'Today we witnessed a landmark event in the history of Iraq: Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal, ' Mr. Bush said to roars of approval in a hockey auditorium packed with supporters in Grand Island, Neb.

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Fuad Hussein, an Iraqi who has returned from abroad and is now in charge of revising the curriculum, says he plans to set up a committee made up of Iraqis from different religious, political and ethnic groups to debate and rewrite Iraq's history.

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