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Saddam’s VP releases videos backing Iraqi protesters
Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, Saddam Hussein’s vice president and the highest-ranking member of his regime still on the run, has backed ongoing rallies in Sunni-majority areas of Iraq in an online video. The 53-minute video, posted on YouTube on Friday, shows Duri reading a prepared statement behind a desk with a…
Iraq executes Saddam’s chief bodyguard and top aide
Iraq on Thursday executed Saddam Hussein’s presidential secretary and chief bodyguard Abid Hamid Mahmud, justice ministry spokesman Haidar al-Saadi said. “He was executed today,” Saadi said, adding: “The ministry of justice implemented the execution sentence against the criminal Abd Hmoud… for genocide,” referring to Mahmud by the name Iraqis call…
British police make arrest over Saddam’s bronze buttock
LONDON — British police arrested a 66-year-old man in connection with part of a bronze statue of Saddam Hussein, a buttock, was illegally brought over from Iraq after the war. He was held on suspicion of breaching the 2003 Iraq Sanctions Order, which bans dealing in “illegally removed Iraqi cultural…
U.S. hands main war base, Saddam palaces back to Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S. military returned its biggest base in Iraq to the government on Friday, a huge compound near Baghdad airport that housed the American war operations centre and hosted a captive Saddam Hussein before his execution. Victory Base Complex, a site ringed by 42 kilometers (27 miles)…
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