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Correct. In fact the museum was closed in September of 1980 when Saddam Hussein invaded Iran and Iran started lobbing missiles into Baghdad. So the museum was closed from that time until opening for a day in 2003 and then until this opening. [It's] only been open fewer than a half dozen times and never open to the general public. The museum itself, in the last several decades has been called Saddam's gift shop by the average Iraqi. (See pictures of treasure hunting in Afghanistan...
...past few weeks, al-Maliki has issued several calls for national reconciliation, even reaching out to former low-level members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, encouraging them to return to mainstream politics. But Iraq isn't a place with short memories. Reconciliation is difficult in a land where the 1,400-year-old Shi'ite-Sunni schism is still very much alive. Gone are the days when some Iraqi men carried three national identification cards - one listing their name as Omar (a predominantly Sunni name), another as Ali (predominantly Shi'ite) and a third as Ammar (which...
...calls to amend the constitution to strengthen the powers of the central government in Baghdad at the expense of Iraq's 18 provinces - including the semiautonomous three-province Kurdish region in the north - have faced fierce pushback from his Kurdish allies, some of whom have called him "the new Saddam." That schism is bound to widen in the coming months, when the U.N. issues its findings over the disputed oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, which Kurds claim as their "Jerusalem" but which Arabs are loath to let go of. (See a TIME photographer's record of the Iraq...
Then there is the Syria connection. Saddam Hussein recruited many of his high-ranking Baath Party members and army generals from Mosul's élite Sunni families, many of whom sought refuge in Syria after the 2003 U.S. invasion and the fall of the dictator. According to several Iraqi generals from the national police and the army, some of these die-hard Saddam loyalists have been funneling funds and fighters - both foreign and Iraqi - across the 185-mile Syrian border with Nineveh...
...problem is that Iraqis don't realize that even if the detainees are transferred to Iraqi courts and prisons, it's not like in the past," says Sgt. Assaad, an Iraqi corrections officer who was monitoring detainee family visitations at Bucca. "Saddam's days are over, torture is over. We will treat everyone based on the law." Maybe that's what some people inside and outside the wire at Camp Bucca are really afraid of. With reporting by Mazin Ezzat