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Official: Saddam to be executed tonight — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein's impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime's atrocities.
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Year 2007 will definitely be without Saddam walking on the ground.... It's very imminent now and might become a fact at any minute. — The situation in Baghdad is tense now and US and Iraqi forces are heavily deployed on the streets. — We're hearing and reading more confirmations …
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A Death Sentence Affirmed — Saddam Hussein's trial was imperfect. But a perfect trial would have yielded the same result. — WITH TUESDAY'S decision by an Iraqi appeals body to affirm the death sentence of Saddam Hussein, the execution of the former tyrant could take place within weeks.
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The Rush to Hang Saddam Hussein — The important question was never really about whether Saddam Hussein was guilty of crimes against humanity. The public record is bulging with the lengthy litany of his vile and unforgivable atrocities: genocidal assaults against the Kurds …
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Iraq Prepares to Execute Hussein — The close of the final chapter on the brutal reign of Saddam Hussein drew ever closer today, as Iraqi officials prepared the last legal notice necessary before his execution, a red card that will be presented to the former dictator to inform him that his end is near, Iraqi officials said.
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Hanging Saddam — The NYT opines: … That's certainly true, but hanging Saddam is still the right thing to do. — I agree with - or, to put it more precisely, I give religious assent to - Pope John Paul II's teaching in Evangelium vitae that society:
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The Moderate Voice
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End of Another Year... You know your country is in trouble when: — The UN has to open a special branch just to keep track of the chaos and bloodshed, UNAMI. — Abovementioned branch cannot be run from your country. — The politicians who worked to put your country in this sorry state …
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Why We Need More Troops in Iraq — I've just spent 10 days traveling in the Middle East and speaking to leaders there, all of which has made one thing clearer to me than ever: While we are naturally focused on Iraq, a larger war is emerging. On one side are extremists and terrorists led …
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Thousands greet Somalia's PM in capital — MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's prime minister entered the capital Friday, a day after an Islamic movement's fighters retreated ahead of his Ethiopian-backed troops, and was welcomed by thousands of cheering residents of the battle-scarred city.
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Kay la Nansa - Kuwait's "Not to Forget Museum" — Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Kuwait's "Not to Forget Museum," a small complex devoted to archiving the history of the Invasion of Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm and the atrocities by and ultimate fate of Saddam Hussein and his regime.
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Saddam to hang today? Report: Saddam to be executed by 10 p.m. ET
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Reuters, ABCNEWS, Associated Press, Michelle Malkin, Right Wing Nut House, Ace of Spades HQ and PoliBlog (TM)
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Here's the post where I take on Ron Bailey of Reason Magazine. — Ron Bailey has put up a long attack on me on the Reason Magazine blog. It's his version of what happened at the Liberty Fund colloquium on Frank S. Meyer, which I've alluded to but avoided talking about in detail.
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Ann Althouse responds to Ron Bailey here . — It is a bizarre response.
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SOME THOUGHTS ON MOONBATTERY — A few days ago, radio talk show host Scott Hennen posted an email he received from a soldier in Iraq who witnessed John Kerry's visit to the troops in Baghdad. This soldier offered his own observations to the effect that Kerry's welcome was less than warm …
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Housework cuts breast cancer risk — Women who exercise by doing the housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, a study suggests. — The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport.
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BUCKING RUBINOMICS.... Last week, Paul Krugman offered the incoming Democratic majority some advice: do not place deficit reduction at the top of the priority list. — As Krugman explained, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin helped convince the party in the 1990s that deficit reduction was key to fiscal and budgetary policy.
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Middle School Girls Gone Wild — It's hard to write this without sounding like a prig. But it's just as hard to erase the images that planted the idea for this essay, so here goes. The scene is a middle school auditorium, where girls in teams of three or four are bopping to pop songs at a student talent show.
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THE SITUATION ROOM — Saddam Hussein's Final Hours; James Brown's Life Celebrated at the Apollo — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Thanks, Christine. And to our viewers …