Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was born in the town of Al-Awja, 13 km (8 mi) from the Iraqi town of Tikrit, to a family of shepherds from the al-Begat clan group, a sub-group of the Al-Bu Nasir (البو ناصر) tribe.
How Saddam Hussein spent his final days – eating muffins, gardening and listening to Mary J Blige. Former Iraqi dictator was hanged …
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WASHINGTON – Now that President George W. Bush’s allegations about former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s ties to al-Qaeda and ambitious weapons programs have been thoroughly discredited, another outstanding charge remains to be resolved.
Saddam’s demon seed Uday Hussein’s many vices and wanton sadism appalled even his man. And one man was on hand to witness it all – Uday’s unwilling ‘body double’
Raghad Saddam Hussein, who has been living in exile since the end of the Iraq war in 2003, has created a 10-piece collection which is …
Media caption Video footage from Mosul after its capture by Isis shows militants driving through the streets, June 2014. It was 10 June 2014, and Iraq’s second biggest city, with a population of around two million, had just fallen to the militants of the group then calling itself Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham/the Levant (Isis or Isil).
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation… in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only one choice.
Thirty-five years after Operation Opera – the Israeli air attack that destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor at Osirak, retired IAF officers and Mossad agents revealed hitherto unknown details of the operation on Friday. In an expose aired on Channel 10, Col. (Ret.) Ze’ev Raz, who led the