Word: saddams
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When Ahmed Hassan Mohammed al-Dujaili took the stand as witness No. 1 in the trial of Saddam Hussein last December, he might have thought his worst nightmares were behind him. On a summer afternoon in 1982, two days after gunmen in his town opened fire on a presidential motorcade, Ahmed and all the other males in his family were rounded up by Saddam's Special Republican Guard. Ahmed and three of his 11 brothers were eventually released; the rest disappeared. Two years later, Saddam signed execution orders for six of Ahmed's brothers; a seventh died during interrogation. They...
...themselves: "I'm going to take care of me. I'll worry about my group and my identity." Any vision of the world is sacrificed for that. We've seen it with the war in Iraq. The fear button gets pushed and everyone is like, "Let's go after Saddam Hussein...
...Sitting in his office inside Saddam's old Presidential Palace, Khalilzad couldn't seem farther away from the intense hand-wringing of political strategists in Washington over how the deteriorating situation in Iraq is affecting their poll numbers in the U.S. He admits some Iraqi politicians are nervous that the midterm election results could short-circuit the U.S. commitment to Iraq, but he doesn't see a fundamental change in the approach to Iraq, no matter who controls Congress in January. He could envision minor adjustments being made, "but strategically," says Khalilzad, in an unwrinkled blue shirt...
...hacks like House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are spending their time whining about how we shouldn’t have gone to war in the first place, Ricks accepts the reality that we did, and implicitly points out that there really was no way of ever conclusively knowing whether Saddam had nukes...
...advisors to the court want Saddam in the courtroom to face his accusers. The Regime Crimes Liaison Office (RCLO) that provides training and logistical support to the court "was not happy about Saddam being kicked out," said an Iraqi official. "They would rather see him there all the time." The U.S. embassy does not comment on the private discussions with the court, said spokesman Lou Fintor, adding that "the Iraqi people deserve to see those that committed crimes during the former regime brought to justice." But Saddam hasn't made a friend on the bench. Just before he was ejected...