Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Saddam Hussein struggled briefly after American military guards handed him over to Iraqi executioners. But as his final moments approached, he grew calm. He clutched a Quran as he was led to the gallows, and in one final moment of defiance, refused to have a hood pulled over his head [...]

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By AP
Within days of taking power, Saddam Hussein summoned about 400 top officials and announced he had uncovered a plot against the ruling party.
The conspirators, he said, were in that very room.
As the 42-year-old Saddam coolly puffed on a cigar, names of the supposed plotters were read out.
As each name was called, secret police led [...]

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NBC News
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 reported Thursday. According to a U.S. military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity, Saddam will be hanged before the start of the Eid religious holiday, which [...]

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Reuters
ZURICH – The UN human rights chief on Thursday called for restraint by Iraqi authorities over Saddam Hussein’s death sentence, saying there were concerns about the fairness of the original trial.
“The appeal judgment is a lengthy and complex decision that requires careful study,” Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human [...]

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The Canadian Press
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada’s Arctic, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake.
The mass of ice broke clear from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 800 kilometres south of the North Pole. Warwick Vincent of Laval [...]

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London Evening Standard
Schools that fail to show enthusiasm in rooting out prejudice against homosexuals should be reported to the police by pupils and parents, a Home Office report recommended yesterday.
It called for parents and children to identify schools that ignore “homophobic” language in the playground and teachers who produce “homophobic” [...]

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WND
London Evening Standard
More amazing details of former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger’s theft and deliberate concealment of classified documents emerged last week – just before the Christmas holiday, at a time few Americans were watching the news.
In a report by National Archives Inspector General Paul Brachfeld, we learn, more than three [...]

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CNSNews
Wisconsin’s Democratic governor should reimburse victims of recent armed robberies in the state because its citizens are not permitted to carry concealed weapons and protect themselves when confronted by criminals, a gun rights group said.
It’s “time for politicians to pay the price for their decisions,” said Joe Waldron, executive director [...]

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Daily Mail UK
British scientists are on the verge of producing a revolutionary flu vaccine that works against all major types of the disease.
Described as the ‘holy grail’ of flu vaccines, it would protect against all strains of influenza A – the virus behind both bird flu and the nastiest outbreaks of winter [...]

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Democracy-Project
The Examiner’s editorial coins the word “ridiculosity” to describe former President Carter’s roundly chastised one-sided diatribe book against Israel, concluding:
Everybody is entitled to their opinion, just not to their own set of facts. That observation has particular relevance for Carter because, as Stein [highly reputed Middle East scholar, who resigned from [...]

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WorldNetDaily
Christians may be fleeing war-torn Iraq and the fighting Islamic factions there to Syria, but that nation also holds “ruthless” positions against Christianity which range from life in prison for talking about your beliefs to death for a Muslim who converts, according to a ministries working there.
“It’s better than Iraq, but it’s no bed of [...]

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Christian Post
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The idealism of the millennial generation is that they are optimistic, mission-focused, and global, said InterVarsity Christian Fellowship President Alec Hill on the first day of one of the world’s largest student missions conferences.
“This generation is more connected. It is a smaller world for them,” Hill told The [...]

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By Dutch Sheets
CBN.com – A few years ago I was given a double-billed cap with one bill pointing to the left, the other to the right. The words on the front of the cap, “I’m the leader, which way did they go?” are intended to prompt the obvious question, “Who, really, [...]

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Christian Newswire
On the observance of the 40th anniversary of Kwanzaa (celebrated Dec. 26 to Jan. 1) Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, is calling on blacks to abandon this “godless holiday.” Kwanzaa was founded by Maulana Karenga in 1966 to “help [...]

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CBN News
- Lindsay Giambattista, 16, lives in a comfortable home in the suburbs, but she spends her time at Taylor’s Closet.
“Clothes to teenage girls are not their lives, but a very important part of their lives,” said Lindsay.
The teen entrepreneur said her idea to create and manage a clothing boutique for needy [...]

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