Read more Saddam Hussein stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/44/saddam-hussein.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 4:57:14 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68013/becks-latest-rant-obama-like-hussein-hitler.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGlenn Beck may have reached a new low last night when he implied President Obama’s plans to use AmeriCorps make him the equivalent of a fascist dictator, Gawker reports. One guest, Vets for Freedom vice chairman David Bellavia, fanned the flames by saying, “I’m not comparing my president to Saddam...http://www.newser.com/story/68013/becks-latest-rant-obama-like-hussein-hitler.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 28 Aug 2009 9:23:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67953/missing-picasso-found-in-iraq-probably-not.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIraqi security forces have secured a purported Pablo Picasso painting believed stolen from a Kuwaiti museum during the 1990 invasion, the Times of London reports. Only it’s probably not a Picasso. “It bears absolutely no relation to any Picasso that I can think of,” says one expert. Iraqi forces obtained...http://www.newser.com/story/67953/missing-picasso-found-in-iraq-probably-not.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 27 Aug 2009 15:45:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63822/iraq-bans-school-trips-to-saddams-grave.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIraq has banned school groups and all other organized visits to Saddam Hussein's grave after video emerged of a group of schoolgirls singing his praises, the BBC reports. The executed dictator is buried in his home village near Tikrit, and the site is still a place of pilgrimage for loyalists....http://www.newser.com/story/63822/iraq-bans-school-trips-to-saddams-grave.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 08 Jul 2009 5:58:34 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63541/biden-sob-saddam-rolling-over-in-his-grave.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJoe Biden presided over a huge naturalization ceremony in Baghdad today, CNN reports, as 237 US service members became American citizens. “We did it in Saddam’s palace,” Biden said, “and I can think of nothing better. That SOB is rolling over in his grave right now.” Biden called the newcomers...http://www.newser.com/story/63541/biden-sob-saddam-rolling-over-in-his-grave.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 04 Jul 2009 12:22:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63392/saddams-fbi-interviews-released.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTranscripts of Saddam Hussein's two dozen interviews with the FBI before his execution were released yesterday, after details were published last week by the New York Daily News , which obtained them through the Freedom of Information Act. Some details are still redacted, but the FBI says no "enhanced" techniques were...http://www.newser.com/story/63392/saddams-fbi-interviews-released.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Jul 2009 12:22:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62755/saddam-feared-iran-would-have-asked-bush-for-help.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSaddam Hussein feared Iran more than the US and once considered cutting a deal with George W. Bush, the Daily News reports. In newly declassified interrogations from 2004, Saddam said that if Iran threatened to attack, he "would have sought a security agreement with the US," says the FBI report....http://www.newser.com/story/62755/saddam-feared-iran-would-have-asked-bush-for-help.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 24 Jun 2009 19:01:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60715/cheney-ok-ok-saddam-wasnt-behind-911.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFormer Vice President Dick Cheney has finally acknowledged, despite previous claims to the contrary, that Saddam Hussein did not collaborate with al-Qaeda to launch the 9/11 attacks. CIA information on such a collaboration "turned out not to be true," he conceded in remarks before the National Press Club, reports Bloomberg....http://www.newser.com/story/60715/cheney-ok-ok-saddam-wasnt-behind-911.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 02 Jun 2009 2:38:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57202/iraq-spurns-baathists-despite-us-prodding.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDespite entreaties from Washington, Iraq’s majority-Shiite government is hardening its stance against the outlawed Sunni-dominated Baath party, the New York Times reports. Blamed by some for recent bombings of Shiites, Baathists are “filled with hate from head to toe," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said this week, after rejecting a US-British...http://www.newser.com/story/57202/iraq-spurns-baathists-despite-us-prodding.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Apr 2009 15:23:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56742/honeymooning-stay-at-hotel-saddam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne of Saddam Hussein's massive palaces is set to be converted into a world-class hotel, reports the New York Daily News, with crack Iraqi tourism officials eying the former dictator's sumptuous bedroom as the honeymoon suite. While the novelty might appeal to some, not everybody's convinced.http://www.newser.com/story/56742/honeymooning-stay-at-hotel-saddam.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 21 Apr 2009 7:47:00 CDT