'In India, there is this first generation migrant, say from a small village in UP. He didn't go to the Gulf to buy a big house but make the life of his family better.' 'He may have paid 1 lakh rupees to an agent to go to the Gulf. Imagine what will happen to him and his family if he has to come back. He and his family will become poor again.' 'He went to the Gulf to come out of poverty, but this war will make his family trapped in poverty once again.'
The tribunal was set up in December 2003 to try members of the former regime for crimes and other violations.
'Legal custody and physical custody can be two separate things," he added,' Bremer said.
'The next two to three weeks will not be decided in Washington.' 'They will be decided in Tehran, in whatever calculation Iran makes about the costs of continued resistance against the costs of appearing to have yielded.'
Does the new UN secretary-general support the death penalty? He won't say clearly.
Fight on toward goals that keep receding, or exit with most objectives unmet. Trump is agitated, his poll numbers falling below the Plimsoll line, his base fractured between those who back the war and those who remember that he campaigned on ending them.
'Saddam is looking for his honour, revenge and prestige. If need be he will die like Hitler in a bunker,' says Lt Gen [retd] Kirpal Singh Randhawa, who trained Iraqi officers in the 1970s.
An agent linked to disgraced Pakistani scientist A Q Khan had offered Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 1990 that they could build an atomic bomb for him in three years under a US $ 150 million "nuclear package deal," according to a new book.
Israel and the United States had a plan. Iran punched back. And now the Gulf is reeling, the world is beginning to feel the pain and, as on date, no one in Washington or Tel Aviv appears willing to admit that the punch has landed, notes Prem Panicker, continuing his must-read blog on the war in the Middle East.
China has made serious inroads into Latin America, which the US may now be hinting is simply not ok: Stay in your lane, Xi! In simple terms, China will no longer have access to Venezuelan oil, points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
'All the government and private offices are functioning.' 'Overall, life is continuing normally.' 'People of Iran are showing spirit and resilience in the face of adversity.'
Former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice has said she does not regret the 2003 Iraq war to oust America's "implacable enemy" Saddam Hussein, but admitted that it was a "mistake" to put the spotlight simply on the weapons of mass destruction, which were never found.
The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows that 40-51 per cent feel that 'removing Saddam Hussein from power wasn't worth it'.
'With tears in his eyes, he told me in Gujarati, "What have they done to this country? It has so much potential." That feeling for the country -- it was striking.'
An inconclusive end to this war will pose high risk for Netanyahu of a cascading demand for a regime change in Israel, predicts Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Vital intelligence used to justify Iraq invasion ten years ago was based on 'fabrication', a media report has claimed, citing that the Central Intelligence Agency and MI6 were told that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
'There are double standards in terms of who is accused of crimes against humanity. I am yet to hear of any white Westerner who stands so accused, although there are some deserving candidates.'
Addressing a 'Hindu Panchayat' in Sitapur, Togadia said Hindus hesitate from openly speaking on the issues concerning their society.
Iraq has been the scene of bitter battles and bloodshed for years, but the poignant photos you will see here show how life has moved on for Iraqis.
The two men had been found guilty of crimes against the civilian population of the town of Dujail in 1982.
The United States is now trying to determine how it received erroneous intelligence that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was developing and stockpiling nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
An Al Qaeda splinter group seized control of Mosul, the second biggest city in Iraq, on Tuesday, putting security forces to flight in a spectacular show of strength against the Shi'ite-led Baghdad government. On Wednesday, the Islamist insurgents seized the city of Tikrit, their second major gain after capturing Mosul on Tuesday. Tikrit, the hometown of former leader Saddam Hussein, lies just 150km north of the capital Baghdad, BBC reported.
As many as 7,655 candidates and 307 political entities, nearly triple the number that contested the provisional polls in January, are competing for 275 Parliamentary seats.
Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal had trained him at the instance of Saddam Hussein, a media report said.
The scale of crisis in Iraq with militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham overtaking each town in the country and vowing to continue their bloodshed till the time they take over Baghdad, has left everyone with the one question they thought they would never have to: Would Iraq have been more stable if Saddam Hussein had been in power?
British government officials drafted a 'contract with the Iraqi people' to boost an internal coup against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein two years before the invasion of Iraq, The Independent reported.
But David Kay, who quit as chief weapons inspector, cleared the White House of using US intelligence agencies to build a case for war by creating a false impression of Saddam's WMD.
The report has named Natwar Singh as a beneficiary.
