But the US president said the punishment for the former Iraqi ruler will be decided by 'the citizens of Iraq'.
Commenting on the recent article on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the Time magazine, the state Congress on Monday said that not only Modi, but Osama Bin Laden and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain had also featured in the magazine earlier.
Al Qaeda chief, Osama bin Laden, and ousted Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, have been nominated for the title of the 'Greatest Arab' of all time in a Middle Eastern variant of the BBC's Great Britons series.
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Head of Jordan's Bar Association Hussein Mjalli said volunteers had signed up at the their offices in Amman.
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim on Wednesday said international monitors could observe the proceedings.
The only real issue left was whether Saddam had decided to give up these horrible weapons of mass destruction, he said.
In a strong reaction, Congress said the execution was not the solution to the problem.
The government had earlier expressed opposition to Hussein's execution and cautioned that no steps should be taken that could delay restoration of peace in the troubled country.
'The proceedings in the Dujail trial were fundamentally unfair'.
Iraq's High Tribunal on Sunday sentenced former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein to death by hanging.
Twelve people, including two girls, were injured in running battles between protesters and police lasting several hours.
New Delhi observed that there should be no 'needless cruelty' even if it is a result of a judicial process.
The world body's headquarters was closed on Saturday and the statement of Qazi was posted on its website.
The UN Security Council has passed three resolutions to fortify Iraq's sovereignty, scrapping nuclear sanctions imposed during the Saddam Hussein reign and ending the controversial oil-for-food programme of the 1990s
The US and the UK may give this option if weapons inspectors report that the Iraqi dictator is refusing to disarm fully, a report said.
Saddam was sentenced to death for killing 148 Shias in 1982.
P V Bakthavatchalam will be part of the international panel of lawyers being constituted to defend Saddam Hussein.
Hussein and seven others are facing charges of crimes against humanity for the 1982 massacre of Shiite villagers.
A fatwa has been issued by a Jaipur Mufti against the film 'Le Gaya Saddam' which deals with Muslim divorce system following protests.
The former UN chief weapons inspector believes Saddam destroyed all his weapons of mass destruction in 1993.
This contradicts the earlier US claim that the former Iraqi president was hand-in-glove with Osama bin Laden.
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"I would have no hesitation. That's my work. That's my chosen pursuit -- to protect rights. His rights need protecting," Ramsey Clark said.
"The execution of the death sentence will be a form of judicial assassination," the CPI(M) said, urging all sections of the people to protest the death sentence.
According to the report, post war findings intimate Saddam Hussein "as distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime".
He issued a presidential decree to this effect on Friday.
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.
Does the new UN secretary-general support the death penalty? He won't say clearly.
But the US plans to keep over 5,000 prisoners deemed a threat to the coalition forces.
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Western diplomats said they would like to hand over the control of prisons as early as possible and that would include the transfer of custody of Saddam Hussain and his top officials.
'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.
The men with guns tend to know little finance, and establishing such a conspiracy then involves leakage of information, which is also dangerous, Ajay Shah points out.
This video establishes that the meeting of those accused of the Umesh Pal murder case took place in the jail and it will be probed if the conspiracy for the same hatched inside the district jail, a senior police officer said.
'... it must network its battlefield units quickly, securely, robustly,' notes Ajai Shukla.
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