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  US returns stolen Saddam Hussein sword to Iraq

  World | July 30, 2013 10:33 IST

  New York, Jul 30: A gold-laden sword looted from ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's personal office in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq has been returned to Iraqi authorities.The Homeland Security Department yesterday

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  Saddam Hussein gave $1.3 mn fortune to British family?

  World | October 29, 2012 8:08 IST

  London, Oct 28 : Slain Iraqi president Saddam Hussein once gave 840,000 pounds ($1.3 million) fortune to the father of a Briton who was murdered in Alps massacre, it has been claimed.Hussain gave the money

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  Saddam lookalike abducted, offered £205,000 to work in Hussein porn film

  World | September 15, 2012 13:48 IST

  Alexandria, Egypt, Sep 15: A Saddam Hussein lookalike said on Friday how gunmen kidnapped him and tried to force him to impersonate the tyrant in a porn film. Egyptian Mohamed Bishr was offered £205,000 to play

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  Ousted Maldives President Nasheed Rejects Police Summons

  World | February 15, 2012 15:49 IST

  Male, Feb 15: A defiant Mohammad Nasheed has rejected a police summons to record his statement on his controversial order to arrest a top judge when he was President, amid claims by his party that

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  Director Wants Naseer As Saddam

  Bollywood | May 11, 2011 18:15 IST

  Mumbai, May 11: Bollywood director Nalin Singh wants Naseeruddin Shah to play Saddam Hussein in his next film titled The Trial of Saddam Hussein."My script is ready and I will soon be approaching him for

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  Akbar Khan To Play Saddam Hussein

  Bollywood | April 28, 2011 16:56 IST

  Mumbai: Bollywood actor Akbar Khan will be seen playing the role of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein, says a media report.  Producer-director Suresh Kohli told HT: "When the idea came up to make the film,

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  WikiLeaks Near Release Of Secret US War Documents

  World | October 23, 2010 12:02 IST

  London:  The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret US documents in history -- hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of