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...Iraq, however, the U.S. must not be in a hurry to pull out, despite criticism and pressure. Instead of setting a time limit for eventual withdrawal, the U.S. must make certain Iraq is no longer a danger to the rest of the world and ensure that Saddam Hussein's Baath Party doesn't make a comeback soon after the U.S. leaves. It does not matter if it takes 5, 10 or 20 years to achieve these goals; the time spent will be worthwhile. Ajit Partap Singh Ludhiana, India No Need to Rush News accounts note that now that the Iraqis...
...TRIAL ANNOUNCED. For two of Saddam Hussein's top associates, ALI HASSAN AL-MAJID and BARZAN AL-TIKRITI; in Baghdad. Al-Majid, Hussein's cousin, and al-Tikriti, his half-brother, are the first of 12 senior Hussein allies in American custody to face trial. Al-Majid was implicated in poison-gas attacks against Iraqi Kurds in the late 1980s, for which he was nicknamed "Chemical Ali," and al-Tikriti is alleged to have overseen the 1982 razing of a village north of Baghdad. The trials will be broadcast live worldwide this spring from Baghdad...
...security of its regime. Iran's primary enemies - Israel and the U.S. - have nuclear capability, as does regional rival Pakistan. And the Iranian government is believed to have begun its nuclear quest in earnest during the 1980s, when the country was locked in mortal combat with Iraq - and Saddam Hussein had made no secret of his own nuclear ambitions...
However, Sharansky warned that the free world quickly forgot the lesson learned in the Soviet Union. He pointed to U.S. support for Saddam Hussein and Yassir Arafat in recent decades...
Kids in the street. Of all the improbable images from Iraq's historic election day, none captured the mood of the nation better than the sight of children flying out into the open. There have been times since the fall of Saddam Hussein when Iraq's cities have seemed childless, as parents have tried to shield their kids from kidnappers, gun battles and car bombs. And yet on Jan. 30, widely predicted to be the most dangerous day since the end of the war--so dangerous that the government banned vehicular traffic--the streets seemed to be overrun...