Iraq's prime minister says Saddam Hussein's execution would help undermine the insurgency as the ex-president's genocide trial heard more testimony yesterday of poison gas attacks on Kurdish villages two decades ago. picked by robfouryqr 2 years ago tags Saddam Hussein baghdad iraq genocide Kurds |
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has joined those criticizing the way in which Saddam Hussein was executed, his office said Sunday. picked by LatueOfStiberty 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share world |
A witness snuck a cellphone video camera into Saddam's execution. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 15 comments edit related share politics |
A reenactment of Saddam Hussein's hanging is luring the crowds at a new horror show in India's entertainment capital Mumbai. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Apparently he was found to be biased in favor of Saddam. Not that we can blame him. Saddam is simply dashing in a moustache. picked by jaxomlotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A US forensics expert took the stand in Saddam Hussein's trial for genocide against ethnic Kurds to tell in grim detail how he unearthed the remains of 27 people from a mass grave in northern Iraq. picked by teaya21 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share world |
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The court trying Saddam Hussein has heard further graphic accounts of how hundreds of Kurdish women and children were killed and buried in mass graves. Of the 301 bodies found, 183 belonged to children with 90% of these children under 13 years of age. picked by teaya21 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Three members of the former Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein -- including the man known as "Chemical Ali" -- will be executed within 30 days picked by buddha 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Saddam Hussein initially didn't think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen. picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
Saddam Hussein's private luxury train, equipped with chandeliers and Italian-made curtains, is being put into public service to help ease a train shortage, Iraqi rail officials say. picked by ConeOfSilence 3 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The US military bought Cuban cigars and hair dye for deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein while he was held before his execution because they were "mission essential". picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Judge thumps his chest and yells "This is MY house!" picked by mrnelson 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Saddam Hussein's cousin, known as "Chemical Ali," and two other regime officials were sentenced Sunday to hang for killing 180,000 men, women and children with chemical weapons two decades ago. picked by Moe 1 year ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Iraqi authorities have arrested one of the guards at Saddam Hussein's execution as part of a probe into how a video of his hanging was released on the internet. picked by teaya21 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
This isn't extremely graphic (it shows the actual hanging take place in shaky, grainy cellphone footage), although death and the circus surrounding it makes me uncomfortable in general. 1 comments edit related share plime.comHad he not been a tyrant and an unrepentant murderer I would not have watched or shared this with the rest of Plime. picked by jaxomlotus 2 years ago |
Saddam Hussein has called for an end to mounting Muslim sectarian violence in Iraq. picked by Milkshake 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
An Iraqi tribunal today convicted Saddam Hussein of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death by hanging for the brutal repression of a Shiite town in the 1980s. picked by Bornbad 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, was executed by hanging shortly before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, Arab media outlets reported picked by Hoosker 2 years ago 20 comments edit related share politics |
The font showed male and female stick figures in provocative poses picked by afeldman 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
A new video of Saddam. picked by BillyD1 2 years ago 6 comments edit related share plime.com |
So he should be hanged within circa 30 days... picked by murphyz 2 years ago 13 comments edit related share world |