Saddam&#39;s weapons of mass corruption
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Nobody will have been surprised by the conclusion of the Iraq Survey Group that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction.
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&#39;.the central lie of this campaign is the way Bush morphed Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, the religious fanatic and the secular dictator.
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Vivid allegations of widespread corruption at the U.N. oil-for-food program by the top U.S. arms inspector have added credibility to accusations the United Nations looked the other way while Saddam Hussein's government skimmed billions of dollars and offered kickbacks to European and Arab countries and officials.
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Companies that bought Iraqi oil from traders who allegedly bribed Saddam Hussein for contracts under the U.N. oil-for-food program could be implicated in a web of corruption uncovered by a U.N. panel, a Swiss criminal lawyer said Sunday.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein kept up the illusion that he had weapons of mass destruction before 2003 because he did not think the United States would invade, an FBI agent who questioned him said.
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Iraq appears to have destroyed its stockpiles of illicit weapons within months of the Persian Gulf War of 1991, and by the time of the American invasion in spring
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In the run-up to last year&#39;s invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration frequently cited alleged but largely circumstantial links between Osama bin Laden&#39;s terror network and a
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Description: The top US arms inspector contradicts the Bush administration&#39;s pre-war claims that Iraq had WMDs. After a 16-month investigation, Charles Duelfer concluded Saddam Hussein did not have the weapons but aspired to build them.
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CIA analyst Charles A. Duelfer's report on Iraq's weapons programs included lists of governments, political parties, companies and individuals from at least 44 nations who received vouchers to buy oil -- both legally and otherwise -- from the Iraqi government during Saddam Hussein's reign.
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Analysis: Prime Minister Maliki has suspended an entire brigade to cleanse it of corruption. But is it any more than a political gesture?
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Interviews with dozens of former and current Iraqi officials by congressional investigators have produced new evidence that Saddam Hussein micro-managed business deals under the U.N. oil-for-food program to maximize political influence with important foreign governments like Russia and neighboring Arab states.
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Iraqi government will meet with backers of Hussein to try to get them to end rebellion. â¢ Weapons discovered: US troops said they uncovered the largest weapons cache to date in Fallujah.
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A new survey by Transparency International (TI), an anti-graft organisation, also rated Nigeria, Chad, Myanmar, Azerbaijan and Paraguay among the world&#39;s most corrupt nations.
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An American who served as Iraqâs electricity minister before being jailed on corruption charges.
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The Central Intelligence Agency  has published hundreds of names of people, firms, political  parties and government officials Saddam Hussein purportedly  tried to buy off to get U.N. sanctions lifted.
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BAGHDAD : The rhetoric behind last year&#39;s invasion was called into question with a US admission that Saddam Hussein possessed no banned weapons at the time as US and Iraqi forces pressed their assault on rebel redoubts with a major operation south of the
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Majid is accused of having ordered 1988 gassing of the Kurds in Halabja that killed some 5,000 people. BAGHDAD - Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of Saddam Hussein nicknamed &quot;Chemical Ali&quot; for the gassing of