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Saddam Hussein could be executed within hours, an official close to the Iraqi Prime Minister told The Times.

“He should be executed this weekend, even within hours. It depends on finalising paperwork and deciding on the location,” the Iraqi official said.

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Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, sentenced to death for his role in 148 killings in 1982, will have his sentence carried out by Sunday, NBC News reports.

I don’t know if he’d have any way of legally doing this in the US.

A guy from a small village located near Novosibirsk, Russia has a hobby. His hobby is to make full size models of old tanks.

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Once he got a little tour across the neighborhood on his new example of a World War II tank. That made a lot of panics in the quite Siberian area - police arrived to see why the tanks entered the village.

SECRET talks in which senior American officials came face-to-face with some of their most bitter enemies in the Iraqi insurgency broke down after two months of meetings, rebel commanders have disclosed. The meetings, hosted by Iyad Allawi, Iraq’s former prime minister, brought insurgent commanders and Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador to Iraq, together for the first time.

I’m sooooooo going to invade the Republic of Kiribati!