Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 fame is claiming that he had a role in the United States’s capture of none other than Saddam Hussein. So, here’s what happened. Hoppus informed NME during a recent ...

While the US military have yet to formally recognise Hoppus' part in the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in 2003 as part of Operation Red Dawn, the pop-punk star believes that it ...

July 16, 1979 - Saddam Hussein takes over as president of Iraq. 1979 - In response to the Ayatollah's call for the overthrow of the Baathist regime, comprised mostly of Sunni Muslims, Saddam ...

The photos of the Saddam Hussein statue being toppled were iconic images of the fall of the regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on this day in 2003. Supreme Court’s Alito Calls Block of ...

Foto Hussein Malla/ AP Zou er bij de ontmanteling van het paleis van de Syrische dictator Bashar al-Assad nog iets spannends tevoorschijn komen? Nadat het regime van Saddam Hoessein ten val kwam ...

Zijn centrale vraag was of de iconische video uit 2003 waarin een standbeeld van Saddam Hussein in Bagdad werd omgetrokken, wellicht Amerikaanse propaganda was. Het antwoord was ‘ja’, volgens Triebert ...

Tekst loopt door onder de foto. Ze schreeuwden leuzen als ’from ... slogan die ooit aanhangers van toenmalig Irak-dictator Saddam Hussein zongen. En: ’Viva viva intifada’, oftewel pro ...

De gevangenis werd onder Saddam Hussein gebruikt om politieke gevangenen in op te sluiten ... Een jaar later gingen de foto's die de gevangenishorror in Abu Ghraib blootleggen de wereld rond. In 2009 ...

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.

In the pantheon of bloodthirsty dictators, Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein has almost been relegated to the dustbin of history. He’s remembered as part of the now-quaint-seeming “axis of evil ...

Mr. Coll is an editor at The Economist and the author of “The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq.” America committed its worst foreign ...

U.S. Army soldiers stand guard near a portrait of Saddam Hussein while others search an Iraqi police station in March 2003. (John Moore/AP) Review by Spencer Ackerman Had the eminent journalist ...