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Simon Ostrovsky
Iraqi minister vows Baghdad security is top priority
A bomb blast killed three people and wounded 11 in one of Baghdad’s main squares on Thursday as the interim defence minister said restoring security to the capital was top…
Chaos at Saddam trial as lawyer is ejected
The trial of Saddam Hussein over the massacre of Shi’ites in the 1980s degenerated into a chaotic shouting match on Monday after the ejection of one of the deposed Iraqi…
Town wants Saddam’s chemical suppliers to pay
An X-ray of Kamil Abdel Qader’s lungs show a lower third that is entirely scarred — lasting damage from the poisonous gas that rained down on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja in…
Iraq air force needs more than new coat of paint
Home to hundreds of aircraft under Saddam Hussein’s ousted regime, the dusty al-Muthana air base outside the Iraqi capital today hosts just three lonely cargo planes. After…