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  Saddam Hussein — Infoplease.com
Following the war, Hussein weathered a Kurdish rebellion in the north and quelled a Shiite insurrection in the south, while his country suffered the effects of international economic sanctions.
Hussein survived the invasion, but was not captured until Dec., 2003.
Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death in the Dujail case in Nov., 2006; after an unsuccessful appeal he was hanged in Dec., 2006.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0824631.html   (532 words)

  
  Saddam Hussein - MSN Encarta
Hussein’s regime was characterized by brutal suppression of internal opposition.
Hussein became vice chairman of the council in 1969.
Hussein’s small clique of friends and family was divided after the war, and in the following years Hussein arrested, exiled, and killed many among them who were thought to threaten his rule.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761565237   (1175 words)

  
 Fashion File - Hussein Chalayan
Hussein Chalayan is, without a doubt, the king of the conceptual fashion show.
Hussein Chalayan’s show for fall 2003 was, as usual, a complex and conceptual affair; but his collection, from the styling to the clothing, seemed easier to comprehend than usual.
Hussein Chalayan is famous for complex offerings that often befuddle the audience and this season was no exception.
www.fashionfile.com /designers/HusseinChalayan.html   (355 words)

  
 Saddam Hussein killer file
Hussein is recruited by his uncle to assassinate a prominent communist in Tikrit, killing his victim, a distant cousin, with a single shot to the head.
Hussein's regime comes closer to its final extinction on 22 July when his sons are killed in a fierce gun battle with US forces at a villa on the western outskirts of Mosel, the largest city in northern Iraq.
Hussein's luck finally runs out on the evening of 13 December when he is captured alive by US troops during a raid on a farm 15 km south of Tikrit in the Sunni Triangle and near his home village of al-Awja.
www.moreorless.au.com /killers/hussein.html   (9074 words)

  
 Biography - His Majesty King Hussein bin Talal
His Majesty King Hussein bin Talal, the father of modern Jordan, will always be remembered as a leader who guided his country through strife and turmoil to become an oasis of peace, stability and moderation in the Middle East.
Early in young Hussein’s life, and on July 20, 1951, his grandfather King Abdullah was martyred at al-Aqsa mosque in al-Quds (Jerusalem).
King Hussein always believed that Jordan’s people are its biggest asset, and throughout his reign he encouraged all -including the less fortunate, the disabled and the orphaned- to achieve more for themselves and their country.
www.kinghussein.gov.jo /biography.html   (1138 words)

  
 Iraqis react with joy, anger to Hussein death sentence - CNN.com
In the climax to a trial that began more than a year ago, a combative Hussein and two other defendants Sunday were sentenced to death by hanging for a brutal crackdown in 1982 in the Shiite town of Dujail.
Along with Hussein, his half brother and former intelligence chief Barzan Hassan, and former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court Awad Bandar also were sentenced to death.
Hussein is also in the middle of another trial involving the 1988 Anfal campaign, the government offensive in the country's Kurdish region.
www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/11/05/dujail.saddam   (1098 words)

  
 Online NewsHour: King Hussein -- February 5, 1996
Hussein was born in 1935 in Amman to the royal Hashemite family.
KING HUSSEIN: The losses were tremendous, but the fact is that we are proud that we fought honorably and we are proud of our men, proud of the fact that despite all the odds, we were able to stand Israel.
KING HUSSEIN: We quarrel, we agree, we are friendly, we are not friendly, but we have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children and their children's children.
www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june99/hussein_2-5.html   (2746 words)

  
 /Hussein1.htm
Hussein's father, Hussein al-Majid, died or abandoned the family (according to who is reporting the story), within a short time of his birth.
Saddam finished intermediate school (roughly the equivalent of 9th Grade) at the age of sixteen, and attempted to be admitted to the prestigious Baghdad Military Academy.
Hussein has managed to survive the loss of a large portion of his army, a major psychological defeat, and control of the Northern and Southern part of Iraq, yet he continues in power in Iraq.
www.emergency.com /hussein1.htm   (1572 words)

  
 Hussein 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Hussein's reign was marked by the differences introduced by the new Palestinian refugees and the original population of Jordan.
In the international arena, he was regarded as one of the USA's more reliable allies in the Middle East, though he did not join the USA in their condemnation of Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in 1990.
Hussein had 12 children: Alia, Abdullah, Faisal, Zein, Aisha, Haya, Ali, Abeer, Hamzah, Hashim, Iman, and Raiyah.
lexicorient.com /e.o/hussein_1.htm   (698 words)

  
 Hussein, Saddam. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
On Aug. 2, 1990, Hussein ordered an Iraqi invasion of neighboring Kuwait; however, Iraq was forced out in early 1991 by an international military coalition (see Iraq; Persian Gulf War).
Following the war, Hussein weathered a Kurdish rebellion in the north and quelled a Shiite insurrection in the south, while his country suffered the effects of international economic sanctions.
Hussein’s resistance to UN-supervised weapons inspections imposed as part of the conditions for ending the Gulf War led to U.S. and British bombing raids against Iraq beginning in 1998.
www.bartleby.com /65/hu/HusseinS.html   (357 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Timeline: Saddam Hussein Dujail trial
Saddam Hussein and his half-brother and former intelligence chief, Barzan al-Tikriti, are charged with ordering the murder of 148 people in the later phase of the crackdown on Dujail.
After Saddam Hussein rejects the judge's warnings against using the trial as a political platform, the press is barred from the rest of the hearing.
Saddam Hussein and four other defendants who had boycotted the trial on Wednesday did not reappear, while the remaining three were barred by the judge because of what he called chaos and disorderly behaviour outside the courtroom.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/4507568.stm   (5481 words)

  
 Saddam Hussein - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
On Aug. 2, 1990, Hussein ordered an Iraqi invasion of neighboring Kuwait ; however, Iraq was forced out in early 1991 by an international military coalition (see Iraq ; Persian Gulf War).
Hussein survived the invasion, but was not captured until Dec., 2003.
Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death in the Dujail case in Nov., 2006.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-husseins1.html   (555 words)

  
 Saddam Hussein
Hussein was born in 1937 in the village of Tikrit, Iraq.
Hussein was named the vice chairman of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council and vice president under General Ahmed Hassan Bakr.
Hussein’s brutality and willingness to torture and murder anyone he sees as a threat has earned him the moniker, Butcher of Baghdad.
novaonline.nvcc.edu /eli/evans/his135/Events/Hussein/Hussein.html   (930 words)

  
 U.S. War Crimes Ambassador Reviews Saddam Hussein's Criminality
Hussein as the quisling governor of Kuwait during the early weeks of the occupation.
She wrote, "President Saddam Hussein, whose government is now probably the world's most repressive, wants to control all contact between Iraqis and outsiders, and can in effect veto the assignment to Iraq of even United Nations officials." Large aid organizations based in Europe have been barred from areas in Iraq under the regime's controls.
Hussein's criminal regime, and who opposed efforts to bring the regime to justice, It is in everyone's long-term interests -- economic, political, and moral -- to side with justice for the peoples of Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, and elsewhere.
www.fas.org /news/iraq/2000/09/iraq-000918.htm   (4544 words)

  
 Saddam Hussein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saddam Hussein Takrity was born in the town of Al-Awja, 13 km (8 mi) from the Iraqi town of Tikrit in the Sunni Triangle, to a family of shepherds from the al-Begat tribal group.
Hussein and his lawyers’ contesting the court's authority and maintaining that he was yet the President of Iraq.
Hussein (Sometimes also transliterated as Hussayn or Hussain) is not a surname in the Western sense but a patronymic, his father's given personal name; Abd al-Majid his grandfather's; al-Tikriti means he was born and raised in (or near) Tikrit.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saddam_Hussein   (9830 words)

  
 King Hussein
King Hussein has always believed that Jordan’s people are its biggest asset, and he continues to encourage all -including the less fortunate, the disabled and the orphaned- to achieve more for themselves and their country.
King Hussein has persevered in his pursuit of genuine Arab reconciliation, wherever a conflict may arise between neighbors or within a country, such as his recent mediation in the Yemeni civil war.
At the end of January 1999, Hussein returned to Amman in between cancer treatments in the United States to announce that his oldest son, Abdullah, would succeed him on the throne.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Hussein.html   (1069 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Saddam Hussein profile
Saddam Hussein remains largely isolated from his people, keeping the company of a diminishing circle of trusted advisers - largely drawn from his close family or from the extended clan based around the town of Takrit, north of Baghdad.
And, for all that Saddam Hussein is criticised and reviled, his opponents have not been able to nominate anyone else who might hold Iraq together - with its Kurds in the north, Sunni Muslims in the centre and Shi'ia in the south.
The fiction of Saddam Hussein as a benevolent ruler was exposed by two major and catastrophic miscalculations of foreign policy for which his country and his people have paid dearly.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/1100529.stm   (1155 words)

  
 Saddam Hussein - SourceWatch
Saddam Hussein, the dictator who ruled Iraq until his regime was overthrown in the U.S.-led 2003 invasion, was executed in Baghdad by hanging on December 30, 2006.
Saddam Hussein was hung at dawn December 30, 2006, for crimes against humanity, which was "a dramatic, violent end for a leader who ruled Iraq by fear for three decades before he was toppled by a U.S. invasion four years ago," Mariam Karouny reported for Reuters.
The trial of Saddam Hussein is the lynchpin of America's bid for global hegemony and the verdict is already in: America loses," Al-Ahram Weekly, December 15-21, 2005.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Saddam_Hussein   (1295 words)

  
 Mark R. Levin on Saddam Hussein & war on National Review Online
Hussein — not America or Western civilization — has unleashed a breathtaking reign of murder and terror on Mideastern Muslims.
In 1979, when Hussein took power in Iraq, he immediately began murdering large numbers of Kurds, the majority of whom are Muslim.
Whereas Hussein sought to expand his rule with a conquering army, bin Laden seeks to impose his rule by inciting uprisings and overthrowing moderate Arab and Muslim governments from within.
www.nationalreview.com /contributors/levin101701.shtml   (544 words)

  
 Radio Amateur JY1 King Hussein of Jordan
Blackburn said King Hussein "promoted amateur radio to the hilt in Jordan" and saw to it that amateur radio classes we instituted in elementary schools.King Hussein also dropped in on meetings of the Royal Jordanian Radio Amateur Society in Amman.
Kilroy said his QSO with Hussein came right after a launch of the shuttle Colombia, and Hussein was monitoring the WA3NAN space shuttle retransmission frequency.
Hussein had been active in recent months from the US while seeking cancer treatment at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic.
www.users.skynet.be /on1cau/k_hussein.htm   (675 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hussein ordered from courtroom - Sep 25, 2006
Hussein's genocide trial had resumed Monday but without lawyers representing the ex-president or his six co-defendants.
Hussein's nine-member defense team announced Sunday that it would boycott the proceedings, citing the replacement of the chief judge and other alleged violations of legal procedures.
Hussein and six others others have been on trial since August 21 for a crackdown on Kurdish guerrillas in the late 1980s.
edition.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/09/25/saddam.trial   (460 words)

  
 Hussein
Saddam Hussein was wounded in the leg as a result a shot fired from a bodyguard.
Saddam Hussein played a leading and key role in planning and then carrying out the Revolution that day.
The Iraqis' confrontation that is called by Arabs and Iraqis 'The Mother of all Battles' (Um Al-Maarik), is where Iraq stood strong against the invasion, maintaining its sovereignty and political system.
www.cbv.ns.ca /dictator/hussein.html   (961 words)

  
 Saddam Hussein: A Dictator Fallen
Saddam Hussein is eventually discovered in the hole in the farm house (marked in red).
President of Iraq since 1979 (Vice President from 1968-79), Saddam Hussein was born in 1937, and raised near Tikrit, north of Baghdad.
On July 16, 1979, President Bakr resigned, and Saddam Hussein officially replaced him as president of the republic, secretary general of the Baath Party Regional Command, chairman of the RCC, and commander in chief of the armed forces.
www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,GH_Saddam,00.html   (992 words)

  
 Baby Name Hussein - Origin and Meaning of Hussein
Hussein has 4 variant forms: Husain, Husayn, Husein and Hussain.
Search for more names similar to Hussein starting with Hu-, Hus- or ending with -in, -ein.
Hussein is a very rare male first name and a popular surname, according to the 1990 U.S. Census.
www.thinkbabynames.com /meaning/1/Hussein   (135 words)

  
 Saddam Hussein
Bush insisted that Saddam Hussein's trial be held in Iraq so that an international tribunal would never expose America's history of support for the tyrant.
Saddam Hussein went to trial on Wednesday declaring he was still the president of Iraq.
The capture of Saddam Hussein is being treated as a celebratory occasion, but it is one that the Bush Administration might come to regret.
www.thenation.com /directory/saddam_hussein   (287 words)

  
 Words: Woe and Wonder
For instance, Hussein is also commonly written as Husayn – a variation noted by many authorities, including the 2002 Britannica, and preferred by some publications like the Middle East Quarterly.
Citizens were told that they owed their loyalty to the state and its president instead of to a local tribe and its chief.
Even though King Hussein was alive during the 1991 Gulf War, some newsrooms steadfastly avoided using "Saddam" because it was his given name.
www.cbc.ca /news/indepth/words/saddam_hussein.html   (2021 words)

  
 Flash Fun - The Real Hussein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The animation couldn't be worse and the audio could use some help too, but most people seem to enjoy it anyway.
I made a sequel to the Real Hussein because so many people requested one.
Also, I thought it would be a great way to launch my new web business, kizash.com.
www.toccionline.com /creations/realhussein   (258 words)

  
 A Living Tribute to the Legacy of King Hussein I
A Living Tribute to the Legacy of King Hussein I
This site is designed to be a living tribute to the legacy of King Hussein, the father of modern Jordan.
During his lifetime, he brought the wisdom to walk in the path of honour, the courage to follow his convictions, and an abiding compassion for others.
www.kinghussein.gov.jo   (86 words)

  
 Hussein Videos
The face of Saddam Hussein showed on the moon the day he was hanged.
Uday Hussein, the insane son of Saddam Hussein, suddenly starts shooting his AK-47 at a party without any particular reason, he must have been...
The devil threatens saddam to leave him to rule alone over earth.
www.metacafe.com /tags/hussein   (164 words)

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