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i On Global Trends (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Peter Ricketts says UK officials became aware months before 9/11 terrorist attacks of Bush administration plans to remove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.A former top British intelligence officer says British officials decided in 2001 against participating in talks with U.S. officials about regime change in Iraq.Peter Ricketts, now permanent secretary at the Home Office, spoke Tuesday...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The person in charge of prosecuting Saddam Hussein says that there are documents proving that his regime and Al-Qaeda had a relationship. From MEMRI: Ja’far al-Musawi , head of the prosecution team in the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has told the Iraqi TV channel al-Faihaa of the existence of official documents that prove the involvement of...
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Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Ja'far al-Musawi, head of the prosecution team in the trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, has told the Iraqi TV channel al-Faihaa of the existence of official documents that prove the involvement of the Saddam regime with the two ... November 16, 2009, 9:41 am
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Baghdad - Threats from Kurdish and Sunni Arab politicians to withdraw support for the country's new election law have once again thrown into question whether a vote will take place on time. After weeks of tense debate on voting in the disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, lawmakers last week reached an 11th-hour compromise to allow voting to take place on January 18, ahead of the constitutionally...
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Gorillas Guides (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Baghdad (dpa) An Iraqi Christian member of parliament on Tuesday asked the speaker to request an international inquiry into the killing and intimidation of Christians in Iraq. Yonadam Kanna, an Assyrian Christian from northern Iraq, petitioned Sunni Muslim parliamentary speaker Iyad al-Samarrai to formally request the inquiry, al-Samarrai’s Iraqi Accord Front (al-Tawafaq) reported...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Baghdad - An Iraqi Christian member of parliament on Tuesday asked the speaker to request an international inquiry into the killing and intimidation of Christians in Iraq. Yonadam Kanna, an Assyrian Christian from northern Iraq, petitioned Sunni Musl...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein planned to escape from his US-run prison in 2006 with the help of loyalists, including former bodyguards, according to a book written by one of his lawyers. "Saddam's plan to escape prison was supposed to take place in the summer of 2006, with the backing of the Iraqi resistance and a special force of bodyguards,"...
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The North Korean leader may be using look-alikes to hide his poor health. One analyst says that when President Clinton visited in August, he met with an actor, not Kim Jong-il.
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thoughts from podunk (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
This article deserves the widest circulation possible… Afghans say: Obama builds occupation Kabul money changer Ehsanullah wondered why U.S. forces had managed to find former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein , but had yet to locate Al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden or Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar , who both fled U.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2001. " This is part of...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
British Foreign Ministry officials told the Iraq inquiry public hearings on Wednesday that they believed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons may have been dismantled, Britain's Sky News reported. It is the second day of public hearings. The inquiry looked into Iraq's weapons capability and its influence on the decision to go to war. William Ehrman, who was...
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
LONDON — Tony Blair may have swung behind US calls for regime change in Iraq after meeting President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch in 2002, a top diplomat told an inquiry into the war on Thursday. Christopher Meyer, then Britain's ambassador to Washington, said Blair's line seemed to harden following talks at the Crawford [...]
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Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
British FM officials said on Wednesday that they believed Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons may have been dismantled.
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... attacks on the United States that the Bush administration was pressing for the removal of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He noted the U.S. rhetoric - particularly an article published by then-U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice discussing the overthrow of Saddam - but said it did not seem like a draft of an operations plan.Inquiry chairman John Chilcot opened...
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From The Wilderness (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Mamoon Alabbasi 11-03-09 The Palestine Chronicle As people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington’s foreign policy under President Barack Obama. During two lectures organized by the School [...]
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Norwegian press has been doing great work in investigating the Norwegian oil firm DNO's somewhat questionable dealings in Iraqi Kurdistan, during the course of which they identified former ambassador Peter Galbraith as a claimant to a share of the Tawke oil field. The other claimant is Shahir 'Abd-al-Haq, a Yemeni businessman, who had handled DNO's business in Yemen and, at some point, also...
