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Iraq releases Saddam-era interior minister
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A former interior minister who served under Saddam Hussein has been released from an Iraqi prison after completing his jail sentence, a senior Justice Ministry official said on Tuesday.
Mahmoud Thiab al-Ahmed spent eight years in prison for his part in the campaign to drain marshes in southern Iraq. He was released on Monday, Deputy Justice Minister Bosho Ibrahim told Reuters.
Saddam Hussein accused people living in the marshes of treachery during the 1980-88 war with Iran. His government changed the water flow into the marshes and drained other areas to force out rebels hiding there, ruining a delicate natural habitat.
Iraq is still struggling to restore the dried-out marshes, which are now the source of fierce sandstorms that pose serious health risks.
The marshes in Iraq's south covered 9,000 square km (3,475 square miles) in the 1970s but had shrunk to just 760 square km by 2002.
Saddam was executed in 2006 in Iraq after being ousted from power in the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. Several of his senior aides have been executed or jailed.
(Reporting by Aseel Kami; editing by Andrew Roche)
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NO ONE thinks this… only the armchair generals at home on their PCs and the idiot reporters in tiny cubicles or reading teleprompters do. It is a politicians job to lie and a corporate networks, to create fantasy scenarios for you consumers, for their own political and financial interests and those of their sponsors.
Iran has no interest in developing a weapon and everyone in a position to know this knows it. So all this talk about a ‘window’ of opportunity, what Iran might do with its program, what other regional powers might do in response is just a waste of time.
The only significant ‘windows of opportunity’ are political, and the only war strategy being seriously considered is a change of government and neutralizing Iranian power and development in general. Democracy, stability, regional cooperation and most of all nationalism in the middle east are VERY dangerous for the west, and that has always been the bottom line.
The US does not have the option any more of friendly business relationships with middle eastern citizens, everyone hates them! Their only options now are client regimes – bribery and force.
The greatest economic threat of the Arab spring is regional independance.
There is no such thing as a strategy to destroy Irans nuclear infrastructure.
That’s poor mans brain food, now eat it up!
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