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The graphic depicts Hussein as a small red figure lying on its back in a spider hole, also highlighting other features of the hiding place including an air vent, fan, and entrance hidden by rubble. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The simple shape of the design later became subject to pareidolia online, with examples of the graphic's likeness in foods and other ...
Montana Management is a trust fund once owned by Saddam Hussein.It has a 2% holding in the Lagardère Group; however all its holdings are frozen.. The name was lifted from the money-laundering front company controlled by fictional drug lord Tony Montana in the 1983 film Scarface.
In 1957, at the age of 20, Saddam Hussein joined the nascent Ba'ath Party, which was founded on a socialist form of Pan-Arabism.After participating in an unsuccessful 1959 assassination attempt on then Prime Minister of Iraq Abd al-Karim Qasim, Saddam became a fugitive, and eventually fled to Syria and then Egypt.
Saddam Hussein cared more about his place in Iraq's history than the opinion of the citizenry he ruled over, said the former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who led the interrogation of the ...
Two Iraqi officials report that there was a torture dungeon operating for years in one of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods.
Samir Vincent also known as Samir Ambrose Vincent (born 23 October 1940) [1] is an ethnic Assyrian Iraqi American that pleaded guilty in January 2005 to being an illegal agent for Saddam Hussein's government and helping to skim money from the Oil-for-Food Programme [2] which earned him millions of dollars in the process.
After Saddam Hussein was deposed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi Governing Council and the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance printed more Saddam dinar notes as a stopgap measure to maintain the money supply until a new currency could be introduced.
The Arms-to-Iraq affair concerned the uncovering of the government-endorsed sale of arms by British companies to Iraq, then under the rule of Saddam Hussein.The scandal contributed to the growing dissatisfaction with the Conservative government of John Major and the atmosphere of sleaze that contributed to the electoral landslide for Tony Blair's Labour Party at the 1997 general election.