Jordan has asked the United Nations to give the green light to the resumption of direct flights between Amman and Baghdad, a top Jordanian official said Wednesday. "We have asked for the U.N.

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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq, Steve Coll, Penguin Press, 576 pages Saddam Hussein was the first person I saw die on television. It ...

“The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq,” by Steve Coll, uses details of what Saddam told CIA and FBI interrogators over cigars and the own ...

Steve Coll’s latest shows Saddam Hussein’s practical side ‘The Achilles Trap’ reexamines the relationship between Hussein and four U.S. administrations ...

But Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, managed to survive the war and regain control of most of his country. So the administration backed into a policy of sanctions and containment, which its successors ...