Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein's regime invaded Kuwait in 1990, where Iraqi forces stayed for months before they were forced to leave under an international military campaign known as the "First Gulf War".

Saddam Hussein is the former president who ruled Iraq with an iron fist.

To try to compare Tony Blair with Saddam Hussein is insane.

She said: "The horrors of Saddam Hussein and what he did to his own people...were clearly documented and I think we were right to take part in that invasion."

Uloom lived in London for a number of years as a dissident during the Saddam Hussein era, and was condemned to death in absentia in 1969 by the Baath regime.

"These are the only real memoirs Saddam Hussein wrote by hand and they will be released as soon as we find a publishing house," the Dubai-based news channel Al Arabiya, quoted lawyer Haitham Nabil al Harsh, as saying.

The Iranian regime, as did Saddam Hussein's regime, is squandering the wealth of its country due to the sanctions imposed on it as a result of its irrational policies to dominate and threaten the world and its neighbors," Takieddine said.

The Iraqi High Tribunal sentenced Ali Hassan al-Majeed, a former official under the Saddam Hussein regime, on Sunday to death for his role in the 1988 gas offensive against the Kurds, reports Reuters.

The Trial of Saddam Hussein is an account by an Iraqi lawyer who was in some measure an insider in the judicial proceedings that led to the execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Al-Ani, an Iraqi-born, British-trained barrister who served as legal adviser on Saddam Hussein's defense to his daughter, Raghad Saddam Hussein, argues that the trial and subsequent execution of former Iraqi president under the regime of American occupation was an illegal farce that deserved international condemnation.

While there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime was a murderous and brutal dictatorship, the new Iraqi regime may prove to be even worse than Saddam's.

Tony Blair's has not been put on trial for these acts of crimes against humanity, yet we have seen the inhumane hanging of President Saddam Hussein for the killing of 126 civilians.

Nearly four years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, the relentless violence is hitting young Iraqis hard.

War crimes trials are often controversial, and few such trials in history have been more so than that of Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq.

JUDGING from this evasive response to journalist's questions at the monthly Downing Street press conference at which he "repeatedly attempted to bat away the question of whether he wants to see Saddam Hussein hanged" (Daily Post, November 4), it is clear that much as he would like to see the extinguishing of Saddam as the beacon of continuing resistance to the illegal occupation of his country, Tony Blair has been hoist by his own petard over his own populist stance on capital punishment.