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...keeps his proof of the evil of Saddam’s regime above the television stashed in his closet...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘A War Over Memory’: Reconstructing a Nation’s Identity | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...Kurdish resistance leader gave Makiya the notebook, part of the documentary proof of the genocidal campaign that eliminated between 50,000 and 180,000 Kurdish men, women, and children. During the campaign, carefully planned in advance by Saddam’s regime, innocent civilians were herded together, executed, and dumped in mass graves...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘A War Over Memory’: Reconstructing a Nation’s Identity | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

Afterwards, he obtained scanned copies of 3.2 million pages of official documents seized from Saddam’s regime, and spent the next decade combing through them. The Iraq Research and Documentation Project was painstaking scholarly work, carried out in hopes of finding more proof of Saddam’s crimes, Makiya said. He estimated that 90 percent of the documents were irrelevant, but he kept working through the pages for the few that mattered...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘A War Over Memory’: Reconstructing a Nation’s Identity | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...nothing less than training and funding a shadow army of Shi'ite militants set against U.S. forces in Iraq. In the face of these U.S. assertions, the Iraqi government publicly says it has no evidence of an Iranian training program for Iraqi militants. "We don't have the proof that the American have," says Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. "Normally the intelligence information the Americans have is not allowed to circulate." The issue was also not discussed, al-Dabbagh says, in official talks during Ahmadinejad's recent visit to Baghdad, where the Iranian leader enjoyed a warm reception that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Signs of Iran's Hand in Iraq | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...McCain's trips have not always garnered the kind of publicity he may have liked. In early 2007, as the U.S. troop surge was getting underway, he pointed to his trip to a Baghdad market as proof that it was possible to "walk freely" in Baghdad, and that the media was not providing Americans with a full picture of the situation in Iraq. It was soon revealed that McCain had been accompanied on his market trip by two attack helicopters and dozens of American soldiers, calling into question his grasp of the situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraqis Unmoved by McCain Visit | 3/16/2008 | See Source »

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