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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 5 months ago
Vice President Biden swooped into Iraq Thursday for a surprise July 4 weekend visit to the troops and Iraqi leaders struggling to take control of their nation. Biden's drop-in comes days after U.S. forces began leaving Iraq's urban areas, a major...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
The documents, released under the freedom of information act, are from interviews and informal conversations he had with the FBI in early 2004. In one of the tapes, Saddam scoffs at reports that he had been using body doubles to confuse assassins.
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News Source: Weekly Arham
| 5 months ago
US combat troops pulled out of the capital and other cities and towns in a move that should, under the security accord signed between Baghdad and Washington in November, pave the way for a full withdrawal by 2012. But fears are rising that the...
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News Source: CNN
| 5 months ago
In 2004, even after being captured by U.S. forces, Saddam Hussein told an FBI interrogator he believed Iran was a greater threat to Iraq than the United States, according to newly released FBI documents. The FBI interviews took place while Hussein,...
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News Source: Zaman.com
| 5 months ago
The bomb was the first in Baghdad, police said, since Tuesday's partial US withdrawal, a day labeled "National Sovereignty Day" by Iraqi authorities elated at what they see as a major step to shaking off a foreign occupation. The pullback from urban...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 5 months ago
However, he did take care to learn a few basics on a recent trip to Iraq as part of "Coaches Tour 2009," a series of meet-and-greets with servicemen and women designed to boost morale. There's a warning siren, he goes on to explain, but that not...
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News Source: Novinite
| 5 months ago
Interview July 2, 2009, Thursday Ambassador Ratchev (middle) at the Ashraf refugee camp with Bulgarian and Iraqi officers guarding the camp. Photo: Personal archive Interview with Bulgaria's Ambassador to Iraq, Valeri Ratchev What is the present...
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News Source: Associated Press
| 5 months ago
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein stayed in Baghdad until he saw "the city was about to fall." Months later, he was caught hiding at the same farm where he had fled in 1959 after taking part in an attempt to kill the country's prime...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
ET The Associated Press The farm where Saddam Hussein hid from U.S. forces before he was captured in December 2003 was familiar ground for the Iraqi dictator: It was the same place, he told an FBI agent, where he sought refuge 44 years earlier after...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
US investigators have released accounts of the questioning of Saddam Hussein, offering a goldmine of historical and personal details on the Iraqi leader. The documents released under freedom of information rules are from interviews and informal...