Saddam Hussein was a cruel ... most was not the rope nor the scaffold nor the loud crack when the dictator’s neck broke, but Saddam’s face in the moments beforehand. It bore more than a ...

Saddam Hussein’s extreme brutality, as well as his volatile nature, earned him the nickname “madman of the Middle East.” But this label is misleading. Saddam was not "mad"; he was shrewd and ...

U.S. officials shared the information with Iraq even though they knew that Saddam Hussein's military was likely to respond by attacking with the lethal nerve agent sarin and other chemical weapons ...

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"Bush developed a sense that there was unfinished business from the first Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s, that leaving Saddam in power had been a mistake,” recalled journalist Barton Gellman.