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Saddam Hussein

July 2024

  • A photo of various crew members sitting on the floor of a room in a hotel

    ‘As complicit as Saddam’: people on BA flight held hostage in Kuwait sue UK government

    Claimants who were onboard BA149 claim airline and Thatcher’s government knew of risk before they landed in 1990

January 2024

  • Magnifying glass over the United Nations Development Programme UNDP company logo

    Rights and freedom
    UN staff on £1.5bn Iraq aid project ‘demanding bribes’

    Exclusive: whistleblowers allege large sums are being lost to corruption in Iraq as donors fail to track spending on postwar reconstruction

March 2023

  • Tony Blair attending the Scottish Labour party conference in Inverness in 2004.

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    History may yet be kind to Blair over the Iraq war

  • George Monbiot

    The Iraq invasion: 20 years on
    How many of those calling for Putin’s arrest were complicit in the illegal invasion of Iraq?

    George Monbiot
  • Part V (p. 268)

    The Audio Long Read
    Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like to an Iraqi – podcast

  • Marines in a light armoured vehicle pass a Saddam Hussein portrait in the centre of Tikrit in 2003.

    Iraq war: 20 years on
    Rifts remain in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq home town 20 years after his fall

February 2023

  • US Marines arrive to help Iraqi civilians pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad, Iraq. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

    Book of the day
    A Stranger in Your Own City by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad review – inside Iraq’s two decades of war

    The decorated journalist paints a tragic, brutal picture of the buildup to a conflict that engulfed a nation, and those who sought to profit from the war
  • Artwork by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.

    The long read
    Baghdad memories: what the first few months of the US occupation felt like to an Iraqi

    The long read: When I was 28, the US arrived in Baghdad. The soldiers were announced as liberators and their leaders talked of democracy. I watched the regime and Saddam statues fall, chaos reign and a sectarian war unfold
  • Some of the 1.5 million people who took part in the Stop the War demonstration in London in 2003.

    ‘A beautiful outpouring of rage’: did Britain’s biggest ever protest change the world?

    In February 2003, 1.5 million people protested in London against the looming conflict. They didn’t stop the war… but their legacy still looms large

December 2021

  • Volunteers in protective suits surrounded by flames.

    ‘Gushing oil and roaring fires’: 30 years on Kuwait is still scarred by catastrophic pollution

    Oilwells set alight by Iraqi forces in 1991 were put out within months, but insidious pollution still mars the desert

October 2021

  • Election officials count ballots in Baghdad, Iraq

    Turnout at Iraqi national election sluggish as many boycott polls

    Electoral commission says turnout was 41% as disillusioned youth and middle classes opt to stay home

August 2021

  • ** FILE ** A U.S. marine watches a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled in Firdaus Square, in downtown Bagdhad in this April 9, 2003 file photo. A car bomb destroyed a hotel in central Baghdad on Wednesday night, March 17, 2004, behind Firdaus Square, killing at least 10 people according to Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

    The Audio Long Read
    The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth – podcast

  • The last picture of Farzad Bazoft before his arrest

    ‘Saddam Hussein’s spies in London laid a trap – and sent my son Farzad to his death’

July 2021

  • A statue of Saddam Hussein being pulled down in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in April 2003.

    The long read
    The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth

    The long read: In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it – or rather, so much less

April 2021

  • Ramsey Clark in his role as defence counsel to Saddam Hussein, giving a press conference in Washington, 2006.

    Ramsey Clark obituary

  • As part of Saddam Hussein’s legal team, Ramsey Clark listens to proceedings as the former Iraqi president’s trial resumes in Baghdad, in November 2005.

    Ramsey Clark, attorney general who represented Saddam Hussein, dies at 93

October 2020

  • ** FILE ** Iraqi Vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri during a cermony at the huge Martyrs Monument in Baghdad on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2002. US troops are reported Wednesday Nov. 26, 2003, to have arrested the wife and daughter of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri.

    Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri obituary

    Ruthless Iraqi politician and military leader once seen as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein
  • Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri giving a salute in January 2003

    Iraq: Saddam Hussein’s right-hand man dies after years as fugitive

    Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri was ‘king of clubs’ in US wanted list and had $10m bounty on his head
  • ‘Down the back alleys of history’ … (clockwise from top left) A Manual of Mathematics, La confession coupée, 20 Slices of American Cheese, Poissons, ecrevisses et crabs.

    From cut-out confessions to cheese pages: browse the world's strangest books

    Edward Brooke-Hitching set out to curate the ultimate collection of bizarre books down the ages. He leads us around the Madman’s Library

May 2020

  • Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd

    The Murdoch media’s China coronavirus conspiracy has one aim: get Trump re-elected

    Kevin Rudd
    News Corp is campaigning full-bore for the US president, with reports of a Wuhan lab ‘intelligence’ dossier being seeded across its empire
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