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...troops enter Baghdad; Saddam Hussein makes his last public appearance in front of the Abu Hanifa mosque...
...Iraq, Ahmadinejad told TIME his country wants a speedy end to the U.S. occupation, and demanded an internationally sanctioned trial for Saddam Hussein, in addition to the legal proceeding already planned by the Iraqi government. "As for Saddam," the Iranian president said, "There are the crimes he committed inside Iraq, and the government there should try him. But we think there should also be an international court, an international trial...
...Saddam deserves a death sentence 20 times a day because he tried to assassinate me 20 times." JALAL TALABANI, Iraqi President and former Kurdish rebel leader, saying on state TV that ex-dictator Saddam Hussein has confessed in jail to ordering the killing of ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s. Saddam's lawyers later denied the claim...
...Such a scene may have be more reminiscent of Saddam Hussein than of Thomas Jefferson, but Egypt's presidential election on Wednesday may yet signal the twilight of the country's age of dynasties. Nobody expects Mubarak to lose the vote, whether the balloting is honest or has to be rigged in his favor. Despite the inevitability of the result, however, many Egyptians feel the election has breathed new life into Egyptian politics after decades of autocratic rule...
...Nonetheless, many see the election, after the fall of Saddam in 2003 and the Cedar Revolution against Syrian domination of Lebanon this year, as a further crumbling of the edifice that has guarded authoritarian regimes in the Arab world for half a century. They hope that Egyptian elections in November will produce a more representative parliament, and that voters will have a real choice in the next presidential contest, in 2011. After surveying the overflow crowd of 5,000 people at a rally in the northern city of El Mahla El Kobra, Maram Mazen, 19, a law student volunteering with...