US: Saddam's chrome AK-47 being returned to Iraq

Federal customs agents say a pearl-handled AK-47 that belonged to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and was in the hands of the U.S. Army is being sent back to Iraq.

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A Look at AP Photographer Bilal Hussein

Bilal Hussein's career as a photojournalist nearly ended soon after it began. Hussein, who had been working for The Associated Press for about three months, volunteered to stay in his native Fallujah as U.S. forces prepared to assault the city to drive out Sunni religious extremists.

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Giuliani Says Saddam Paying for Offenses

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Friday that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is paying an eternal and deserved punishment for his brutal life's work.

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Poll. Do you honestly think that Barack Hussein Obama is evil?

There have been many posts on Newsvine lately that tap dance around this issue. They complain about Barack's birth certificate and his alleged "death panels" and is he a socialist or a communist or a fascist.

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Now highly unlikely that Oz will pursue criminal charges against the former AWB executives, who helped funnel almost $300 million to Saddam Hussein's regime in breach of United Nations oil for food sanctions.

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The birth cetificate controversy is about Obama's honesty, not where he was born

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A series of interviews and "conversations with US interrogators between February and May 2004" involving Saddam Hussein have been released.

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Flow of stimulus funds still only a trickle

About $53 billion of $479 billion has been disbursed by federal agencies.

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Furious protests threaten to undermine the Iraqi government's controversial plan to give international oil companies a stake in its giant oilfields in a desperate effort to raise declining oil production and revenues.

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On whether Hussein helped al-Qaeda carry out the 2001 terrorist attacks, Cheney said, "I do not believe, and I have never seen any evidence, that he was involved in 9/11."

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Former vice president Richard B. Cheney said yesterday that he strongly disagreed with President Bush's decision not to pardon I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, saying his former chief of staff had been left "hanging in the wind."

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n the mid-1990s, Western intelligence services picked up a fragment of information coming out of Saddam Hussein's Iraq discussing the development of mobile biological weapons production facilities. There were no details or corroborating information.

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Politicians and lies

Ah, the lies we hear from all these politicians...

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On Tuesday at Fort Campbell, President Bush gave encouragement to thousands of soldiers getting ready to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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This election was so extraordinary in so many ways that its meaning will take many years to play out and many more to be understood.

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With the U.S. elections at hand, a victory by John McCain seems unlikely. All of my East Coast-educated American buddies would be angry and aggrieved if McCain managed to pull off an eleventh-hour upset. Being from the Middle East—which is to say, being no fan of George W.

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A super-yacht which was built for Saddam Hussein is on sale for £17 million. The floating palace, originally named Qadissiyat Saddam, after a famous Arab victory over the Persians in 637 AD, was made by Danish shipbuilders in 1981. The yacht was meant to be the sister ship of  …

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The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a videotape showing Barack Obama attending an event in Chicago honoring a Palestinian activist who formerly served as a spokesman for Yasser Arafat.

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An important video presentation that discusses the true nature of Islam and its relationship with Barack Hussein Obama. It utilizes real traditions from their Prophet and full chapters of the Qur'an to explain what is in store for all of us if we don't pay attention.

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Nostalgia: When Saddam Hussein was running Iraq...

When Saddam Hussein was running Iraq:there was electricity 24/7.There was running water 24/7The daily body count was almost nilChristians did not have to fleeIran and the Shiites were not cocky.Western oil companies were making money off Iraqi oil

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McCain allegedly appointing someone to his staff that has involvement with helping Saddam Hussein.

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In "October Surprise", Molotov Mitchell interviews the plaintiff in a stunning federal case against Barack Obama. The case is nothing short of electrifying, but the mainstream media is doing its best to keep Americans in the dark.

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What's in a (Middle) Name?

As Election Day approaches, America is faced with a historic choice between two diametrically opposed candidates: One, campaigning on a platform of strong change in the direction of the country, and the other, campaigning on a platform of slightly-more-subtle-but-still-important  …

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We need answers!

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Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq, Turkey's military says. More Articles

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Another day down the YouTubes for the McCainiacs.

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Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father. "Emily Hussein Nordling," her entry now reads.

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Khaled Hosseini, author or two of my most favorite novels, "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns", gives his opinion on the McCain/Palin campaign's actions of late that have started the firestorm of the angry and hate-filled verbal assault on Barack Obama.

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