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Iraq's government has banned all organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave in the village of Ouja, the dictator's birth place north of Baghdad.
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime minister.
A former top deputy of Saddam Hussein has said he wants good ties with the United States, but only after U.S. troops leave and the Shiite-led government is toppled, according to an audiotape aired Tuesday.
Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht will be towed from Greece to a port in southern Iraq after the resolution of a legal dispute over its ownership, the Iraqi government said Tuesday.
Iraq says it has decided to sell Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht after winning a legal dispute over its ownership.
As bombs fell on Baghdad one night during the first Persian Gulf War, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's bodyguards banged on Dr. Ala Bashir's door.
Iraqi railway officials say Saddam Hussein's personal luxury train will return to service next month.
A fugitive former deputy to Saddam Hussein predicts U.S. troops will leave Iraq by the end of next year, according to an audio recording broadcast Tuesday by Al-Arabiya television.
Saddam Hussein's former deputy has vowed that loyalists to the deposed dictator will continue fighting until the U.S. withdraws from Iraq, according to an interview published Monday.
Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings.
For sale: A palatial pleasure yacht with swimming pools, opulent salons and, should the winds of war blow, a rocket launcher and mini-submarine.
Saddam Hussein allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction to deter rival Iran and did not think the United States would stage a major invasion, according to an FBI interrogator who questioned the Iraqi leader after his capture.
About 2,000 Jordanians demonstrated in the capital Saturday to commemorate Saddam Hussein a year after the former Iraqi leader's execution.
Hundreds of people brought unlit candles and flowers to Saddam Hussein's tomb on Saturday to mark what would have been his 70th birthday.
Saddam Hussein's former chief lawyer said Sunday he plans to publish a book in the coming year disclosing secret information about the executed Iraqi leader.
The boys' deaths — scattered in the United States, in Yemen, in Turkey and elsewhere in seemingly isolated horror — had one thing in common: They hanged themselves after watching televised images of Saddam Hussein's execution.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that the manner of Saddam Hussein's execution was completely wrong and unacceptable — his first public comments about the Dec. 30 hanging.
The second clandestine video from Saddam Hussein's execution appeared on the Internet Tuesday, showing the deposed Iraqi leader's corpse, with a gaping neck wound, after his hanging.
Thousands of mostly Sunni Muslim protesters marched through Jordan's capital Friday, condemning Saddam Hussein's execution and lashing out at American and Shiite Muslim influence in the Arab world.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak condemned the conduct of Saddam Hussein's execution and its timing at the start of a Muslim religious festival, saying in an interview published Friday that the hanging made the deposed leader "a martyr."
The person believed to have recorded Saddam Hussein's raucous execution on a cell phone camera was arrested Wednesday, an adviser to Iraq's prime minister said.
Grainy cell phone video of Saddam Hussein's execution triggered international criticism Tuesday, with Britain's deputy prime minister calling the leaked images "unacceptable" and the Vatican decrying the footage as a "spectacle" violating human rights.
A military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail said the deposed dictator saved bread crusts to feed birds and seldom complained to his captors, except when he had legitimate gripes.
Hundreds of Iraqis flocked to the village where Saddam Hussein was born on Sunday to see the deposed leader buried in a religious compound 24 hours after his execution.
Although Iraqi authorities released no video of Saddam Hussein's execution, crude images of the hanging emerged Saturday on the Internet, and some TV networks used portions leading up to the trap door opening.
Saddam's legacy thrives in the Arab world"Saddam Hussein killed more Arabs and Muslims than any other Middle Eastern leader in recent history.
Saddam and Obama: the Omnipresent LeadersIn 2003, motoring around western Iraq a few weeks after the regime's fall, when the schoolhouses were hastily taking down the huge portraits of Saddam that had hung on every classroom wall, I visited an elementary-school principal with a huge stack of suddenly empty picture fra …
Study demonstrates how we support our false beliefsIn a study published in the most recent issue of the journal Sociological Inquiry, sociologists from four major research institutions focus on one of the most curious aspects of the 2004 presidential election: the strength and resilience of the belief among many Americans that Sa …
Saddam's Grave Stirs TensionsBut as the number of visitors to the grave increases, the government has grown increasingly worried, fearful that the site could become a symbol of resistance to the new order.
New info on Saddam, al Qaeda controversyAn interrogator who opposes the war has some unexpected things to say about what detainees claimed on Saddam, al Qaeda links
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq bans visits to Saddam graveThe Iraqi government has banned all organised visits to the grave of former leader Saddam Hussein.
There was some cattle rustling gang about and the town's Ranchers lost a lot of cattle. The ranchers were scared they had lost everything.
Why people believed Saddam had nukes"FBI: Saddam told us he lied about having nukes to deter Iran
Where IS this money?` "... Abu Seger was also one of Saddam's trusted counter-intelligence agents . . . After Samara was occupied by US forces, it was discovered that Abu Seger lived in a home on the Tigris River just 200 yards from the main U.S. military position in the city.
Thanks to Tom Bombadil for the best laugh I've had in weeks. JUST ONE MONTH after their gay marriage rocked the world, ecstatic newlyweds Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein have adopted a shaved-ape baby to make their family complete.
Cheney: OK, OK, Saddam Wasn't Behind 9/11Former Vice President Dick Cheney has finally acknowledged, despite previous claims to the contrary, that Saddam Hussein did not collaborate with al-Qaeda to launch the 9/11 attacks.
Cheney admits...there WAS NO LINK between Iraq and 9/11On 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."
How To Scare The @!$%# Out Of America And Make Them Do AnythingBBC Documentary explaining exactly how Neo-conservatives invented a story called Al-Qaeda, how this story was used to twist American patiotism into paranoia, exactly who is behind the myth of international terrorism, who benefits, and how everything you thought you knew about the …
There seems to be a real effort by some to make excuses for the Bush administrations pre-empted invasion of Iraq based on a moral imperative.
Torture Was Used to Try to Link Saddam with 9/11 Marjorie Cohn, President of the Lawyers Guild and Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego writes a concise roundup of the torture case against the Bush war criminals.
Why you all buggering off to airport? (Satire)MY dear British friends, why you leave? You come here six year ago and say all will be great now that fat Sunni bastard in Baghdad is down hole. I stand in street and cheer. I look very much forward to being free and having aspirin and CNN.
Egypt: Tehran's leaders should learn from Saddam"Egyptian state newspaper's editorial slams Iranian President Ahmadinejad, Islamic republic's conduct regarding nuclear program. 'Iran interested in getting Arab states mixed up in conflict for own agenda,' al-Ahram says
Hi America, Our prays have been answer, Now I'm not one to worry about things, but this economy and deficit had me worried a little , so I prayed for a sign.
Saddam Museum of Horrors To Open (Video)A new museum will soon be opening that will show Saddam's torture devices. Video
Cheney, Bush Strongly Disagreed on LibbyFormer 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."
Crazy NeoCon Frank Gaffney alleges Saddam Hussein involved in 9/11 attacks AND Oklahoma City Bombing AND '93 World Trade Center Bombing"Hardball" managed to be even more mind-numbing, with Frank Gaffney taking the bizarre Iraq theories to the next level:
America did not win the war in Iraq when "Mission Accomplished" proudly projected to the world during a Presidential photo opportunity.
Every 20th of January following the quadrennial presidential elections, the United States of America holds the inauguration of its new chief executive.
In a discussion a couple of weeks ago here on the Vine I was challenged to come up with proof behind the following statement I made: Iraq was already secretly on the agenda, 9/11 was a good excuse, the WMD's were a deliberate lie and Bush gets away clean because people swallowed …
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