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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi Shiites broke into wild celebration on Sunday after Saddam Hussein was sentenced to hang, but his fellow Sunnis paraded through the former dictator's hometown chanting, "We will avenge you Saddam." ADVERTISEMENT In Sadr City, the Shiite stronghold of northeast Baghdad, youths took to the streets dancing and singing, despite a curfew declared for the capital and two neighboring provinces. "Execute Saddam," they chanted. Many carried posters bearing the image of Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American cleric whose Mahdi Army militia effectively runs the district.

Iraq, WMDs, and Troubling Revelations by Jamie Glazov Just recently, Saddam Hussein's former southern regional commander, Gen. Al-Tikriti, gave the first videotaped testimony confirming that Iraq had WMDs up to the American invasion in 2003 and that Russia helped removed them prior to the war. His testimony confirms numerous other sources that have pointed to Russia's secret alliance with Iraq and the co-ordinated moving of WMDs before the American liberation. Today we've invited three experts on this subject to discuss the details of Al-Tikriti's testimony and its larger significance. Our guests today are: John Loftus, president of the Intelligence Summit,...

The trial of Saddam Hussein will be shown on live television, Iraq's national security adviser said yesterday. The trial will show the Arab and Muslim world "that this is going to be a fair, just trial with a defence counsel in there, with a proper prosecuting counsel as well there," Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq Rubaie told CNN. "And everybody will watch this trial live on television." Earlier this month, an Iraqi tribunal filed the first charges against the deposed Iraqi leader over the 1982 killing of 143 residents of the village of Dujail, north-east of Baghdad, where he had...

When it comes to dabbling in the black arts, former U.S. President Bill Clinton has much in common with deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Saddam reportedly wore a stone around his neck to ward off evil. When he was ensconced in his Iraqi palaces, he summoned up the jinn (genies) to do his bidding. According to historian Joel A. Ruth, a Voodoo sorcerer, supplied to Clinton by the exiled-by-coup John-Bertrand Aristide, once put a curse on incumbent President George W. Bush, "by manipulating a doll made in the president’s image."

BUSH: I think credibility is going to be very important in the future in the Middle East. I want everybody to know, should I be the president, Israel's going to be our friend. I'm going to stand by Israel. Secondly, that I think it's important to reach out to moderate Arab nations like Jordan and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. It's important to be friends with people when you don't need each other so that when you do, there's a strong bond of friendship. And that's going to be particularly important in dealing not only with situations such as now...

Saddam Hussein - the man who butchered his daughters' spouses, sprayed deadly chemical poisons that peel human skin, and chopped off the tongues of potential critics - was anything but a cog in the machine. He was the machine. A machine that chewed up and spat out its cogs. But, as it does with most of those who end up in chains and certainly with those who spend months cohabiting with mice, imprisonment has a way of making even the once petrifying and mighty seem small. Hussein's frail, dazed visage was a mesmerising, potent analgesic for US and Iraqi nerves...

International News Saddam Hussein has been captured alive ‘The tyrant is a prisoner,’ top U.S. administrator says BREAKING NEWS NBC News and news services Updated: 8:09 a.m. ET Dec. 14, 2003BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eight months after the fall of his government, Saddam Hussein has been captured by coalition forces in Iraq, the United States confirmed on Sunday. The arrest was a major victory for the coalition that has been battling an insurgency for months. "Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," L. Paul Bremer, the head of the U.S. administration in Iraq told a news conference. Bremer described the arrest as...

When I talk about some of the things that bother me a lot about Iraq, like the gouging out of eyes, the branding of the Arabic word for "whore" on young women's foreheads, the beheading of other women in public, things like that, a few of my American friends who opposed the war often get quite angry - at me, not at the torturers and executioners. They tell me such things happened when Saddam Hussein was in power, until March. So shouldn't foreigners just shut up or stop putting out reports like the one about the 30-year-old man whose ears...

This past Saturday at our regular meeting of the Arkansas FReepers, we were blessed with the opportunity to meet Jasmine, a young Kuwaiti woman and one time student of the University of Arkansas (I think...correct me if I'm wrong on that y'all). Travelgirl has been a foster mother to her and at Christmastime, much to the consternation and concern of her family and other FReepers, she flew to Kuwait to be present at Jasmine's wedding. At the meeting, we all listened attentively as Jasmine told her very moving story, driving home for us once again how blessed we are to...

A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit throws out a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after removing it from the command office of the Iraqi Naval base in Az Zubayar, in southern Iraq's desert, Sunday, March 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

JOHN Howard yesterday delivered his case for restraining Iraq to Australians still sceptical about the nation's involvement in the looming campaign. The Prime Minister used a speech to Parliament on its first sitting day of the year to sum up the Government's case for siding with the US and Britain. He pointedly addressed the unrest of many who have not been convinced the campaign against Iraq is Australia's business and who are unhappy with the prospect of a US-led war. But he said he was still hopeful of a diplomatic solution and war was the last resort. "The Government will...

'Next year in Baghdad!" It was with this slogan of hope that the 350-plus delegates to the first-ever conference of Iraqi opposition parties, held in London, parted after three days of intense formal and informal debates. Most delegates believe that a war to topple Saddam Hussein is now inevitable and most likely to come sometime next spring. Since they also believe that any war would be short -- some say "just a couple of days" -- they feel confident that they will be back home within the next few months. The very fact that the conference was held must be...

Hans Blix in Baghdad on November 18 Friday November 08, 2002 - 18h52 GMT New York (the United Nations), Nov. 8 (AFP) - the head of the inspectors in disarmament of the United Nations Hans Blix announced Friday that it would go to Baghdad on November 18. The executive director of the checking and, inspection Audit Board of UNO (COCOVINU) made this advertisement with the press at the conclusion of the meeting of the Security Council during which the resolution 1441 on disarmament of Iraq was adopted unanimously. "We are happy that the resolution was adopted unanimously because that...

In recent days it has become increasingly clear why this November 5th is more important than ever. Political consultants and pollsters are all reporting that they are expecting turn out to be down 18-25% lower than what is usual turnout. Politicians are clearly worried about it and patriots should be. In the state of Illinois we have been wrangling with specific issues related to the candidates since the very contentious primary season fall one year ago. But after a good sweeping out of the party's old style establishment on the state central committee and the naming of a new GOP...

Foreign minister shies away from explicitly backing military action By John Ward, Canadian Press OTTAWA — Canada supports the U.S. position that action should follow if Saddam Hussein tries to hamper United Nations weapons inspectors looking for weapons of mass destruction, Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham says. "We can certainly endorse the United States position that there has to be clear consequences for a failure to act," he said following a cabinet meeting today. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said he wants to see a no-nonsense resolution in the UN Security Council on ferreting out Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "We...

It is not seriously disputed that Saddam Hussein would like to acquire weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. Indeed, prior to the Gulf War he had acquired all but the last category, as United Nations arms inspectors later confirmed. Had Israeli jets not destroyed the Osirak nuclear reactor a decade earlier, he might have completed the set. Similarly, it is not seriously disputed that Saddam, more than idly desiring the technologies of mass death, has been working furiously to develop them, to the detriment of certain other concerns, such as feeding his people. Again, the evidence of UN arms...