January 8, 2007
Thibauld Malterre

BAGHDAD -  The trial of six former Iraqi officials over the mass killing of 182,000 Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s resumes Monday but without their executed co-accused Saddam Hussein.

January 3, 2007 / By Peter W. Galbraith

IN HIS FINAL minutes, one of Saddam Hussein's executioners shouted, "Go to hell, Saddam." The condemned man replied dryly, "You mean the Iraq that is today." After his body dropped through the trap door, the assembled witnesses chanted Shi'ite slogans.

December 30, 2006
Washington Op-Ed Contributor / By NAJMALDIN KARIM

MY personal battle with Saddam Hussein — which began in 1972 when I abandoned my medical career in Mosul, Iraq, and joined the Kurdish armed resistance — is at an end. To execute such a criminal, a man who reveled in his atrocities, is an act of justice.

The Ayatollah's agents come calling
By JOSHUA PRAGER
December 2, 2006; Page A1

Twenty-six years ago, a picture of an execution in Iran won the Pulitzer Prize. But the man who took it remained anonymous. Until now.

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The president of        Iraq's Kurdish Autonomous Region issued a strongly worded rebuke of the Iraq Study Group's report on the situation of Iraq and recommendations for US policy, describing it as "unrealistic and inappropriate".

By Najmaldin Karim
Special to washingtonpost.com
Saturday, December 2, 2006; 12:00 AM

The media are building up the forthcoming report of the Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State James Baker, and former Democratic Congressman, Lee Hamilton, as the solution to America's problems in Iraq.

27 November 2006

A Kurd has testified how he survived a firing squad by Iraqi forces at the resumption of Saddam Hussein's genocide trial in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

By SAMEER N. YACOUB and JAMAL HALABY

BAGHDAD, Iraq Nov 27, 2006 (AP)— An Iraqi Kurd who said he survived a firing squad of Saddam Hussein's soldiers testified Monday in the former dictator's genocide trial, describing the day nearly two decades ago when he watched as his mother and sisters were shot to death.

  By Sameer N. Yacoub The Associated Press, 27 November 2006

Iraqi Kurd says he witnessed executions of his family members 

BAGHDAD, Iraq // Two Iraqi Kurds who left their homeland for the United States after Saddam Hussein's crackdown on the minority group testified today in the former dictator's genocide trial, describing harrowing days of firing squads and mass graves.

 By Kirk Semple / The New York - November 9, 2006

BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq predicted in a televised interview that former President Saddam Hussein would be hanged by the end of the year.