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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.
As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalized oil and other industries. The state-owned banks were put under his control, leaving the system eventually insolvent mostly due to the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War, and UN sanctions. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy to grow at a rapid pace. Positions of power in the country were filled with Sunnis, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.
The Trial of Saddam Hussein was the trial of the deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi Interim Government for crimes against humanity during his time in office.
The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges, on 9 December 2003, to try Saddam Hussein and his aides for charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
The trial was viewed in some quarters as a kangaroo court or show trial.Amnesty International stated that the trial was "unfair," and Human Rights Watch noting that Saddam's execution "follows a flawed trial and marks a significant step away from the rule of law in Iraq."
Saddam was captured on December 13, 2003. He remained in custody by United States forces at Camp Cropper in Baghdad, along with eleven senior Ba'athist officials. Particular attention was paid during the trial to activities in violent campaigns against the Kurds in the north during the Iran–Iraq War, against the Shiites in the south in 1991 and 1999 to put down revolts, and in Dujail after a failed assassination attempt on July 8, 1982, during the Iran–Iraq War. Saddam asserted in his defense that he had been unlawfully overthrown, and was still the president of Iraq.
Saloth Sar (19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998), better known as Pol Pot (Khmer: ប៉ុល ពត), was a Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until his death in 1998. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea. From 1976 to 1979, he also served as the prime minister of Democratic Kampuchea. Pol Pot became leader of Cambodia on April 17, 1975. During his time in power he imposed agrarian socialism, forcing urban dwellers to relocate to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labor projects. The combined effects of forced labor, malnutrition, poor medical care, and executions resulted in the deaths of approximately 21% of the Cambodian population. In all, an estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million people (out of a population of slightly over 8 million) died as a result of the policies of his three-year premiership.
In 1979, after the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, Pol Pot fled to the jungles of southwest Cambodia, and the Khmer Rouge government collapsed. From 1979 to 1997, he and a remnant of the old Khmer Rouge operated near the border of Cambodia and Thailand, where they clung to power, with nominal United Nations recognition as the rightful government of Cambodia. Pol Pot died in 1998 while under house arrest by the Ta Mok faction of the Khmer Rouge. Since his death, rumours that he was poisoned have persisted.
Actors: Jeff Bridges (actor), Greg Kuehn (composer), Robin Jones (actress), Claudia Castello (editor), Cecy Rangel (producer), Jim James (actor), Agi Orsi (producer), Mick LeGrande (editor), Lu Elrod (actress), Lu Elrod (actress), C. Scott Shuffitt (actor), Jerry Haleva (actor), Jerry Haleva (actor), Becky Jones (actress), Eddie Chung (director),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: James Evans (actor), James Evans (writer), Michael Q. Schmidt (actor), James Evans (director), Val Tasso (actor), James Evans (producer), Michael Q. Schmidt (producer), Joey Sylvester (producer), Joey Sylvester (actor), Joey Sylvester (writer), Rick Basabilvazo (composer), Christopher Lee Williams (editor), Enan J. Ring (actor), Anna Kholyavenko (editor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Short, War,Actors: Philip Hersh (actor), Emilio Roso (actor), Jeffery Alan Jones (composer), James Evans (actor), Luis Fernandez-Gil (actor), Cindy Clark (actress), Yasmine Hanani (actress), Bruce Van Patten (actor), Sujata Day (actress), Janet May (actress), Fred Dekom (actor), Janeline Hayes (actress), Shaun Kurtz (actor), Hayati Akbas (actor), Nicholas Jacobs (actor),
Plot: Poking nasty fun at the Bush Administration, action movies and itself, WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION is a heart-warming story of John Lincoln, a blaxploitation actor who finds himself out of work due to his participation in his son's grade-school anti-war protest in the winter of 2003. As his fortunes plummet and the President increases pressure to invade Iraq, Lincoln naively decides to draw on his past experience in the Special Ops Forces, and travel to Iraq to rid the world of Saddam Hussein himself - and thus avert a disastrous war. Through a series of misadventures, he manages to dispose of Saddam, but that's when things get weird. Lincoln returns to the United States and is personally invited to Camp David by President George W. Bush, himself. But during a weenie roast at a Camp David campsite, George W. reveals a terrible international secret to Lincoln, something that causes him to fight for his life!
Keywords: saddam-husseinActors: Peter Jennings (actor), Michael Keaton (actor), Peter Jason (actor), Paul Guilfoyle (actor), Saddam Hussein (actor), David Kaye (actor), Dick Cheney (actor), Brian George (actor), Castulo Guerra (actor), Kurt Fuller (actor), Clark Gregg (actor), Tom Brokaw (actor), George Bush (actor), Joshua Leonard (actor), Kevin Bacon (actor),
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Plot: When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
Keywords: 1990s, abstract-art, absurd-humor, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, alcohol, amateur, american-mythology, answering-machine, anti-war, artistActors: C. Ransom Walrod (actor), Valeria Golino (actress), Mitch Ryan (actor), Charlie Sheen (actor), Rowan Atkinson (actor), Martin Sheen (actor), Clyde Kusatsu (actor), Michael Colyar (actor), Gerald Okamura (actor), Miguel Ferrer (actor), Richard Crenna (actor), Lloyd Bridges (actor), James Lew (actor), Pat Proft (writer), Pat Proft (producer),
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