Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations timeline
C.I.A. Documents: U.S. Had Knowledge of 1980s Chemical Attacks in Iran
A new report from Foreign Policy says that the U.S. knew Saddam Hussein was planning to launch a chemical weapons attack in the Iran-Iraq war, and still provided him with support. The report reveals recently declassified documents from the C.I.A. According to Foreign Policy, the U.S. provided information to the Iraqi government on Iranian troop […]
The Young Iraqi Translator Who Gave His Life for the American Effort
As America and the people of Iraq are challenged to make sense of the decade that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people who witnessed the violence and the cauldron of change that accompanied the fall of Saddam Hussein are not here to testify. In their eyes is a story of […]
Tapes Reveal a Merciless, Fearful Saddam Hussein
It is the Iraqi version of Richard Nixon’s Oval Office tapes – hours of audio files recorded inside the office of Saddam Hussein during his tenure as Iraqi President in the 1980s. Almost five years after Hussein’s execution, much of the collection has still never been made public. But 20 new recordings, transcripts, and high-level documents […]