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With its 6-ft-thick walls and squalid cells, the Patarei sea fortress on the edge of Tallinn, capital of the Baltic republic of Estonia, has long borne witness to the brutality of occupation. Built in 1840 by Russian Czar Nicholas I, it was used as a prison and execution...
“This dark page has been turned over,” Iraq’s national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, told Iraqi television immediately after the execution of Saddam Hussein. “Saddam is gone. Today Iraq is an Iraq for all the Iraqis, and all...
Critics of the U.N.-driven approach say that had Saddam, like Slobodan Milosevic, been prosecuted by international lawyers in a third country, his trial would have been too remote to have provided Iraqis any sense of closure. But does anyone feel closure now? Rather than a moment of national reckoning...
"This government is not suitable for Iraq any more," says Salleh al-Muttlag, an Iraqi parliament member. "It should end as soon as possible." The leader of a Sunni opposition bloc, Muttlag has never been high on Maliki. But his call for Maliki's resignation, one of many now rising...
Baghdad isn't the only place where patience for Maliki is wearing thin. While in public President Bush has always expressed support for him, the White House has begun to signal its unease. Even Bush joined the chorus of voices condemning the way Maliki's government handled the execution of...