August 1991, the administration and its allies were at a loss on how to react. Jon Meacham’s ‘Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Accused by the Bush administration of being in league with Saddam Hussein, Mr. Zarqawi would use the Americans’ toppling of the dictator to empower himself. Review: ‘Black Flags,’ Tracing the Birth of ISIS 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z I cited Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons against Iran during the 1980s and against the Kurd and Shia population in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. “Dude, you get to blow up stuff”: The moral awakening of a Navy man 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z I found its ungainly mix of obscene luxury and militaristic design off-putting even before I learned that Saddam Hussein’s deplorable son Uday had owned one. Among the Masters at the Ferrari and Lamborghini Museums 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z During the 2003 invasion, he was embedded with the Army’s Third Infantry Division, Second Brigade, and was the first television reporter to follow American forces infiltrating Baghdad as they stormed Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace. A Good Day in New York for Former TV Anchor 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Michael Morell, deputy director of the CIA, had been personally involved in the finding about Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction, and had felt more certain about that than he felt about this. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z After completion - a 26-year project - its engineers built five more in Iraq for Saddam Hussein, a Tito friend. Bosnia turns Tito nuclear bunker into art gallery 2010-06-16T13:31:00Z In the matter of Saddam Hussein vs. the World, the difficult choice—the morally compromised one—would have been to leave Hussein in power and thus abandon the millions of suffering Iraqis to their suffering. Christopher Hitchens’ last years: Islam, the Iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z This deeply reported account, which draws on interviews and declassified documents, suggests that the invasion and Saddam Hussein’s ouster were both inevitabilities in President Bush’s mind. 16 Books to Watch For in July 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Gates’s logic is diabolically sound: the Americans will have no trouble sweeping in and taking the money since Saddam Hussein’s army is currently preoccupied with quashing the resistance. Three Kings at 20: the war movie where anything was possible 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z There is her sidekick, a former mortuary worker who calls himself Saddam Hussain because he is obsessed with the “courage and dignity” of Saddam “in the face of death.” Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Then, in April 2002, Tony Blair told NBC News that Saddam "has stockpiles of major amounts of chemical and biological weapons". How Radio 4 reopened The Iraq Dossier 2013-02-26T20:00:06Z The Kuwait National Museum is still trying to trace 487 priceless artefacts looted after Saddam Hussein’s invasion. Kuwait's lost treasures: how stolen riches?remain central to rift with Iraq 2010-06-21T21:09:00Z His family fled to America, but when Saddam was toppled Alwash, now an engineer, went back and found the marshes replaced with parched, flat desert. TV review: Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq 2011-01-18T22:00:05Z “I can speak only for myself when I say that the answer must be no. Saddam was busy writing novels in 2003. He was no longer running the government.” Review: ‘Debriefing the President’ Tears Into the C.I.A. 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z It was distorted, and he allowed himself to be persuaded that Saddam was a greater risk than he actually was. America’s war mistakes 2012-06-16T20:00:00Z Moreover, he notes, it “deposed the secular socialist Saddam, whom bin Laden had long despised,” ignited “Sunni and Shia fundamentalist fervor in Iraq” and provoked “a ‘defensive’ jihad that galvanized jihadi-minded Muslims around the world.” Books of The Times: Al Qaeda And the U.S., Still Battling 2011-01-17T22:29:14Z This pair of Sarahs is meant to rally the faithful against a despised if imaginary enemy, as George W. Bush marshaled a fearful America against Saddam Hussein. The Undefeated: Her Holiness Sarah Palin 2011-07-15T08:55:00Z The dialogue refers to Saddam, and the occupying troops are simply referred to as "they" without mentioning the word Iraqis. Kuwait drama on war unity contrasts current feuds 2012-08-16T12:25:15Z He had the troops roaring in Baghdad in 2003, shortly after the capture of Saddam Hussein. The Military Absolutely Loved Robin Williams 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z After the U.S.-led coalition invaded in 2003 and toppled Saddam, movie archives and equipment were looted, and later sectarian violence drained the country of artistic talent. After dark years, lights coming back on for Iraqi cinema 2012-11-14T14:04:37Z After all, Mr. Morton recalled in an interview, there have been saber-toothed tiger fossils and Hitler’s bookmark and Saddam Hussein’s AK-47. Dinosaur Skeleton to Be Returned to Mongolians 2013-05-06T03:00:01Z Our servicemen and women were involved in every phase of the war, from the initial invasion in 2003, to the capture of Saddam Hussein, to the much-heralded surge, to Operation New Dawn. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Last month, Cooper made waves at the Sundance Film Festival for his dual roles in the indie film "The Devil's Double", in which he plays both Saddam Hussein and the late Iraqi leader's double. Joaquin Phoenix out of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" 2011-02-11T00:09:10Z Secret Iraq9pm, BBC2 This two-part doc looks at what happened to Iraq after the fall of Saddam, with this opener focusing on the insurgency. Tonight's TV highlights: Start Your Own School 2010-09-28T23:05:00Z When Saddam did evil he probably told himself it was for the greater good. Dictator-lit: Saddam Hussein tortured metaphors, too 2011-03-31T15:17:36Z Saddam Hussein’s putative mobile chemical-weapons labs came up in the conversation, too. Magazine Preview: The Dark Art of ?Breaking Bad? 2011-07-06T12:20:00Z “These were the things that Saddam used and they should be seen by the Iraqi people.” ArtsBeat Blog: Looted Dishes Used in Art Project Returned to Iraq 2011-12-14T19:50:14Z The bust, right, is kept in the office of former national security adviser Mowafak al-Rubaie who led Saddam to the gallows. Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders 2010-12-19T20:30:01Z He fled Iraq in 1993 during Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and gained international fame, performing around the world and receiving dozens of awards. Iconic musician seeks to rebuild Iraq through music 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z As for the deeper stuff, Hitchens describes his gradual transformation from a '60s Marxist idealist to Iraq hawk: he witnessed Saddam Hussein's atrocities there and found removing him a moral imperative. 'Hitch-22': the unvarnished, unapologetic Christopher Hitchens tells all 2010-06-22T00:12:00Z He contends that the Bush White House sold a lie to the American public: that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent fatal threat. Movie Review: ‘The Prosecution of an American President,’ Directed by Dave Hagen and David J. Burke 2012-10-12T03:00:44Z Mr. Cooper noted that for an eldest son to be passed over is a mark of dishonor in many cultures, and Saddam’s choice of Qusay as a senior tactician must have stung his brother. Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath 2011-07-22T13:00:00Z This was Saddam’s postwar Iraq: resources were scarce, I was suffering from hypoxia, and my father was forced to bribe the doctors for more oxygen to keep me alive. I’m blind – but it can be a blessing in disguise 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Nassir, a Shia Iraqi who was a police officer under Saddam and is now unemployed. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z He probably deserted during the invasion, never wanted to fight U.S. troops, and just wanted to go home and live in an Iraq free of Saddam Hussein. “Our sons will ask us what we did here”: an interrogator’s memories of Abu Ghraib 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z So again four years later, after it had become apparent that Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction were made of the same stuff as Eisenheim’s projection of “The Vanishing Lady.” My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z The application was made several times under Saddam Hussein but was always turned down because of the "absence of any management and preservation plans for the site", she explained. Babylon's undiscovered treasures threatened by new oil pipeline 2012-05-29T13:06:00Z Imagine a nightmare version of "The Godfather" featuring Saddam Hussein instead of the benevolent Mafia kingpin Don Corleone. 'The Devil's Double' captures horror of Hussein son's look-alike 2011-08-04T20:00:06Z That was up until the late 1980s, when Saddam decided he wanted to get rid of the indigenous Marsh Arabs and drained the whole thing. TV review: Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and Miracle in the Marshes of Iraq 2011-01-18T22:00:05Z Lee Tamahori's new movie, The Devil's Double , in which Dominic Cooper plays both Saddam Hussein's son Uday and a man recruited to be his decoy, hits cinemas in the UK next week. Jesse Eisenberg to Double up for Dostoyevsky adaptation 2011-08-05T12:24:04Z Unlike the U.S. government, I have never supported Saddam Hussein. Barry Crimmins’s Hard Truths 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z At the end of the 20th century it was spoiled by Saddam Hussein and in the early 21st century damaged by the US army. Babylon's undiscovered treasures threatened by new oil pipeline 2012-05-29T13:06:00Z The village had been rebuilt following the Anfal campaign of extermination against the Kurdish people carried out by the Saddam regime in the late 1980s, and consisted almost entirely of bereaved wives. Son of Babylon: 'I made it for my family, for Iraq' 2011-02-03T23:30:00Z The party was nothing more than a vehicle that promoted the regimes of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi – for money – and supplied a stream of women for its supreme leader, Gerry Healy, to enjoy. Why leftists and 'revolutionaries' are not the best feminists 2013-02-03T00:06:08Z But during the 1990s, the hardships imposed by international sanctions and the increasing repression of Saddam Hussein's regime made cultural life in Baghdad difficult to sustain. Farida Mohammad Ali: the mother of all Maqam 2010-07-01T21:30:00Z He is a member of the Shia sect; 10 years ago, he was an officer in the defeated army of Saddam Hussein, his city newly under US occupation. Baghdad, Iraq: 10 years after Saddam 2013-03-17T00:05:30Z Two books trace the origins of IS to America’s misbegotten invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003, the subsequent Sunni backlash against the newly enfranchised Shias and the appalling civil war in Syria. Rolling into town 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z For weeks, George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein had engaged in a stare-down contest. When the war came for me 2013-03-19T00:00:00Z He sat with Saddam for two years after receiving a phone call from the tyrant himself. Qur'an etched in Saddam Hussein's blood poses dilemma for Iraq leaders 2010-12-19T20:30:01Z The title derives from a frequently parodied Rumsfeld response to a reporter's question about whether there actually was evidence of any link between Saddam Hussein and terrorists seeking weapons of mass destruction. Books: Donald Rumsfeld on being the smartest guy in the room 2011-02-08T08:01:00Z In the 1970s, under President Saddam Hussein’s restoration project, the southern palace’s walls and arches were shoddily rebuilt on top of the existing ruins, causing widespread damage. Ancient Iraqi city of Babylon designated UNESCO World Heritage Site 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z The reason the Borgia and Kennedy myths never die is particularly obvious now, when the world is reeling from the likes of Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak and Col. Television Review: The Power Brokers: Fathers, Sons, Dynasties 2011-03-31T20:00:05Z The drama is created by Stephen Butchard, the writer of House of Saddam, who says that providing that domestic perspective was crucial to establishing the tone. Thriller finally gives Iraqis key roles in 2003 invasion story 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Later, in 2002, Holbrooke’s reasons for supporting the impending war in Iraq had to do with fear — not just of Saddam Hussein but also of the possibility that “a soft Democrat was politically doomed.” The Agony and the Ecstasy of Richard Holbrooke 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Censorship was lifted when a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam in 2003 but far from an upturn in sales these days Hissam sometimes sells just a few books at his shop on Mutanabbi Street. Baghdad book market turns the page on a new Iraq 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z After Saddam was toppled, conservative Shi’ite-led parties took power in Basra, bringing with them a religiously restrictive lifestyle. Fairouz Cafe brings Levantine nostalgia to southern Iraq 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Rumsfeld was secretary of defense and shouldered some of the blame as Iraq sank into chaos after the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z They have depicted the Queen blowing her brains out after a failed attempt by the British army to reinvade America, Saddam Hussein as Satan's gay lover, and Jesus as a trigger-happy superhero. South Park censored after threat of fatwa over Muhammad episode 2010-04-22T20:16:00Z It even explored the influence of “Star Wars” on Saddam Hussein’s son Uday. Bidoun, an Influential Magazine of the Middle East, Extends Its Reach 2015-12-25T05:00:00Z Later I heard that Saddam had visited our district in disguise. Iraq war 10 years on: 'My brother was tortured and held without charge for 40 days' 2013-03-17T00:00:04Z Wilson had investigated Saddam's alleged pursuit of enriched uranium, and Plame had been tracking aluminium tubes that were supposedly bought by Iraq as part of its nuclear weapons programme. Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z More recently, the icon of symbolic destruction was a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square, pulled down by U.S. troops and Iraqi citizens during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The militant groups, which proliferated in Iraq in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam Hussein and his Sunni government, are trained and funded by Shi'ite power Iran. US forces under fire in Middle East as America slides towards brink 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which toppled Sunni Muslim autocrat Saddam Hussein, allowed Shi'ite Muslim Iran to expand its influence there. Jordan fears the crossfire if Gaza war pulls Iran into wider conflict 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z A better parallel, he says, is Iraq in 2003, where US-led forces attempted to remove all traces of Saddam Hussein's regime. Israel has no plan for Gaza after war ends, experts warn 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Fear Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Beyond the right's "woke" slurs, what would a "progressive" U.S. military really look like? 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z But the desire for one, the imagining of one, helps explain how al-Qaida’s attacks led to our disastrous invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. How Israel’s 9/11 tests American grand strategy | Ross Douthat 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z In 2003, Ms Feinstein voted in favour of the Iraq War, saying she believed at the time that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. Obituary: Dianne Feinstein, trailblazing senator who defied CIA and White House 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z They were only twice allowed outside for exercise and were made to watch speeches by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on television. Former Kuwait hostage says she did not expect to survive captivity 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z It wasn’t immediately clear why authorities in Iraq allowed the cladding to be used on the hall, though corruption and mismanagement remains endemic two decades after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq kills at least 100 people and injures 150 more 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z But since the U.S. toppled former leader Saddam Hussein in 2003, Shi'ite Muslim parties close to Tehran have become key political players in Baghdad and economic and religious ties between both nations have expanded. Historic Iraq-Iran railway link ready in 18 months -Iraq transport adviser 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Iraq has more than 70 private banks, a relatively new feature in a sector that was almost entirely controlled by the state until Saddam Hussein was toppled in the U.S. invasion of 2003. U.S. Treasury official says Iraq must act to avoid further action on banks 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z More than 300 people onboard were detained by Iraqi troops, marking the start of an ordeal lasting almost five months as they were used by Saddam Hussein as "human shields" against western attacks. Gulf War 'human shield' hostages set to take legal action 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Even then, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was already in the Pentagon's crosshairs. A short history of America's disaster: How 9/11 bred the endless war on terror 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z He bargained with a who’s who of America’s adversaries, including Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Bill Richardson, a former governor and U.N. ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Richardson negotiated personally with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 1995 to gain the release of two American aerospace workers who had strayed over the Iraqi border from Kuwait. Bill Richardson, U.S. diplomat and troubleshooter, dead at 75 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z The attack came in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled the dictator, Saddam Hussein, but unleashed an insurgency and years of brutal civil war in the country. Officials commemorate 20th anniversary of deadly attack on UN headquarters in Iraq 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z While not a terrorist, she said, he worked for a time in Iraq for the Ba’ath Party, best known for its reviled leader, Saddam Hussein. Handcuffs, searches, ‘SSSS’ stamps: Why this Seattle imam is suing the U.S. 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z The attack was likely intended to foment unrest between Kuwait’s Sunni and Shiite populations, but instead it backfired, reawakening a sense of national solidarity not seen since Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion. Kuwait executes 5 prisoners, including a man convicted in 2015 Islamic State-claimed mosque bombing 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z In Iraq, over 43,000 people remain missing since a U.S.-led invasion in 2003 toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, followed by a ferocious civil war and the rise of the Islamic State extremist group. Families of tens of thousands missing in Syria draw some hope from new U.N. push to find loved ones 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z When Richardson reached over to pat Saddam on the arm after securing the deal, the Iraqi leader's security guards misunderstood the friendly gesture and reached for their guns. Bill Richardson, U.S. diplomat and troubleshooter, dead at 75 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Characters include remixes of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. Captivated by the multiverse and alternate realities? Here’s a handy guide to some good stuff 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Kuwait, considered a major non-NATO ally, and the U.S. have had a close military partnership since America launched the 1991 Gulf War to expel Iraqi troops after Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded the country. Kuwait strikes $367 million deal to acquire Turkish-made combat drones 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z "I was sitting near the beach when the first explosion happened at the front gate of the hotel and there was another one at the back," eyewitness Hussein Saddam told the Reuters news agency. Pearl Beach hotel: Islamists kill nine in Somalia attack 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Adel al-Batat, in his late 60s, has struggled to find work since he was initially displaced from marshlands when Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein drained vast parts in the 1990s to flush out rebels. Drought drives economic exodus from Iraq's rivers and marshlands 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z It could certainly happen to us unless enough people recognize that Trump is psychologically just another Hitler, Stalin, Saddam or the other malignant tyrants throughout history. Psychiatrists warn Trump's psychosis will grow "as he becomes more desperate" 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Twenty years after the U.S. invasion toppled longtime dictator Saddam Hussein and divided the unified country in the heart of the Arab world, Iraq is still seeking stability. UN urges Iraq to deliver on reforms and combat corruption — and backs it fight against terrorism 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z “He’s a dictator. Like Saddam. Or Qaddafi,” said Sayed, a 52-year-old taxi driver who gave only his first name to avoid reprisals. Turks choose their president in unprecedented runoff race 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z It's a strategy that was used to sell the Iraq War, by hyping false claims that Saddam Hussein was concealing weapons of mass destruction. The most surprising part of the "homeless veterans" hoax? Fox News admitted they were wrong 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z Saddam Hussein, The military leader at the head of the Ba’ath Party, launched the Iran-Iraq War as a straightforward territorial grab. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately following, uprisings took place in Kurdish and Shi‛ite regions of Iraq that sought to topple President Saddam Hussein’s government. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Qaeda fighters became active in Iraq soon after the American-led invasion in 2003, gaining support, weapons and knowledge of the terrain from former supporters of Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s longtime dictator. Iraqi Man Accused of War Crimes Is Arrested in Belgium 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The majority of the population thought that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. Noam Chomsky on "savage capitalism": From climate change to bank failures to war 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In reality, the Firdos Square statue was a minor part of the huge number of monuments and palaces that Saddam erected to show off his power. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Residents say they generally coexisted before the 2003 invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Thousands still missing from 20 years of Iraq’s turmoil 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The measure also would repeal the 1991 resolution authorizing the U.S. military’s combat action against Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Why the debate over repealing Iraq War approval matters 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The Bush administration had drummed up support among members of Congress and the American public for invading Iraq by promoting what turned out to be false intelligence alleging Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Senate votes to repeal 2002 measure that approved Iraq war 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The Bush administration had drummed up support among members of Congress and the American public for invading Iraq by promoting what turned out to be false intelligence claims about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction. Senate poised to vote on repeal of Iraq war powers 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z “This new garden that replaced Saddam’s represents the widespread corruption in Iraq today, underneath the nice greenery and fountains,” said al-Sharaa. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Neither estimate includes the missing from conflicts prior to 2003, or those who disappeared into Saddam’s prisons. Thousands still missing from 20 years of Iraq’s turmoil 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z “Is the world better off without Saddam Hussein, and are we better off with a democracy replacing him? I’d say yes.” Analysis | ‘A horrible vote’: Congress revisits one of its gravest mistakes, the Iraq War 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z Twenty years since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein and remade Iraq’s political order with the promise of democracy and freedom, he has one wish: to find a way to leave. Corruption, deep disparity mark Iraq’s oil legacy post-2003 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The Bush administration argued Saddam Hussein’s government was still hiding programs from inspectors after they reentered the country in 2002 and found no signs of resumed production. Iraq WMD failures shadow US intelligence 20 years later 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z He said that while he doesn’t miss Saddam’s rule he does miss “the rule of the law.” Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z A Shiite Muslim whose uncle had been murdered by Saddam’s thugs, Salam was delighted to see the domination of the dictator’s Sunni minority come to an end. Willful U.S. ignorance on Iraq destroyed my interpreter's dreams, family and life | Trudy Rubin 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Twenty years since the U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein and remade Iraq’s political order with the promise of democracy and freedom, he has one wish: To find a way to leave. Corruption, deep disparity mark Iraq’s oil legacy post-2003 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gaddafi used these tactics in Iraq and Libya, respectively. Opinion | Why Xi and Putin pretend they run democracies 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Two decades after the UK joined a coalition to overthrow Saddam Hussein in Iraq, BBC News spoke to three Armed Forces veterans whose lives were profoundly changed by their service. Iraq war 20 years on: 'I lost my leg, but I'd do it again' 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z It’s not known what happened to most of the Saddam statue, but pieces of it were taken away by souvenir hunters. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z As I wrote then, I sympathized emotionally with the idea of ousting the hideous Saddam. Willful U.S. ignorance on Iraq destroyed my interpreter's dreams, family and life | Trudy Rubin 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Lloyd J. Austin III has made an unannounced visit to Baghdad days before the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Two decades after start of Iraq conflict, Congress poised to repeal war authorization 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z There is broad bipartisan support to withdraw that congressional approval granted in 1991 and 2002 for military strikes against Saddam Hussein’s regime. Senate votes to keep 2001 authorization for war on terror 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z I was based at Camp Victory in Saddam Hussein's old palace. Iraq war 20 years on: 'I lost my leg, but I'd do it again' 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Saddam “needed to project power in different ways to remind the people who was in charge.” Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Twenty years ago, when I first hired him in Baghdad, my Iraqi interpreter and driver Salam was thrilled that the Americans had toppled Saddam Hussein. Willful U.S. ignorance on Iraq destroyed my interpreter's dreams, family and life | Trudy Rubin 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Bush gave as justification for the war in Iraq what he claimed was intelligence showing that dictator Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. Two decades after start of Iraq conflict, Congress poised to repeal war authorization 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In March 2003, the US and its allies invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, which they said had weapons of mass destruction. European young adults are critical of both US and China - study 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z That rapidly changed after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein. Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Some of Saddam’s signature monuments remain in place, largely because they had a nationalist meaning that went beyond him. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z I’m not just referring to cherry-picked intelligence or the false claims about weapons of mass destruction or the hubristic belief that ousting Saddam was key to remaking the entire Mideast. Willful U.S. ignorance on Iraq destroyed my interpreter's dreams, family and life | Trudy Rubin 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z This one was close to a housing block that Saddam Hussein had allocated for Palestinian refugees. Perspective | The Iraq I never knew As far as he is concerned, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein, and he has told advisers he has not changed his mind about that. Bush Doesn’t Second-Guess Himself on Iraq. Even if Everyone Else Does. 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In Iraq, the Kurdish region won de facto self-rule in 1991, when the United States imposed a no-fly zone over it in response to Saddam’s brutal repression of Kurdish uprisings. Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The al-Faw Palace was built on an island in the middle of an artificial lake by Saddam in the 1990s to mark the retaking of the peninsula of the same name during the war. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z On March 20, 2003, President George W. Bush announced the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein and destroyed his alleged stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq War: 20 Years On 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z “We overthrew Saddam and handed the country over to Iran,” he said, lamenting how Iraq’s neighbor now exerts its influence. Iraq, 20 Years Later: A Changed Washington and a Terrible Toll on America 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z “I think Bush is an extraordinarily complex person,” said Melvyn P. Leffler, a University of Virginia historian who just published “Confronting Saddam Hussein,” a book examining the war. Bush Doesn’t Second-Guess Himself on Iraq. Even if Everyone Else Does. 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z With the U.S. overthrow of Saddam, he said, “We achieved that … We became a strong group in Baghdad.” Kurds remain biggest winners from US-led invasion of Iraq 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Saddam’s presence can still be found on campus. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z His father had been a colonel when Saddam Hussein was in power, and rejoined the Iraqi Army, which the Americans initially dissolved, after it was reconstituted. The Children of the Iraq War Have Grown Up, but Some Wounds Don’t Heal 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Iraq's tyrant, Saddam Hussein, was well worth overthrowing - he had imprisoned and killed thousands of Iraqis, even using chemical weapons against rebellious Kurds. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z On 20 March 2003, US and allied forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. Why did the US and allies invade Iraq, 20 years ago? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z It started with an aerial assault to topple Saddam Hussein and became an occupation, then a war against an insurgency and then a sectarian civil war. Your Monday Briefing: Putin and Xi to Meet in Moscow 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The artificial lake is still stocked with a breed of giant carp that U.S. soldiers called “Saddam bass.” Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z A well-informed source told me that Saddam Hussein maintained leverage over Aziz by keeping his son in jeopardy of imprisonment or worse, to ensure that Aziz would not defect or otherwise step out of line. The urbanity of evil: 20 years after the Iraq invasion, the lies continue 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The past 20 years since the invasion, coming on top of Saddam's dictatorship, add up to almost half a century of torture for the Iraqi people. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z President Bush claimed Saddam was continuing to stockpile and manufacture WMDs and that Iraq was part of an international "axis of evil", along with Iran and North Korea. Why did the US and allies invade Iraq, 20 years ago? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z First it became clear that the invasion was predicated on false intelligence that then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was colluding with Al Qaeda and stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Commentary: Iraq is the war no one wants to remember. As an Iraqi American, I can never forget 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z A day after the Firdos Square statue was taken down, Kurds pulled down a Saddam statue in the northern city of Kirkuk. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Tariq Aziz had good reasons to fear for his life, and the lives of his loved ones, if he ran afoul of Saddam. The urbanity of evil: 20 years after the Iraq invasion, the lies continue 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Saddam Hussein had been a thorn in America's side ever since he sent his army into Kuwait in 1990. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z "They were worried about Iran getting control of Iraq after the fall of Saddam's regime." Why did the US and allies invade Iraq, 20 years ago? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, toppling the despot Saddam Hussein and fomenting a kind of hell that Iraq is still grappling with today. Column: The 20th anniversary of the Iraq war also marks a colossal failure of the mainstream media 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z In Baghdad, the biggest Shiite neighborhood had long been named Saddam City. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z It marked the start of the US and UK-led invasion of the country and the removal of leader Saddam Hussein. The Iraq War: Five voices from Wales, 20 years on 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Without any evidence, the Americans tried to manufacture a link between Saddam and al-Qaeda when none existed. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The UK's then-Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said it was "beyond doubt" that Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce WMD. Why did the US and allies invade Iraq, 20 years ago? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The last person to be so glorified was Saddam Hussein, the dictator deposed and killed in the American-led invasion of Iraq that began almost exactly 20 years ago. In the U.S.-Led Iraq War, Iran Was the Big Winner 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Saddam, who brutally crushed any dissent among Iraq’s Shiites, intentionally put a giant, colorful mural of himself in a main part of the district. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z "We were in the transition phase for the country where, yes, Saddam had gone, but how's the country now going to operate?" The Iraq War: Five voices from Wales, 20 years on 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The president's father, George HW Bush, decided not to remove Saddam from power in Baghdad after the Iraqi occupiers were driven out of Kuwait by an international coalition assembled by the US in 1991. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Both men later said they had fabricated their evidence because they wanted the allies to invade and oust Saddam. Why did the US and allies invade Iraq, 20 years ago? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Back then, people were frequently persecuted by Saddam Hussein’s tyrannical regime. Opinion | The Iraq War helped destroy what it meant to be an Iraqi 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z They are also the father-in-law and father, respectively, of Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand cleric whose militia that battled the U.S. occupation after Saddam’s fall. Once everywhere, Saddam’s image scrubbed from Baghdad 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z The Bush administration sold a false bill of goods to justify its “preemptive” intervention against the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Analysis | 20 years later, U.S. invasion of Iraq hangs over war in Ukraine 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The weapons of mass destruction that Tony Blair insisted, eloquently, made Saddam a clear and present danger, turned out not to exist. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Saddam Hussein was later captured, tried and executed. Why did the US and allies invade Iraq, 20 years ago? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Was it over, as the administration heavily implied, suspicions that Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s leader, had been involved in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which also proved false? 20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade? 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z As Iraq marks the 20th anniversary on Monday of the American-led invasion that toppled the dictator Saddam Hussein, an army of ghosts haunts the living. 20 Years After U.S. Invasion, Iraq Is a Freer Place, but Not a Hopeful One 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z What had started with the United States’ aerial assault and invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, became an occupation, a war against an insurgency, and then a sectarian civil war. In Photos: The Iraq War 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z In Saddam's last decade as leader, the vast majority of them had been impoverished by sanctions authorised by the UN, but driven hardest by the US and UK. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Half of today’s population isn’t old enough to remember life under Saddam Hussein. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It urged President Bill Clinton to “aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power.” 20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade? 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z “It’s a pity. We always wanted to get rid of Saddam,” he said. 20 Years After U.S. Invasion, Iraq Is a Freer Place, but Not a Hopeful One 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z American soldiers inside a palace that belonged to Uday Saddam Hussein, one of the ruler’s sons, in Baghdad on April 10. In Photos: The Iraq War 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Unwittingly, the Americans turned the balance of power in Iraq in Iran's favour by overthrowing Saddam Hussein, who was considered a Sunni bulwark against the Islamic Republic. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z In interviews from Baghdad to Fallujah, young Iraqis deplored the chaos that followed Saddam’s ouster, but many were hopeful about nascent freedoms and opportunities. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Al-Qaida in Iraq, a militant Sunni movement that attracts some of Saddam’s former Baathist security forces, leads the insurgency. Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Conversations begin with bitterness that the ouster of Saddam left the country broken and ripe for violence and exploitation by sectarian militias, politicians and criminals bent on self-enrichment or beholden to other nations. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z "I can’t believe that this belonged to Saddam and now I'm the one moving around it," he said. Saddam's rusting yacht serves as picnic spot for Iraqi fishermen 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It is a sign of how bad the past 20 years have been that Saddam nostalgia is well established in Iraq, not just among his own Sunni community. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z His companion agrees: “Saddam was a dictator, but the people were living better, peacefully.” 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z March 20, 2003: The invasion is launched, and Baghdad is attacked with missiles and bombs in an attempt to target Saddam Hussein and bring down the government. Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Secular young people say that unlike their parents who lived under Saddam, they’re not afraid to make their voices heard. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Saddam issued orders for the yacht, which he never boarded, to leave its mooring at Umm Qasr to Basra for safekeeping a few weeks after the invasion got underway on March 20, 2003. Saddam's rusting yacht serves as picnic spot for Iraqi fishermen 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Regime officials I knew could not believe that Saddam's dictatorship had survived. Two decades on, how the UK/US-led invasion turbo-charged Iraq into chaos 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z Bolton's belief that removing Saddam was worth the eventual cost is not held by many current and former officials. U.S. grapples with forces unleashed by Iraq invasion 20 years later 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z April 9, 2003: American troops storm Baghdad, and the statue of Saddam is toppled in Firdous Square in a symbolic collapse of his government. Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Unlike other Shiite politicians who fled during the Saddam era, he never left Iraq, even when his father and five brothers were executed. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z In the turmoil that followed Saddam’s downfall, the yacht was stripped bare and looted, with everything from its chandeliers and furniture to parts of its metal structure removed. Saddam's rusting yacht serves as picnic spot for Iraqi fishermen 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z In the interview with Reuters, Bremer defended his decision, saying the army, which consisted of Saddam's soldiers, had attacked the Kurds and the Shi'ites, and so preserving the force would have risked a civil war. Iraqi ambush of Americans made a mockery of 'Mission Accomplished' 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z "It was worth it because the decision was not simply: 'Does Saddam pose a WMD threat in 2003?'" he said. U.S. grapples with forces unleashed by Iraq invasion 20 years later 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z January 2005: Iraqis select a new parliament in the first elections since the fall of Saddam. Timeline of events: 20 years since U.S.-led invasion of Iraq 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z His portraits, and those of his ayatollah father, killed by gunmen in Saddam’s time, loom large. 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z One of three yachts owned by Saddam, the yacht could accommodate up to 200 guests and was equipped with a helipad. Saddam's rusting yacht serves as picnic spot for Iraqi fishermen 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Under Saddam Hussein's repressive rule, Sunnis in Falluja and across Iraq had been the main beneficiaries of official patronage in business, government posts and the army, while Shi'ites were sidelined. Iraqi ambush of Americans made a mockery of 'Mission Accomplished' 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Sadr led an armed insurgency against the U.S. occupation of Iraq after American and international troops toppled Saddam. Factbox: Who has run Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion? 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Despite having said he supported invading Iraq at the time, Trump now called the Iraq War “a big fat mistake” and criticized the Bush administration as lying about Saddam Hussein’s having weapons of mass destruction. A Republican ‘civil war’ on Ukraine erupts as Reagan’s example fades 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z His companion echoes him: “Saddam was a dictator, but the people were living better, peacefully.” 20 years after U.S. invasion, young Iraqis see signs of hope 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z But he says ridding the nation of Saddam has just created anarchy for others to bleed the country dry. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Saddam, the noose around his neck, responded: “Is this what you call manhood?” Factbox: Iraq War: quotes from the conflict and its aftermath 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z When Saddam was executed in 2006, witnesses taunted him by chanting Moqtada’s name as he was led to the gallows, leaked footage showed. Factbox: Who has run Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion? 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The invasion was based on what turned out to be faulty claims that Saddam Hussein had secretly stashed weapons of mass destruction. Why US troops remain in Iraq 20 years after ‘shock and awe’ 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Bush had been criticised across the Middle East for his decision to oust Saddam Hussein, an action launched based on faulty U.S. intelligence that the Iraqi leader had amassed weapons of mass destruction. No regrets from the Iraqi who threw his shoes at Bush 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z "During the Baathist regime, there was one family stealing the country's wealth. Now there are thousands of Saddams stealing," he said. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z "I was dancing like crazy and couldn't believe Saddam was gone. I felt like a bird unleashed from a cage," Amer said. Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Iraq’s Sunnis dominated the country under Saddam, himself a Sunni. Factbox: Who has run Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion? 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Saddam was toppled from power, and America’s war shifted the country’s governing base from minority Arab Sunnis to majority Shiites, with Kurds gaining their own autonomous region. Why US troops remain in Iraq 20 years after ‘shock and awe’ 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Tens of thousands of Iraqis were killed by Saddam's forces during his rule. Two decades after Saddam's fall, Iraqis still haunted by disappearances 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z After Saddam's overthrow, Kurds carved out a semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq, attracting oil and gas investment. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z He had deserted from the army during Saddam's war with Iran in the 1980s. Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Seven of his brothers were among those killed in the security sweep after the attempt on Saddam's life as his convoy passed by. 'Every victim of Saddam Hussein was waiting for this moment' 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z While many Iraqis welcomed Saddam’s ouster, they were disappointed when the government failed to restore basic services and the ongoing battles instead brought vast humanitarian suffering. Why US troops remain in Iraq 20 years after ‘shock and awe’ 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The forensic efforts are complemented by archivists studying stacks of documents from Saddam's Baath Party, which was disbanded after his overthrow, for the names of missing persons yet to be identified. Two decades after Saddam's fall, Iraqis still haunted by disappearances 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Under Saddam's rule minorities were tolerated and not singled out for their religious beliefs, but were oppressed if they opposed the government. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z He grew a long beard and worked as a farmer to avoid detection by Saddam's security forces. Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z A video from the trial showed Haidari standing with Saddam behind him and telling the judges: "He is responsible for my detention, for losing my future, for executing my brothers". 'Every victim of Saddam Hussein was waiting for this moment' 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z "We would have invaded Iraq if Saddam Hussein had a rubber band and a paperclip," says Mr Rueda. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Dozens of mass graves were found, testimony to atrocities committed under Saddam's Baath Party. Two decades after Saddam's fall, Iraqis still haunted by disappearances 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z After the fall of Saddam, they were targeted by Islamists for their religious beliefs and labelled apostates or devil worshippers. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z He took another risk in 1990-1991, when Saddam's forces invaded neighbour Kuwait, a move that turned Iraq into a pariah. Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z When he was sentenced, Saddam shouted: "Long live the people. Long live the nation. Down with the agents." 'Every victim of Saddam Hussein was waiting for this moment' 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z This person claimed Saddam's programmes were being restarted and promised to deliver new details soon. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z After the toppling of Saddam Hussein in the U.S.-led invasion of 2003, Iran deepened its political, security and economic influence in Iraq, sparking Saudi alarm. Factbox: Middle East flashpoints that could be affected by Saudi-Iran deal 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Khalid Aloka lived through Saddam's brutal rule but nothing prepared him for the slaughter of his community in the years after his downfall. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z President George W. Bush and his generals promised to deliver a thriving democracy and prosperous economy - a sharp contrast to Saddam's rule when innocent people were tortured and killed and billions of petrodollars were squandered. Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Iraq was plunged into turmoil after Saddam, a Sunni Muslim, was toppled. 'Every victim of Saddam Hussein was waiting for this moment' 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z It was likely some of the new sources were making information up for money or because they wanted to see Saddam overthrown. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z It led to a Welsh newspaper poll ridiculously placing him as the second most-hated man in the world between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. Wales aim to avoid new world ranking low in Rome 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z She wanted to be part of a democracy to follow Saddam's fall and agreed to be part of the interim government. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z "Before the invasion, there was just one Saddam. Today there are many more." Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Mind you, they also told serial whoppers about Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's nonexistent ties to the al-Qaeda terror group and his supposedly active biological and nuclear weapons programs. When we were Vladimir Putin: The American war from hell, 20 years later 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z In January 2003, I met a defector from Saddam's intelligence service in Jordan. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z The attack crushes the Iraqi military and chases Saddam from power in a span of weeks. U.S.-led Iraq war ushered in years of chaos and conflict 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z But still believes Iraq is better off without Saddam. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z He took the bodies and buried them next day in the Shi'ite city of Najaf and set up a funeral tent right at the same spot he celebrated Saddam’s demise in 2003. Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z He was in Baghdad on Tuesday on an unannounced visit, days before the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. US defense secretary: Egypt partnership ‘essential pillar’ 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z But they had done so near one of Saddam's palaces, and they feared that owning up to this fact would have got them killed by the Iraqi leader. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that removed longtime dictator Saddam from power, Iraq has been a point of friction between the United States and Iran. US defense secretary makes unannounced visit to Baghdad 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Sarhan does not miss the repression, wars and sanctions of Saddam's era, but she longs for the tight security he imposed. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Amer said he is still determined to leave Iraq, two decades after U.S. troops and Iraqis pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein in central Baghdad. Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The 2003 invasion of Iraq ousted the longstanding dictator Saddam Hussein and led to a brutal insurgency against U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies. U.S. Defense Secretary Affirms Support for Iraq on Baghdad Visit 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z He defended his decision both as a matter of principle in terms of the need to deal with Saddam Hussein, but also because of the need to maintain the UK's relationship with the US. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit on Tuesday to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, just days before the 20th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin makes unannounced visit to Baghdad 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z She said her sister and cousins were executed under Saddam not because of their religious views but because of their political leanings and activism. Iraqis recount their struggles after Saddam Hussein's fall 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z "I was in hiding under Saddam's regime, and now I'm in hiding again," he said. Saddam Hussein fell. Then violence in Iraq spiralled 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The book discusses in forensic detail the process that led to the decision to topple Saddam Hussein, occupy Iraq and assume direct responsibility for the post-Hussein transition. Review | How power, fear and hubris drove the 2003 invasion of Iraq 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z He says a confirmation bias led government experts to listen to fragments of information which supported the idea that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, and discount any that did not. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that removed long-time dictator Saddam from power, Iraq has been a point of friction between the United States and Iran. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin makes unannounced visit to Baghdad 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z During Saddam Hussein’s rule, Jotheri said, the foreign archeologists who did come were under strict monitoring by a suspicious government in Baghdad, limiting their contacts with locals. Ancient restaurant highlights Iraq’s archeology renaissance 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z “We don’t have much choice but to live together … and let our democratic election take place to represent our values,” said Rashid, a veteran Kurdish politician and former water minister after Saddam’s ouster. Iraqi president says country now peaceful, life is returning 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z In 2003, the financial reserves of Saddam Hussein’s government were confiscated and used to help rebuild that war-torn nation. Ukraine’s richest man pursues his own battle with Kremlin over losses 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z It is worth remembering that Saddam did once have weapons of mass destruction. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Since then, the United States returned to fight Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein; in Afghanistan, clear, limited war aims were never stated. Opinion | Ukraine and its allies must decide on an endgame — and then get there 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The central government's strained relations with the Kurds -- often part of Iraq's political landscape since Saddam Hussein was toppled in the 2003 invasion -- could hamper Sudani's efforts after a long period of paralysis. Iraq PM risks new crisis as tensions with Kurds resurface 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “It should have been controlled right from the beginning. It should have been studied and planned out right from the beginning. I think the myth was that once Saddam is removed, Iraq becomes heaven.” Iraqi president says country now peaceful, life is returning 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z “The coming 18 months, however, may be the most strategically significant in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein,” it added, putting that in boldface. From George to Barack: A Look at Secret Bush Memos to the Obama Team 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z A few weeks before the 2003 war, I visited the village of Halabja in Northern Iraq, and heard locals describe the day in 1988 when Saddam's army had dropped chemical weapons on them. How the search for Iraq's secret weapons fell apart 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, when Iraq was under U.S.-led trade sanctions aimed at its dictator, Saddam Hussein, Baghdad residents cut down trees for fuel. Baghdad Loses Green Space to Real Estate Boom 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Born in Baghdad to a Kurdish family, Mr. Zahawi came to Britain at age 11, when his parents fled the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. U.K. Prime Minister Ousts Top Party Official 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z However, when Saddam Hussein came to power in the late 1970s, they came under threat. Who is Nadhim Zahawi? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z And it has deepened anti-American sentiment among politicians in Iraq, which remains unstable nearly 20 years after a U.S.-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein. Analysis: Iraqi PM walks diplomatic tightrope in crackdown on dollars smuggled to Iran 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Relations between Shiite-dominated Iraq and the other Gulf countries, which are mostly Sunni, had been essentially frozen for almost a decade after the U.S. invasion toppled the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003. Stampede Outside Soccer Stadium in Iraq Leaves at Least One Dead 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z That was the justification for the United States’ 1991 repulsion of Saddam Hussein’s invasion of monarchical Kuwait. Opinion | How to shield Ukraine from America’s culture wars 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, Iraq has only played three competitive matches on home turf. Soccer fans hopeful ahead of Gulf Cup in Iraqi city of Basra 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z He chronicled the 1991 U.S.-led war to oust Iraqi forces from Kuwait and Saddam Hussein’s withering attacks to put down internal uprisings by Shiites and Kurds challenging his Sunni Muslim-led regime in Baghdad. Milton Viorst, writer who explored Mideast affairs, dies at 92 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z When Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, his government captured hundreds of foreign citizens to deter Western powers from intervening. In Hostage Diplomacy, It’s Often the Hostage-Takers Who Pay 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z When Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, his government captured hundreds of foreign nationals to deter Western powers from intervening. In Hostage Diplomacy, It’s Often the Hostage-Takers Who Pay 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z As the political climate under Saddam Hussein grew increasingly dangerous, she needed to get out of Iraq. Review | In Dunya Mikhail’s ‘The Bird Tattoo,’ Iraqi women are sold as slaves 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The stakes are high for the Kurds, who were big winners from the downfall of Saddam Hussein. An assassination, a feud and the fight for power in Iraq's Kurdistan 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Saddam Hussein and other regional leaders used poison gas, airstrikes and other tools of mass slaughter over the decades to suppress the Kurds. Turkish strikes on US Kurd allies resonate in Ukraine war 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z He remained fiercely political, outspoken in his support of the Persian Gulf War, and created a stir when he compared Saddam Hussein of Iraq to Hitler. Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Leading Light in German Letters, Dies at 93 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The Bush administration led the invasion of Iraq, which toppled longtime dictator Saddam Hussein but led to decades of death, chaos and violence there. Bush calls Zelenskyy ‘tough dude,’ says Ukraine can win 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Abdullah is the grandson of Saddam’s half-brother Sabaawi Ibrahim who was sentenced to death by an Iraqi court in 2009 and remained in prison until he died of cancer four years later. Lawyer: Saddam’s relative has no role in IS killings in Iraq 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Many speculated the former mid-level Khmer Rouge commander would feature his own mug on the timepiece in the narcissistic vein of autocratic leaders in the past, like Iraq’s Saddam Hussein or Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. Watches, daggers and cricket ice cream: Asian summit treats 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Every previous prime minister since the U.S. invasion had lived in exile when Saddam Hussein held power and then had returned after he was toppled, but Mr. Sudani remained in Iraq. Iraqi Parliament Approves New Government After a Yearlong Delay 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Another historical reference point: Forty-two years ago, Saddam Hussein sent his army into Iran, expecting little resistance and easy territorial gains, only to see the invasion stall. Opinion | Putin is in Ukraine for the long haul. We must be, too. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The United States had just toppled the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, and its power seemed unmatched. Richard Haass to Step Down as Council on Foreign Relations Chief 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Two years later he was in Iraq, where he fought in Falluja, hunted down members of Saddam Hussein’s government and briefed intelligence and State Department officers on the deteriorating war. New Generation of Combat Vets, Eyeing House, Strike From the Right 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z He said that the area where the house is located was chosen as the site for an opera house under former president Saddam Hussein and up until 2015. Baghdad's historic homes crumble as real estate booms 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The Kurdish community had already taken root in Nashville when Nawzad Hawrami and his wife arrived in 1997, part of an evacuation of Kurds from northern Iraq as Saddam Hussein’s forces moved in. Building a New Life in an Unlikely Migrant Destination 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z There is no moral equivalence between democratic Ukraine’s resistance to Putin and the fight by theocratic Iran against Saddam. Opinion | Putin is in Ukraine for the long haul. We must be, too. 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Saddam Hussein was a murderous, kleptocratic war criminal, just like Putin. Opinion | Why a negotiated peace with Putin is the safest way out 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z An editorial cartoon described in a campaign dispatch by the Times depicted Saddam Hussein gazing at himself and asking, “Magic mirror on the wall, who’s the most hated and feared leader of them all?” Jim Florio, New Jersey congressman and governor, dies at 85 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein launched a bloody eight-year war on Iran in which 1 million people were killed. Analysis: Latest Iran protests likely not last for Tehran 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z It also explores how “groupthink” at the agency led to the assumption that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, an intelligence failure that led to the Iraq War. The CIA renovated its museum. The public still can’t go see it. 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z It is the only place a visitor can see the gun found with Osama bin Laden when he was killed next to Saddam Hussein's leather jacket. CIA museum: Inside the world's most top secret museum 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Navy SEALs killed him in a raid of his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound in 2011, and a leather jacket found with former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein when he was captured in 2003. U.S. CIA's in-house museum adds new spy exhibits 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z But it ushered in decades of instability, culminating in Saddam Hussein’s brutal rule and wars with his neighbors. Queen’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The most serious test of his skill and stamina came in January 1991, when he arrived in Baghdad hoping for an interview with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whose forces had invaded Kuwait. Bernard Shaw, unflappable founding anchor at CNN, dies at 82 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Eskander, the historian, said Iraq’s instability can be traced back to before Saddam was toppled, when it lost control of some of its borders and territory in the Iran-Iraq war. With Government Paralyzed and Militias Fighting, Iraq’s Instability Deepens 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z In that case, perhaps spurred by his obsession with Saddam Hussein, Bush was assertive, forceful and opportunistic in creating a coalition with a purpose — everything that was missing in his response to the Soviet Union. Gorbachev and Bush: The world's massive missed opportunity for peace 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z And when Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, you realize you’re not safe and you have to start over again. Comedian Mo Amer knows the joy and pain of life as a Palestinian refugee in Texas 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z The U.S.-led invasion in 2003, in which Britain was a key participant, removed Saddam but plunged Iraq into chaos from which it has yet to fully emerge. Queen’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Sistani, who has intervened decisively at crucial moments in Iraq's history since the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, has no obvious successor. How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The enemy, whether Saddam Hussein or Vladimir Putin, is always the epitome of evil, the new Hitler. Ukraine, media censorship and the ruthless politics of permanent war 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Context: Iraq is a majority Shiite country, but Shiites faced years of harsh repression under Saddam Hussein. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Members of Iraq’s majority Shiite Muslim population were oppressed when Saddam Hussein ruled the country for decades. EXPLAINER: What spurred the bloody armed clashes in Baghdad? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Still, Iraqis of a certain age credit Britain with helping to establish education and health systems that were the envy of the region before Saddam’s catastrophic rule. Queen’s reign saw British leave Mideast with a mixed legacy 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Iraq has had years of turmoil: It has suffered instability and seen the growth of powerful armed groups since 2003, when dictator Saddam Hussein was overthrown by a US-led invasion. Iraq: Tense calm in Baghdad after cleric issues appeal 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Foreign oil investors first came to Kurdistan in the era of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, when the region was considered more stable and secure than the rest of Iraq. EXCLUSIVE Iraqi Kurdistan's oil output could halve without investment - documents 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z This time, the fighting is among the Shi’ite majority that has ruled Iraq since the 2003 U.S. invasion which toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein. Rockets land in Baghdad's Green Zone after day of clashes - army 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z The 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam, a Sunni, reversed the political order. EXPLAINER: What spurred the bloody armed clashes in Baghdad? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z His Mehdi Army emerged as one of the most powerful militias which fought US and allied Iraqi government forces in the aftermath of the invasion which toppled former ruler Saddam Hussein. Moqtada al-Sadr: At least 15 dead amid fighting in Iraqi capital 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z This gives them the same sense of being undressed, caught in an embarrassing moment of revelation, like the toppled statue of Saddam Hussein. Review | In Philadelphia, a monument to end all monuments 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Iraq's 10-month standoff since the election is the longest stretch without a fully functioning government in the nearly two decades since Saddam Hussein was overthrown in a U.S.-led in 2003. Iraq's judiciary suspends activities as cleric Sadr fuels political crisis 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, approached these oil-producing states for assistance, particularly Saudi Arabia and neighboring Kuwait, which Iraq felt directly benefited from its war with Iran. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Kuwait and the U.S. have had a close military partnership since America launched the 1991 Gulf War to expel Iraqi troops after Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invaded the country. US Air Force targeted in ‘propaganda attack’ in Kuwait 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Remember that, in the lead-up to war there, Americans were hammered with fearful and deceptive political messaging, emphasizing that only an invasion could stop that country's ruler, Saddam Hussein, from having WMD. Truth-telling, confession and first-class lies: Is moral clarity possible in Donald Trump’s America? 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Following the 2003 U.S. invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, there was a civil war, and then the takeover of large parts of the country by the Islamic State. A Power Struggle in Iraq Intensifies, Raising Fears of New Violence 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z Cheney said in 2002 that he was “convinced that Saddam will acquire nuclear weapons fairly soon”; U.S. intelligence said that was nearly a decade away. Opinion | Liz Cheney’s demise was set in motion by her father 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z He had alienated conservative Republicans by breaking his pledge not to raise taxes, and some faulted him for failing to remove Saddam Hussein from power during Operation Desert Storm. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z They were secular activists, and they had planned their own protest in a place etched in the annals of the American invasion: Firdoos Square, where U.S. troops once pulled down a statue of Saddam Hussein. Baghdad gripped by protests as political rivals vie for power 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Under Saddam Hussein, it became a center for Shiite resistance. In Baghdad’s Sadr City, cleric’s support underpins protests 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Friday's prayer took place at the famous Baghdad parade ground which stretches between two vast crossed sword arches, built under Saddam in the 1980s to commemorate the Iran-Iraq war. Followers of Iraq's Sadr pray at Saddam-era parade ground 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Under Saddam Hussein, the area became a center for Shiite resistance. In Baghdad’s Sadr City, cleric’s support underpins protests 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The Iraqis needed weapons, and the Reagan administration, wishing to assist the enemy of its enemy, had agreed to provide Iraqi president Saddam Hussein with money, arms, and military intelligence. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z “This whole system was built on a mistake,” said Najad al-Iraqi, an activist, who said he had not voted in a single election since Saddam’s fall. Baghdad gripped by protests as political rivals vie for power 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z The U.S. had just invaded Iraq, citing later-debunked claims of Saddam Hussein hiding weapons of mass destruction. Analysis: Iran now speaking openly on nuclear bomb prospects 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Blair broke with many European leaders to support U.S.-led contentions — contradicting U.N. arms inspectors — that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction. Christopher Meyer, British envoy to U.S. amid buildup to Iraq War, dies at 78 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Critics accuse the cleric of using his followers as pawns by evoking the legacy of his father, Mohamed Sadeq al-Sadr a highly respected Shiite religious figure killed by Saddam’s regime in the 1990s. In Baghdad’s Sadr City, cleric’s support underpins protests 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations, and American attempts to foster internal revolts against President Saddam Hussein’s government, had further tainted the relationship. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Sadr led an armed insurgency against the U.S. occupation of Iraq after American and international troops toppled Sunni Muslim dictator Saddam Hussein. Factbox: Iraq’s competing Shi’ite groups 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The Sadrists have called for new elections and an end to the political system that has existed since the U.S.-led invasion which toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein. Baghdad braces for clashes as rival camps to stage protests 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Many of these groups’ ties to Tehran date to the Iran-Iraq war, when Iran supported Shi’ite insurgents against Saddam. Explainer: What's driving the power struggle in Iraq? 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Demonstrators demanded the removal of parties that have been in power since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein, accusing them of rampant corruption that has stopped Iraq moving forward. Deadlock gives Iraq record run without government, hampering reforms 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Blix argued that while Saddam Hussein was not being entirely forthright, he did not appear to be in possession of WMDs. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z He inherited a mass following of mostly impoverished Shi’ites from his cleric father who opposed Saddam and was killed for it. Factbox: Iraq’s competing Shi’ite groups 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z On social media, a trending hashtag referenced a quotation from Saddam Hussein that likened Turkey, unfavorably, to one of Iraq’s other powerful neighbors, Iran. Turkish strike kills at least 8 Iraqi tourists in northern resort 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Conflict among Iraqi Shi’ites would be bad news for Iran, which has carved out major influence in Iraq through its Shi’ite allies since the United States toppled its foe Saddam. Explainer: What's driving the power struggle in Iraq? 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Since Saddam was toppled, Shi'ite parties which represent the country's demographic majority have held the post of prime minister, Kurds the presidency and Sunnis the role of parliament speaker. Deadlock gives Iraq record run without government, hampering reforms 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Claiming that Iraq’s president Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction, perhaps with the intent of attacking the United States, the president sent U.S. troops to Iraq as well in 2003. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Many Iraqis blame those groups for mismanaging the country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein and catapulted Iraq's Shi'ite majority to power. Iraqi cleric Sadr's supporters throng Baghdad streets in show of strength 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The elder al-Sadr had held Friday prayer service in defiance of the Saddam regime in the 1990s. Iraqis arrive to mass prayer in cleric’s show of power 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Three of the most prominent prosecutions — against Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein — were brought against leaders who were out of power; no sitting president has ever been handed over to an international court. The many parties involved complicate war crimes investigations. 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z “It evokes the memory of those who made the sacrifice to give Kuwait its freedom from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.” Planners break ground on Desert Storm memorial, aiming to open in 2024 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z He was a major backer of the 2003 invasion of Iraq that toppled Saddam Hussein. John Bolton said he planned foreign coups. The global outcry was swift. 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z He, too, came to Britain as a refugee, fleeing Saddam Hussein in Iraq at 11 with his family. Hard Truths From Mo Farah Put Spotlight on U.K.’s Hard-line Migration Policy 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr Zahawi said he felt "lucky" to have had his parents with him when they were forced to flee from Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. Sir Mo Farah praised for discussing childhood trafficking trauma 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The association called the Gulf War “a powerful message of international unity and cooperation” when a coalition of forces from almost 40 countries joined together to oppose Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s illegal invasion of Kuwait. Groundbreaking set for Thursday for Desert Storm memorial 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z He was born in Iraq to a Kurdish family and came to the U.K. as a child when his parents fled Iraq under Saddam Hussein. Conservative contenders who could succeed Boris Johnson 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z He was born in Iraq in 1967 and emigrated to Britain with his family in the 1970s when Saddam Hussein came to power. Who are the contenders to lead the Conservative Party if Johnson resigns? 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z |
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