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/ 24 November 2006
Ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of his murder from beyond the grave on Friday, in a statement read out the morning after he died of an unknown poison in a London hospital. ”You may succeed in silencing one man. But a howl of protest from around the world will reverberate, Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.”
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/ 13 October 2006
Britain’s army chief said the presence of British troops in Iraq was exacerbating security problems on the ground and they should be withdrawn soon. In bluntly worked comments to the Daily Mail newspaper, Chief of the General Staff General Richard Dannatt criticised post-war planning for Iraq and said the presence hurt British security globally.
Iraqi forces placed Baghdad under a blanket curfew throughout Saturday after United States troops arrested a man suspected of plotting to attack the capital’s government compound with suicide car bombings. US troops arrested a security guard at the home of the leader of the main Sunni Arab political bloc on Friday.
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/ 30 September 2006
Iraq’s government imposed a one-day curfew on the capital Baghdad on Saturday without explanation, ordering all cars and pedestrians off the streets. The United States military said it had arrested a man at the home of the leader of the main Sunni political bloc on suspicion of planning a series of car bomb attacks on the Green Zone, the vast government and diplomatic compound.
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/ 26 September 2006
Saddam Hussein was ejected from his genocide trial for a third day on Tuesday and his co-defendants tried to storm out after him, as chaos reined following the sacking of the chief judge last week. Judge Mohammed al-Ureybi had opened the hearing with a lecture to Saddam not to disrupt the proceedings.
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/ 18 September 2006
A former Kurdish guerrilla fighter accused Saddam Hussein of poisoning him with chemical weapons strikes in testimony at the ousted Iraqi leader’s genocide trial on Monday. Karwan Abdullah Tawfiq took off dark glasses to show the swollen lids of his eyes, which he said were permanently damaged by nerve poison that had completely blinded him for six months.