Saddam Hussein's Capture, Trial & Sentence - News & Analysis

Council on Foreign Relations

• Daily Analysis: Saddam Hanged for Past Crimes
  By Lionel Beehner, December 30, 2006.
  

White House

• In Focus: Renewal in Iraq
  • President's Statement on the Saddam Hussein Verdict (November 05, 2006)

CNN.com Special Reports - Saddam Hussein on Trial
Sections include: The Trial ; The Charges ; The Dictator.

• Hussein Sentenced to Death - Reaction (November 5, 2006)

Poynter Online

• Saddam Hussein Death: Resources for Journalist

Law Library of Congress

• Trial of Saddam Hussein
  "This website is intended to provide the viewer with essential information related to the relevant trials.  It will also set out a selection of reference materials that will further explain important aspects of the trials."
  

U.S. Government Responses
Coalition Provisional Authority
"Homepage of The New Iraq"

• Ambassador Bremer Announces the Capture of Saddam Hussein (December 14, 2003)
  The "We Got Him!" speech.
  

White House

• President Bush Holds Press Conference (December 15, 2003)
• Bush Addresses Nation on the Capture of Saddam Hussein (December 14, 2003)
• White House Press Secretary Briefs Reporters (December 14, 2003)

U.S. Dept. of Defense - DefenseLINK

• Terror War Continues, Rumsfeld Says, Despite Saddam's Capture (December 16, 2003)
• CENTCOM Briefing Slides on Operation Red Dawn - (dead link)

News
CNN.com Special Reports - Saddam Hussein on Trial
Sections include: The Trial ; The Charges ; The Dictator.

• Hussein Sentenced to Death - Reaction (November 5, 2006)

CNN.com Special Report - Saddam Hussein Captured
Sections include: Latest News ; The Capture ; The Dictator ; The Reaction.

BBC NEWS - Conflict with Iraq - After Saddam

• Analysis: Putting Saddam on Trial (December 15, 2003)
• Middle East - Saddam Capture Stuns Arab World (December 15, 2003)

Inside Iraq

Coalition Provisional Authority
"Homepage of The New Iraq"

• Ambassador Bremer Announces the Capture of Saddam Hussein (December 14, 2003)
  The "We Got Him!" speech.
  

White House

• Bush Addresses Nation on the Capture of Saddam Hussein (December 14, 2003)
• White House Press Secretary Briefs Reporters (December 14, 2003)

See also our US Government - Iraq Crisis Resources & Background

BBC NEWS - Conflict with Iraq - After Saddam
Sections include: Latest News ; Correspondents ; Inside Iraq ; Background ; Key Maps ; Iraq Profiles ; War Views ; Analysis ; Despatches ; Timeline ; Profiles ; Key Documents ; Regional Neighbours ; Web Links ; Quick Guides ; UK Perspective ; UK Military ; Military Fact Files ; Facts of Life.

• Analysis: Putting Saddam on Trial (December 15, 2003)
• Who's Who in Post-Saddam Iraq
  "As the US struggles to encourage the emergence of a new Iraqi leadership to take over after a period of military rule, BBC News Online looks at some of the likely key figures."
  

Brookings Institution

• Foreign Policy Studies - Iraq - (dead link)
  Sections include: Current Commentary ; Selected Readings ; Iraq Memos ; Middle East Policy ; Project on Terrorism ; Sanctions ; Internally Displaced Persons ; U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World.
  • What the Capture of Saddam Means for the Bush Administration
    NPR's Talk of the Nation, December 14, 2003
    By Ivo H. Daalder, Foreign Policy Studies
    
    
  
  
• Op-Ed
  • After Saddam: Capture Provides Psychological Lift, But Iraq's Future Uncertain
    By Michael O'Hanlon, San Diego Union-Tribune, December 21, 2003
    

National Public Radio (NPR) - Beyond the War in Iraq
Sections include: War Diaries ; Essays from the Field ; Commentaries ; Online Discussion ; Special Features ; Humanitarian Crisis ; Casualties of Conflict ; Maps and Resources.

• What the Capture of Saddam Means for the Bush Administration
  NPR's Talk of the Nation, December 14, 2003
  By Ivo H. Daalder, Foreign Policy Studies
  [From Brookings Institution]