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Chemical Ali admits ordered Kurd villages cleared



28 january 2006

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein's cousin told a court trying him for genocide on Sunday he had ordered Kurdish villages cleared in the 1988 "Anfal" campaign but insisted he was right to do so and had nothing to apologize for.


  

General: Kurd Brigade Will Go to Baghdad


Kurd General Says His Brigade Is Training Intensively for Urban Combat in Baghdad

January 17, 2007 - The Associated Press
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Writers

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A Kurdish army brigade from northern Iraq is undergoing intensive urban combat training for deployment to Baghdad, where it expects to take on the Mahdi Army Shiite militia, its commander said Saturday.


  

The Problem with Confronting Iran


Time
January 16, 2007
By TONY KARON

As if the Bush Administration didn't have a sufficiently tough challenge in securing Iraq in the face of insurgency and sectarian conflict, it has now added curbing Iran to its to-do list.

  

Iraq edges closer to Iran, with or without the US




Wednesday, January 17, 2007

LONDON - The Iraqi government is moving to solidify relations with Iran, even as the United States turns up the rhetorical heat and bolsters its military forces to confront Tehran's influence in Iraq, Times reported.

  

Bush plan hinges on 4 factors




Najmaldin Karim | Special to the Sentinel
January 15, 2007

President George W. Bush has argued for a new strategy in Iraq that will concentrate on providing security for Baghdad and its diverse religious and ethnic population. Although this change in the American military approach has been long overdue, it alone will not be enough to stop the violence in Iraq -- nor will it bring home U.S. troops any faster.

  

Hanging of Saddam`s aides filmed



15 January 2007

Iraqi officials have shown journalists video footage of the hanging of two of Saddam Hussein's aides, during which one of the men was decapitated.

  

Kurd genocide trial to resume without Saddam



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.

  

A regrettable rush to execution



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.


  

Justice, but No Reckoning



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.

  

A Chilling Photograph's Hidden History


WSJ
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.