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Yes, Saddam’s Fedayeen, Arabic for “Men of Sacrifice,” wore enormous Darth Vader helmets. Their commander, Hussein’s son Uday ...
Qaeda’s planes tore through New York’s skyline on September 11, 2001, Yemen’s then-Foreign Minister Abubakr al-Qirbi cut ...
Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400 top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against the ruling party. The conspirators, he said, were in that very room.
Saddam hoped that by saving the aircraft in the sand, he could prevent their destruction, and when he was ready (because he assumed he would still be in power after all was said and done), he could ...
A Cotswold plane scrappage company has been the unlikely resting place of Saddam Hussein's stolen private jet - which is now ...
As the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War approaches, Peter Bergen speaks to retired FBI agent George Piro about his interrogation of Saddam Hussein and the aftershocks of the US ...
Saddam Hussein was an inept dictator during his final years in charge, thought 9/11 would bring Iraq and America closer together and took partial blame for his eventual fall from power after the 20… ...
In the premiere episode, “60 Minutes” covers the presence of Jesus in South Park’s schools. The co-anchors anxiously describe ...
BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 -- Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged in the predawn hours of Saturday for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of Shiite men and boys in the 1980s, sent to ...
Newly-released government files have suggested that it was ‘politically impossible’ to draw back from the the Iraq War unless dictator Saddam Hussein surrendered. Britain’s ambassador warned that ...