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Baghdad, Iraq—The grave diggers say that the bodies in many of the graves here in a walled-off enclave of the Kirkh Islamic Cemetery, a mile down the road from the big prison, lie twisted in twos and threes. For over 20 years, they report, almost no one has been allowed to visit here, apart from a lone shovel man and the secret police who heaved the bodies from their cars toward the holes in the earth. The head grave digger, Hatem, says he watched these events from behind the wispy eucalyptus trees lining the western wall; he adds that the...

GEORGE Galloway said last night that he is ready to take on the Labour Party and fight the next election as an independent, as he launched a libel action against claims that he was in the paid service of Saddam Hussein. The maverick Labour MP has said he will make the new Glasgow Central constituency into a stronghold of "real Labour values" if he is thrown out of the party for his attacks on Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, during the Iraq war. As he started legal action against the Daily Telegraph, it last night printed what was billed as...

THE Attorney-General is considering action against the money-raising appeal set up by George Galloway which is at the centre of allegations that he was bankrolled by Saddam Hussein. As the Labour MP began legal action for libel over the claims that he had received £375,000 a year from the Baghdad regime, The Times has learnt that Lord Goldsmith, QC, is studying a separate complaint against him. It is based on an article in The Times showing that Mr Galloway promised to spend all the money raised by the Mariam Appeal on treating sick Iraqi children, but later used it to...

Here's what we have on the Dishonourable Mr. Galloway: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897994/posts Labour Investigates Iraq Cash ClaimSky News ^ | 4/22/03 | Sky News     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886368/posts Or: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/886136/posts Victim of Saddam makes Galloway shut up (Galloway alert!) The Telegraph ^ | Filed: 06/04/2003) | unknown     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885700/posts British MP Galloway used fund for leukaemia girl to pay for Iraq trips (sickening) The Times (of London) ^ | April 05, 2003 | Dominic Kennedy     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897567/posts Galloway was in Saddam's pay, say secret Iraqi documents (PACIFISTS ON SADDAM PAYROLL)The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 22, 2003 | David Blair  ...

Saddam Hussein rejected a request from George Galloway for more money, saying that the Labour backbencher's "exceptional" demands were not affordable, according to an official document found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad. The letter from Saddam's most senior aide was sent in response to Mr Galloway's reported demand for additional funds. This was outlined in a memorandum from the Iraqi intelligence chief disclosed yesterday in The Daily Telegraph. Mr Galloway denies receiving any money from the regime. He claims that any documents purporting to show this are forgeries planted by western intelligence agencies to try to discredit him. The...

<p>Baghdad -- The huge, monumental building is crumpled like scrap paper, but it is surrendering its secrets slowly.</p> <p>The central headquarters of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein's intelligence service, sits behind wide-open gates in central Baghdad, visited by a nonstop stream of impoverished Iraqis who, since the arrival of U.S. troops two weeks ago, have looted anything of the remotest material value -- from lamps to telephones to file holders.</p>

George Galloway, the Labour backbencher, received money from Saddam Hussein's regime, taking a slice of oil earnings worth at least £375,000 a year, according to Iraqi intelligence documents found by The Daily Telegraph in Baghdad. A confidential memorandum sent to Saddam by his spy chief said that Mr Galloway asked an agent of the Mukhabarat secret service for a greater cut of Iraq's exports under the oil for food programme. He also said that Mr Galloway was profiting from food contracts and sought "exceptional" business deals. Mr Galloway has always denied receiving any financial assistance from Baghdad. Asked to explain...

<p>U.S. Special Forces and Marines yesterday captured another of Saddam Hussein's half brothers, a former head of Iraqi intelligence, as teams of coalition forces focused on finding chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.</p> <p>Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, the second relative of Saddam to be captured, was snatched in a nighttime raid and has extensive knowledge of the regime's inner workings, Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director of operations for the U.S. Central Command, told reporters in Qatar.</p>

Former Iraqi spy chief in Syria, U.S. says WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - Former Iraqi spy chief Farouk Hijazi is believed to be in Syria, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, amid mounting accusations by Washington that Damascus is harboring members of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government. Hijazi was director of external operations for the Iraqi intelligence agency Mukhabarat in the mid-1990s, when the agency allegedly launched a failed attempt to assassinate the first President George Bush during a visit to Kuwait, the official said. He has subsequently served as Iraqi ambassador to Tunisia and Turkey. "He is believed to be...

<p>BAGHDAD — A Moscow organization was training Iraqi intelligence agents as recently as September, at the same time Russia was resisting the Bush administration's push for a tough stand against Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi documents show.</p> <p>The documents were discovered by a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle in a Baghdad office of the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi secret police. At least five agents graduated Sept. 15 from a two-week course in surveillance and eavesdropping techniques, according to certificates issued to the Iraqi agents by the "Special Training Center" in Moscow.</p>

<p>Baghdad -- A Moscow-based organization was training Iraqi intelligence agents as recently as last September -- at the same time Russia was resisting the Bush administration's push for a tough stand against Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi documents discovered by The Chronicle show.</p>

Reprinted from NewsMax.com Russia Gave Iraq Assassin List NewsMax WiresMonday, April 14, 2003 Britain’s Telegraph reported Sunday that top secret documents discovered by Coalition forces in Baghdad “show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders.” Incredibly, Russia’s government also provided Iraq with “lists of assassins available for ‘hits’ in the West and details of arms deals to neighbouring countries.” The Telegraph said the documents detailed “the extent of the links between Russia and Saddam” and were obtained from...

<p>April 12 — Hashmia Jassim has such a desperate need to talk about her life as a bug that she beckons three passing strangers into her dwelling. By doing so, she is abandoning an ironclad norm of behavior for a Shiite woman. She pushes the curtain aside that separates the women’s quarters, and, worse, even draws her male guests in by gentle tugs at their wrists. The touch is shocking here in southern Iraq, from a woman of 54 in a black chador.</p>

Matthew Fisher National Post, with files from Agence France-Presse BAGHDAD - Inside the massive headquarters of Saddam Hussein's secret police, some Marines were having a bit of fun yesterday with the remnants of a statue of the Iraqi dictator. "Hello, Saddam. Can you hear me?" joked a corporal as he held up a huge ear, left over from a statue destroyed by civilians before the Marines had arrived. Other soldiers mugged with the dictator's mustache and an eyeball. The moment of levity was out of character in the complex on the eastern side of Baghdad, the very epicentre of Saddam's...

<p>April 14, 2003 -- Top-secret Iraqi intelligence documents found in Baghdad show that Russia funneled spy secrets to Saddam Hussein and that Moscow was still training Iraqi spies last fall, in violation of U.N. sanctions, reports say.</p> <p>The captured documents also show that the Kremlin gave Saddam lists of assassins who could do "hits" in the West and that Iraq and Russia signed deals to share intelligence and help get "visas" so agents could go to Western countries, the London Telegraph reported.</p>

<p>Top-secret Iraqi intelligence documents found in Baghdad show that Russia funneled spy secrets to Saddam Hussein and that Moscow was still training Iraqi spies last fall, in violation of U.N. sanctions, reports say.</p> <p>The captured documents also show that the Kremlin gave Saddam lists of assassins who could do "hits" in the West and that Iraq and Russia signed deals to share intelligence and help get "visas" so agents could go to Western countries, the London Telegraph reported.</p>

Report on spying baseless: Russia MOSCOW The Russian spy agency dismissed as `baseless' a British media report that Russia had provided Baghdad with critical intelligence in the run-up to the U.S.-led war against Iraq. "We do not comment on proof-less and baseless allegations published in the tabloid press," the spokesman for the Foreign Intelligence Service, Boris Labusov, told the Interfax news agency on Sunday. Earlier, Russia denied reports that the Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein, was hiding in the Russian Embassy in Baghdad; that Russian diplomats had spirited out of Iraq the secret files of the Iraqi security services; and that...

op secret documents obtained by The Telegraph in Baghdad show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders. Moscow also provided Saddam with lists of assassins available for "hits" in the West and details of arms deals to neighbouring countries. The two countries also signed agreements to share intelligence, help each other to "obtain" visas for agents to go to other countries and to exchange information on the activities of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qa'eda leader. The documents detailing...

RUSSIA SPIED ON BLAIR FOR SADDAM... // Top secret documents obtained by the Sunday Telegraph in Baghdad show that Russia provided Saddam Hussein's regime with wide-ranging assistance in the months leading up to the war, including intelligence on private conversations between Tony Blair and other Western leaders... MORE...

<p>A Moscow-based organization was training Iraqi intelligence agents as recently as last September -- at the same time Russia was resisting the Bush administration's push for a tough stand against Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi documents discovered by The Chronicle show.</p>