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Execution of Saddam Hussein Execution of Saddam Hussein. The execution of Saddam Hussein took place on Saturday, 30 December, 2006. Saddam was sentenced to death by hanging, after being convicted of crimes against humanity by the Iraqi Special Tribunal for the murder of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in 1982, in retaliation for an assassination attempt against him.
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James Foley (journalist) James Wright Foley was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria. He was beheaded in August 2014 purportedly as a response to American airstrikes in Iraq, thus becoming the first American citizen killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Before he became a journalist, Foley was an instructor for Teach For America. In 2009, he became an embedded journa
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Global Policy Forum Global Policy Forum. By the early 1970s, Saddam Hussein had risen to high rank in the Iraqi government and in 1979 he finally assumed the supreme leadership. His dictatorship ever since has been marked by extreme cruelty and repression against all his opponents.
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Iran: Death sentence against Iranian rapper in Germany This happened after a Shia cleric based in the Iranian city of Qom, Ayatollah Safi Golpayegani, issued a death sentence against Shahin Najafi for apostasy, the Persian-language Al Arabiya website reported on 9 May 2012. Al Arabiya dubbed Shahin Najafi as “Salman Rushdie of music”. Shahin Najafi takes the threats very seriously.
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His Highness Sheikh Jaber III His Highness Sheikh Jaber III, Emir of Kuwait, who died yesterday aged 79, fled into exile when Saddam Hussain invaded his oil-rich emirate in 1990. While the ruler and his entourage lived in comfort in Saudi Arabia, his citizens endured seven months of murder, rape, and torture at the hands of marauding Iraqis.
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How the Government Killed Martin Luther King, Jr. How the Government Killed Martin Luther King, Jr. 03 April 13. efore scoffing at this headline, you should know that in 1999, in Memphis, Tennessee, more than three decades after MLK's death, a jury found local, state, and federal government agencies guilty of conspiring to assassinate the Nobel Peace Prize winner and civil rights leader.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Redirected from Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.) Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. that evening.
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Execution Report: Napoleon Beazley Napoleon Beazley, 25, was executed by lethal injection on 28 May in Huntsville, Texas for the murder of a man he and two others carjacked. In April, Beazley, then 17, borrowed his mother's car and drove with two other youths to Tyler, Texas.
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Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein was born in the village of Al-Awja, in the Tikrit in Iraq. He never knew his father, Hussein 'Abd al-Majid, who disappeared five months before Saddam was born. Shortly before Saddam was born, Saddam's twelve-year-old brother died of cancer, leaving his mother very depressed in the final months of the pregnancy.
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- Saddam Hussein was a bloody and brutal dictator who kept his country of Iraq at war almost constantly after assuming power in 1979. At least one million people died due to the machinations of Saddam.
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House arrest Nigeria. 1  Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria was placed under house arrest on December 31, 1983, following a military coup which ousted his government (see: Nigerian Second Republic). 2  General Muhammadu Buhari, Military Head of State was confined to his residence following the palace coup which ejected him from office.
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- 1982 Hama massacre. The Hama massacre (Arabic language: مجزرة حماة‎) occurred in February 1982, when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies, under the orders of the country's then-president, Hafez al-Assad, besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Assad's government.
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"Stanley ""Tookie"" Williams" Execution: On December 13th, 2005 the world became a better place as they killed this piece of shit know as Stanley Tookie Williams. People cried and thought he should of been spared. But Arnold Schwarzenegger being the smart man he is denied clemency on the ruling.
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Saddam Hussein Saddam was hanged on the first day of Eid ul-Adha, 30 December 2006, despite his wish to be shot (which he felt would be more dignified). The execution was carried out at Camp Justice, an Iraqi army base in Kadhimiya, a neighborhood of northeast Baghdad.
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Abu Omar al-Baghdadi On 18 April 2010, al-Baghdadi was killed when a joint operation of American and Iraqi forces rocketed a safe house 10 kilometres (6 mi) southwest of Tikrit. ISI Minister of War Abu Ayyub al-Masri and al-Baghdadi's son were also killed in the attack and 16 others were arrested.
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'I told Tony Blair that if the weapons don't turn up, I'll be a thorn in his side.' Reg Keys on his fight for justice for his hero son who was murdered in Iraq After the formality of the repatriation, after the grim ceremony of the post-mortem, three weeks after his 20-year-old firstborn had been ambushed and brutally murdered while serving his country in Iraq, Reg Keys was finally standing in front of his son’s coffin.
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Adolf Eichmann Biography During his trial, Eichmann held firmly that he was just following orders. He was executed by the state of Israel in 1962, in Ramla, Isreal, for his role as coordinator of logistics for the final solution to the Jewish question..
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Who killed more Iraqis: Saddam Hussein or George W. Bush? Halabja chemical attack. The Halabja chemical attack (Kurdish: Kîmyabarana Helebce کیمیابارانی ھەڵەبجە), also known as the Halabja Massacre or Bloody Friday,[1] was a massacre against the Kurdish people that took place on March 16, 1988, during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan.
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Saudi princess given asylum in UK over fears she faces execution for having illegitimate child with British lover In 1980, Saudi Arabian diplomats protested to Britain over the ITV drama-documentary Death Of A Princess - which reconstructed the death of a young royal publicly executed with her lover for adultery. Britain's ambassador to Saudi Arabia was expelled and export orders cancelled.
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Degenerative Disc Disease and Occipital Neuralgia degenerative disc disease (DDD) of the vertebral column, is a condition that can be painful and can greatly affect the quality of one... Occipital neuralgia, also known as C2 neuralgia, Arnold's neuralgia, is a medical condition characterized by chronic pain in the uppe...
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- But most of the early coverage skewed it that way…. Time Magazine: “Inmate Confesses To Shooting Tupac Shakur in 1994”. MTV News: “…an imprisoned man has admitted to shooting the late rapper/actor during a robbery at Manhattan’s Quad Studios in November 1994.”. Gawker: “Some Guy: I Shot Tupac”.
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Saddam Hussein The plan failed and Saddam fled across the desert on a donkey to Egypt. Four years later in 1963, the Ba'ath Party did overthrow Qassem, Saddam returned home and started to push for power, but within months there was a counter-coup.
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Queens imam and his assistant executed in broad daylight Queens imam and his assistant executed in broad daylight. By Megan McGibney, Georgett Roberts, Larry Celona and Stephanie Pagones. August 13, 2016 | 3:18pm | Updated August 15, 2016 | 8:14pm.
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British aid worker murdered in Afghanistan was 'shot in the head by terrorists after suicide bomber killed security guard at restaurant where he was eating' British aid worker murdered in Afghanistan was 'shot in the head by terrorists after suicide bomber killed security guard at restaurant where he was eating'. Del Singh died in assault on heavily fortified restaurant in Kabul.
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Triptych: Condemned to Death Three views of Lewis Payne (a.k.a. Lewis Powell) in April 1865, three months before his execution by hanging, wearing the same sweater. View full size. Photographs (wet collodion, glass plate) by Alexander Gardner.
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Iraq Civilian Death Toll Higher Under Obama than Bush In Bush's last year in office, the Iraqi civilian death toll was at around 10,000. Under Obama, it hit 20,000 in 2014. And it's still very high. Nearly 19,000 civilians were killed in Iraq between January 2014 and October 2015 -- a toll the United Nations calls staggering in a new report. This is worse than all but two of the worst years under Bush. By Bush's last year in office, the Surge, which Obama opposed, had worked and the violence had died down.