War crimes and Iraqi politics
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Marching top officials of Saddam Hussein&#39;s Sunni-based Baathist dictatorship through an Iraqi courtroom a little more than five weeks before the election of a legitimate Iraqi government is such a breathtakingly bad idea that you would almost think it had
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 22 -- Legislators were outraged, insults were hurled. Opponents dragged out old ethnic divisions and warned of a dark collusion.
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Key figures about Iraq since the war began in March 2003
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THE HAGUE, Sept. 27 -- The U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday sentenced the former head of the Bosnian Serb parliament to 27 years in prison for a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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Civil war or not, some human rights experts say Iraq is showing precursor signs of genocide
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John Kerry&#39;s escalating criticism of George W. Bush&#39;s policy in Iraq raises a question fundamental to democracy: How far can the opposition go in attacking the president in the midst of a war?
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In the months before the invasion of Iraq, the United States groomed exiled opposition groups as the nucleus of a future government to replace Saddam Hussein. Now with elections approaching, the parties still enjoy little support among ordinary Iraqis who view them as corrupt puppets of Washington.
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Human Rights Watch gives details of torture and abuse in prisons in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq.
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CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. -- An unprecedented gathering this week of international war crimes prosecutors -- those seeking justice for recent atrocities and two who made history at the Nazi trials at Nuremberg 62 years ago -- issued a joint appeal to the world community to arrest war criminals still at large...
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BAGHDAD -- Leading Iraqi politicians called yesterday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the spiraling violence as US forces uncovered more bodies in the northern city of Mosul, apparent victims of an intimidation campaign by insurgents against Iraq's fledgling security forces.
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War crimes trials against senior lieutenants of Saddam Hussein will start in Baghdad next week, the interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said yesterday.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein and six   former commanders on charges of launching a genocidal campaign   against Iraq's ethnic Kurds in the late 1980s resumed in a   Baghdad courtroom on Tuesday.
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Iraq had a rare moment out of the world spotlight in the past week, eclipsed by the tsunami devastation in Southeast Asia. But the country saw a host of critically important political developments and deadly attacks that could cripple elections set for Jan. 30, and that suggest the insurgents are refining their strategy to wreck the vote.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq-- War crimes trials against Iraq&#39;s former Baath Party leaders will begin next week, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD - Leading Iraqi politicians called Friday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the spiraling violence as US forces uncovered more bodies in the northern city of Mosul, apparent
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Leading Iraqi politicians have called for a six-month delay in the January 30 election because of the spiralling violence as US forces uncovered more bodies in the northern city of Mosul, apparent victims of an intimidation campaign by insurgents against
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Key political players in Iraq's election: