Word: hussein
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...conservative advocacy group. Supported a constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman and vocally supported President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's management of the war in Iraq. A display case in his office contains pieces of Saddam Hussein's dismantled missiles from the first Gulf...
...revved up a campaign called "Hall Pass on That," urging parents to have their kids excused from watching the speech. In Oklahoma, state senator Steve Russell rivaled Florida's Greer for hyperbole, calling Obama's talk "something you'd expect to see in North Korea or in Saddam Hussein's Iraq...
...year-old wears the black turban of those who claim descent from the Prophet Muhammad. From the age of 9, he would address thousands of Shi'ite faithful at mosques and religious festivals in Iran, where his family was exiled in 1979 by Saddam Hussein's Sunni regime. Al-Hakim was educated in Iran's theological colleges...
...government blamed religious extremists and remnants of the former regime of Saddam Hussein for trying to de-stablize an Iraq that that no longer relies on the U.S. military, which has been relegated to its bases since June 30, as part of the U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement. Furthermore, without naming names, some politicians said Iraq's neighbors are also to blame for allowing fighters to cross the border, if not having a direct hand in the violence - "The dark powers," in the words of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political adviser Sadiq al-Rukabi. "They...
...Minister late last month, as many as 20 officials in the ministry who disapproved of the public airing of confessions by political dissidents were purged, including the deputy minister and chief of counterintelligence. The move, according to Hassan Younesi, the son of a former Intelligence Minister, was engineered by Hussein Taeb and Ahmad Salek, two top Guards commanders. "Never has the Intelligence Ministry witnessed such a politically motivated purge since its establishment," Younesi wrote on his personal blog...