Topic: Saddam Hussein

Iraqi forces arrest 16 suspected al Qaeda members

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces have arrested 16 suspected al Qaeda members accused of being behind more than 100 killings in the capital, a senior security official said Sunday.General Ahmed Abu Ragheef, the Interior Ministry's head of internal affairs, accused the ...

PM urges Iraqis not to attend Baghdad demos

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on Iraqis not to participate in massive planned demonstrations in Baghdad on Friday, describing their organisers as insurgents and loyalists of Saddam Hussein.His remarks were markedly stronger than warnings issued by Iraqi security officials, who have claimed ...

Suicide bomber kills 14 police recruits in Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber wearing a vest filled with explosives attacked a crowd of Iraqi police recruits on Tuesday in former dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, killing at least 14, a provincial official said.Ahmed Abdul-Jabbar, deputy governor of Salahuddin ...

Qaeda plans U.S., UK Christmas attack: Iraq official

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is planning attacks in the United States, Britain and Europe around Christmas, one year after a failed attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound passenger plane, a senior Iraqi official said Thursday.Major General Dhiya Hussein, the interior ministry's counter-terrorism ...

Terrorism

Al-Qaida is one such large terror group which aims to endorse the goals of Islamic extremists. Simultaneously, the Protestant extremists have used terrorism to demand for the continuation of the British rule.. A Jewish group, Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) used ...
There is little moral difference between Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and America's invasion of Iraq. Saddam's move on Kuwait was clearly for the purpose of expanding Iraqi territory and oil reserves, while the motives of the American move on Iraq continue to ...
I was too young to remember when JFK was assassinated but as I grew up remembered people saying " He continuously thumbed his nose at the string of resolutions adopted by the U.N. Now we are in Iraq, bogged down with no ...
If all American troops and private security contractors (aka mercenaries) were summarily withdrawn from Iraq, many analysts believe that there would be a full fledged civil war. Many commentators believe that Iraq is already in de facto civil war, so the natural ...
The war in Iraq has been maybe the most controversial among those fought by the US after the war in Vietnam and the reasons are in its motivations and in how the US army has led it, unable to defeat the guerrilla ...
This is an interesting question because there are a lot of different facets to the issue, and it is made more complicated by our feelings about the current situation in Iraq and the fact that some of us believe we were misled ...
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