Saddam Hussein

By Marwan Bishara in Imperium on February 16th, 2012

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By Teymoor Nabili in Americas on September 11th, 2010
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From Yahoo News:

Iraq has quietly agreed to pay $400 million in claims to American citizens who say they were tortured or traumatized by Saddam Hussein's regime.

From The New York Times:

By Marwan Bishara in Imperium on May 28th, 2010
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As the Obama administration introduces its new foreign policy doctrine this week, it's worth reminding ourselves that the greater Middle East region is central to US strategy today just as it has been over the last half a century.

After a decade of US blunders in Iraq and Afghanistan under the guise of the "global war on terror", President Obama's overall commitment to "engagement" with other world emerging powers like China and India,  and support for multilateralism contrasts sharply with his predecessor's desire to "go it alone" when possible, along with others only if necessary.

Over the last year, the Obama administration has changed the bombastic language of the Bush administration.

By Omar Chatriwala in Middle East on March 5th, 2010

The al-Rahman mosque

The al-Rahman mosque stands far from completed in western Baghdad's Mansour district.

Started in 1998 under Saddam Hussein's rule, the mosque was due to be completed by 2004. Those plans were, however, cut short by the US-led invasion of 2003.

It was supposed to be one of the largest mosques in the country, if not the world - and a tribute to Saddam's power. Here's a photo that gives greater perspective.

Excerpting a Christian Science Monitor article from 2003:

By Kristen Saloomey in Americas on February 27th, 2010
photo from AFP

 The United Nations Security Council has taken a step toward ending economic sanctions on Iraq which go back nearly two decades to the rule of Saddam Hussein.

By John Terrett in Americas on December 8th, 2009
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In London on Tuesday the British public inquiry into the Iraq war heard a staggering revelation. 
 
A taxi driver, peddling fares along Iraq's border with Jordan, was the one who told British intelligence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction capable of hitting Britain in less than an hour's flying time from Baghdad.
 
And they believed him!
 
We know this because the claim turned up in a 2002 so-called "dodgy" dossier that was partly used to justify Britain joining the U.S. led invasion of Iraq six months later.
By Zeina Khodr in Middle East on December 5th, 2009
Photo from EPA

When you see Iraqi policemen salute the grave of Saddam Hussein, you start to realize how much more needs to be achieved before Iraq is on the road to true peace and stability. There are Iraqis who long for the past, especially in Tikrit, the hometown of the late Iraqi leader.

A few moments later, a family arrived at the gravesite which has become a shrine for many. A woman kissed Saddam's grave and cried out: "Abu Oday, where are you? I wish you were here. Since you have been gone, we have been humiliated."

No doubt there are many in Iraq who are glad that Saddam is no longer in power. But there are those who have lost faith in that future and call out for the past.

saddam_grave1[1]-270.jpgThe upcoming election is supposed to shape Iraq's future, but there are those who lost faith.

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