The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll, Penguin Press, 576 pages Saddam Hussein was the first person I saw die on television.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The family and loved ones of a teen killed in a 2023 car accident are still searching for answers as the man facing charges has yet to be sentenced. Ernesto Ocampo ...
One of Saddam Hussein’s alleged former weapons chiefs has been recruited as a scientist at one of Britain’s most important research facilities. Physicist Dr Saleh Al-Atabi was a commander in ...
Learn how Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq with an iron fist for almost 30 years. To maintain power, he used fear, intimidation and violence like few other dictators in history, but he made the fatal ...
His opposition intensified following the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, which heightened Saddam’s fears of a Shiite-led uprising in Iraq. In 1980, as the government moved against Shiite ...
"Bush developed a sense that there was unfinished business from the first Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s, that leaving Saddam in power had been a mistake,” recalled journalist Barton Gellman.