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In 2021 the Russian state-owned news agency Sputnik said that an anonymous Iraqi interpreter claimed that Saddam Hussein was actually found praying in a normal room in the farmhouse near the site where the United States claimed to have found him, and the story that he had been found in the spider hole was an American fabrication. [10]
The 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge (Arabic: تطهير حزب البعث), also called the Comrades Massacre [1] [2] (Arabic: مجزرة الرفاق), was a public purge of the Iraqi Ba'ath Party orchestrated on 22 July 1979 by then-president Saddam Hussein [3] six days after his arrival to the presidency of the Iraqi Republic on 16 July 1979.
Saddam was led to believe that his interrogator was a high-ranking U.S. government official with direct access to U.S. President George W. Bush, when in reality he was in a relatively low-level position at the time. [7] [8] Piro discussed the interrogation process during an interview on the television news magazine 60 Minutes in January 2008. [8]
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1330, England: Edward III assumed royal power, arrested Isabella of France and executed Roger Mortimer. 1388, Goryeo: General Yi Sŏng-gye of Goryeo led a military coup that deposed King U, murdered General Ch'oe Yŏng, and installed puppet ruler King Chang and eventually King Gongyang. Yi later crowned himself, starting the Joseon dynasty.
The deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein was tried by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity during his time in office.. The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam and his aides for charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide [1] dating back to ...
Soldiers on patrol during the American occupation of Ramadi, 16 August 2006. The occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) began on 20 March 2003, when the United States invaded with a military coalition to overthrow Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and continued until 18 December 2011, when the final batch of American troops left the country.
Americans have been accused of trying to overthrow the Democratic Republic of Congo’s government on Sunday in a deadly coup that resulted in dozens of arrests.. A spokesperson for the country ...