Under Saddam Hussein, there was no freedom in what you could say in the theatre.
It is Iraq's biggest challenge in many years, said Zebari, pointing to the era under Saddam Hussein when Iraq was sanctioned and boycotted.
Last year, he ordered a mentally ill woman released from jail after she was charged with helping an Iraqi spy agency under Saddam Hussein.
Between October, 2005, and September, 2006, the United States admitted two hundred and two Iraqis as refugees, most of them from the years under Saddam.
Many of these communities suffered great oppression under Saddam Hussein.
KARBALA, Iraq (CNN) -- Crowds of Shia Muslims Wednesday chanted and danced in the streets of this holy city on the final day of a pilgrimage long suppressed under Saddam Hussein's rule.
The ceremony honoring the anniversary of al-Kadhim's death is not one of the most important in the Shiite faith, but it has gained significance in Iraq because the ceremony was banned under Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime.
The Kurdish leader added, "I think the Kurds can play a very important role in re-uniting Iraqi society because they have a very good relationship with the Shiites" -- Iraq's majority Muslim group -- "and they are at the same time mainly Sunnis, " referring to the minority group, which held power under Saddam's Baath Party.
Susan Lindauer, who worked for Wyden when he was a congressman and later served as a press secretary to now-former Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Ill.), is " accused of conspiring to act as a spy for the Iraqi Intelligence Service and engaging in prohibited financial transactions involving the government of Iraq under dictator Saddam Hussein, " according to AP.
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Under former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, the sheik said, they often buried more than three dozen unidentified corpses a month.
KIRKUK, Iraq (CNN) -- Shallow graves found on the edge of a military base southwest of Kirkuk could provide answers to the whereabouts of Iraqis who disappeared under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Russia and France have outstanding oil contracts with the former regime of Saddam Hussein, reached under the oil-for-food program.
We should be under no illusions on this point: Saddam Hussein did not build his enormous war machine, at staggering expense to his nation and people, simply to seize Kuwait.
The UN administered the oil-for-food programme from 1996 to 2003, when Saddam Hussein's Iraq was under sanctions for having invaded Kuwait.
For example, in 1999, the German multinational Siemens sold Saddam Hussein many sets of lithotripters under the rubric of medical equipment Iraq has been permitted to purchase as part of the so-called "oil for food" program.
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Under the headline "Risks of Abandoning Deterrence, " Mr. Gaffney argues that Saddam's current machinations (2) adds urgency to ensuring the U.S. retains the most effective possible means of deterring the Iraqi despot's potential use of weapons of mass destruction.
For the first time since Saddam Hussein struck it with scud missiles during the First Gulf War, Jerusalem has come under attack.
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Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, activities perceived to be contrary to the moral code of Islam have come under repeated attack, with alcohol shops targeted in Baghdad and other cities.
In 1981 it bombed Saddam Hussein's Osirak reactor, and in 2007 it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor under construction.
He claimed, wrongly, that the State Department Bureau's of Intelligence and Research (INR) had, under his leadership, been the only intelligence agency to assess correctly the actual pre-invasion status of Saddam Hussein's various weapons of mass destruction programs.
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