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Iraq: Saddam Hussein
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Britain invades Iraq to restore pro-British government. Rashid ‘Ali requests, and obtains, German support and other Axis support, but it is ineffective; Ali escaped to Tehran (29 May), then Germany (Nov 41) & Saudi Arabia (May 1945). Husseini likewise escaped to Germany. Click for details of Mufti, British Intervention and the Farhud
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There have been many large-scale waves of emigration from Iraq, beginning early in the regime of Saddam Hussein and continuing through to 2007. The UN High Commission for Refugees has estimated that nearly two million Iraqis have fled the country in recent years, mostly to Jordan and Syria.[24] Although some expatriates returned to Iraq after the 2003 invasion, the flow had virtually stopped by 2006.[25]
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| Saddam Hussein went to trial on Wednesday declaring he was still the president of Iraq. A decade-old series of odes to Hussein's dictatorial days show the tyrant was always out of touch with reality.
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This section looks back at events and interests that shaped the modern history of Iraq. From UK-French oil quarrels at the Versailles Conference (1919) through US firms selling biological and chemical items to Saddam (late 1980s) -- this section provides an essential background to the current conflict.
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