Word: dictatorship
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...allowed the U.S. to turn the tables on the critics of the war. Coalition forces now have the blessings of those who lost family members to the arrogant sons of the dislodged dictator. As the war continues against evil, ridding the world of the horrible and tyrannical claws of dictatorship will be counted as a remarkable deed. As far as the victimized people of Iraq are concerned, their score with the vicious sons of Saddam is settled. AHMAD MASOOD AZRAQ Malmo, Sweden...
...Past ARGENTINA The Senate approved legislation revoking amnesties for military officers accused of torturing and murdering opponents during the country's "Dirty War" two decades ago. Human rights groups claim that about 1,000 officials - implicated in the murder of as many as 30,000 people during the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 - could be prosecuted as a result. With President Nestor Kirchner in favor of sweeping away the protection, only the Supreme Court could stand in the way of future convictions. Safe and Sand MALI Fourteen hostages were freed after being held for up to six months...
...supported the war in iraq. If no weapons are found, will the war be considered justified? First, the war was important to liberate the country from a dictatorship that existed for more than 30 years. Second, I stated in press conferences that weapons of mass destruction would not be found. This is on the basis of logical reasoning. If I was in the position of President Saddam Hussein, I would have made these arms vanish, either by destroying them or sending them out of the country...
According to the interrogator, Scott Schneider, Barzan proclaimed on several occasions, sometimes banging his fist on a folding table, "I spoke out against the regime." He demanded a search for documents that he said would prove his resistance to Saddam's dictatorship. Barzan had fled before the U.S. dropped six smart bombs on his luxurious compound 70 miles west of Baghdad, and was then turned in to American forces by an informer. Yet Schneider, an IRS criminal investigator based in Pensacola, Fla., told TIME that he displayed no ill will toward the U.S. Vain and concerned about his appearance, Barzan...
...time to reassess our policy toward a military dictatorship that has repeatedly attacked democracy and jailed its heroes." COLIN POWELL, Secretary of State, in an op-ed column on the repression of dissidents by the military junta that rules Myanmar, the former Burma...