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Saddam Hussein

News Reports

Rasool booked for threatening to kill PM Modi and Yogi Adityanath if Congress comes to power, had earlier hailed attack on Israel by Saddam...

OpIndia Staff - 5 March, 2024

A police official informed, "Rasool, who made a selfie video on his mobile phone, abused Prime Minister Modi and UP CM Yogi Adityanath with unintelligible words."

News Reports

Did you know: The Congress party and an ex-foreign minister were involved in the Iraqi oil scam, even when not in power

Pallav - 12 April, 2022

The Volcker Committee report cited Kunwar Natwar Singh, former External Affairs Minister, and the Congress Party as "non-contractual beneficiaries" of Iraqi oil sales under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme scam in 2001.

Political History of India

Amidst the Afghanistan crisis, read how India presided over the world’s largest citizen evacuation operation during Iraq-Kuwait war in 1990

Jinit Jain - 16 August, 2021

India's unprecedented evacuation of over 1,70,000 stranded citizens from Kuwait was depicted in the Bollywood movie Airlift.

OpIndia Explains

Did you know Indira Gandhi was ‘admired’ by Saddam Hussein and she had visited Libya to meet Muammar Gaddafi

OpIndia Staff - 17 March, 2021

Rahul Gandhi had recently made a reference to tinpot dictators Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi to allege that even they won elections

Media

When Bengaluru paid the price for the hanging of Saddam Hussein

Abhishek Banerjee - 13 August, 2020

In 2007, a group of people turned out on the streets to protest the hanging of Saddam Hussein. The rally was led by prominent Congress leader and former Cabinet Minister C K Jaffar Sharief.