Dominic Cooper, who plays both Uday Hussein and his unfortunate double, Latif Yahia, in Lee Tamahori's straight-from-history fiction, says The Devil's Double is really just a gangster movie... more
Military intelligence chiefs were ordered to "make a case for war" on Saddam Hussein in a dossier about Iraq's weapons, according to documents released today... more
Defector who helped to convince the White House that Saddam Hussein possessed biological weapons has admitted he 'fabricated' information, it was claimed... more
Former deputy prime minister of Iraq, Tariq Aziz, compares Saddam Hussein to Winston Churchill and says his country was better off under the late dictator... more
From sheep-tail kebabs in Fallujah to engine-oil crisps in Baghdad, Wendell Steavenson has eaten her way round the world's trouble spots and survived... more
Intelligence experts explicitly warned Tony Blair's aides that Britain was not in "imminent danger of attack" from Saddam Hussein, a confidential memo reveals... more
Every now and again a play comes out of nowhere and hijacks the public imagination. Nick Curtis talks to Hassan Abdulrazzak whose debut work Baghdad Wedding is such a play.... more
In its three strands, Iraq in Fragments shows a country in terminal decline, says Derek Malcolm. So how exactly will 20,000 extra US troops help?... more
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