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[by Carlos Latuff]
Did you know that last August, a US Navy sailor, Ariel J. Weinmann, was suspected of spying for Israel and has been held in prison for [...]

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Sky News is reporting that Saadoun Janabi, a member of the legal defense team for Saddam Hussein has been kidnapped in Baghdad.
Update - Reuters is now reporting the kidnapping victim, also identified by police as Saadoun Dulaimi, is actually a defense lawyer for former Iraqi judge Awad al-Bander, who is one of Hussein’s co-defendants.
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Iraq says Jordan harbouring ‘terrorists’…
The Iraqi government accused Jordan on Sunday of allowing members of Saddam Hussein’s family living there to fund a network seeking to destabilize Iraq.
Government spokesman Laith Kubba said the former Iraqi dictator’s relatives in Jordan have “huge amounts of money” to support efforts to revive his Baath Party organizations.
“We don’t want [...]

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A novel Saddam Hussein reportedly finished writing a day before the U-S-led war in Iraq began will be published next week. The book includes a dedication from his daughter which reads: “to the one who taught us all the great values.”
Saddam Hussein’s family will publish next week a novel written by the ousted Iraqi leader [...]

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New version by Emad Hajjaj:

The original American Gothic by Grant Wood:

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Pleasure marriages, outlawed under Saddam Hussein, have begun to flourish again. “Al-Zaidi hopes to soon finalize his third muta’a, or “pleasure marriage,” with a green-eyed neighbor. This time, he talks about it openly and with obvious relish. Even so, he says, he probably still won’t tell his wife.”
At least Saddam did one right thing!

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