Which American news anchor contributed to CBS's "60 Minutes" and interviewed Saddam Hussein on Febryary 24, 2003?
Dan Rather
Title: Adnan Khairallah
Passage: Adnan Khairallah (Arabic: عدنان خير الله طلفاح‎ ‎ ; died 4 May 1989), was Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law (Sajida Talfah's brother and Khairallah Talfah's son) and cousin.  He held several titles and was a member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council.  He also served as the Defence Minister of Iraq from 1979 to his death, having been appointed days after Saddam Hussein succeeded to the Presidency.  He died in 1989 in a helicopter crash that was officially labeled an accident.  The circumstances surrounding his death, including his disputes with Saddam and rumors of a potential coup have led some to believe Khairallah was assassinated under orders from Saddam.
Title: Revolutionary Command Council (Iraq)
Passage: The Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council was established after the military coup in 1968, and was the ultimate decision making body in Iraq before the 2003 American-led invasion.  It exercised both executive and legislative authority in the country, with the Chairman and Vice Chairman chosen by a two-thirds majority of the council.  The Chairman was also then declared the President of Iraq and he was then allowed to select a Vice President.  After Saddam Hussein became President of Iraq in 1979 the council was led by deputy chairman Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri, deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, and Taha Yassin Ramadan, who had known Saddam since the 1960s.  The legislature was composed of the RCC, the National Assembly and a 50-member Kurdish Legislative Council which governed the country.  During his presidency, Saddam Hussein was Chairman of the RCC and President of the Republic.  Other members of the RCC included Salah Omar Al-Ali who held the position between 1968 and 1970, one of Saddam's half-brothers, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Taha Yasin Ramadan, Adnan Khairallah, Sa'adoun Shaker Mahmoud, Tariq Aziz Isa, Hasan Ali Nassar al-Namiri, Naim Hamid Haddad and Taha Mohieddin Maruf.  It was officially dissolved on 23 May 2003 by Paul Bremer per Order Number 2 of the Coalition Provisional Authority.
Title: Awad Hamed al-Bandar
Passage: Awad Hamad al-Bandar (Arabic: عواد حمد بندر السعدون‎ ‎ ; aka: Awad Hamad Bandar Alsa'doon) (2 January 1945 – 15 January 2007) was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency.  He was the head of the Revolutionary Court which issued death sentences against 143 Dujail residents, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on the president on 8 July 1982 (a year before the U.S. assumed diplomatic ties with Hussein to help thwart their common enemy: Iran).  After the US invasion, he was formally handed over to the interim Iraqi Government in 2004.  On 31 July 2005, at the Al-Dujail trial, the Iraqi Special Tribunal tried al-Bandar for crimes against humanity for issuing the death sentences where he pleaded not guilty.  On 5 November 2006, al-Bandar was sentenced to death by hanging along with co-defendants Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, who was beheaded as a result of the hanging.  His body was buried next to Saddam Hussein in Al-Awja.
Title: Dan Rather
Passage: Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the "CBS Evening News."  He was most recently managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine "Dan Rather Reports" on the cable channel AXS TV.  Rather was anchor of the "CBS Evening News" for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005.  He also contributed to CBS's "60 Minutes".  Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving President George W. Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard and subsequently left "CBS Evening News" in 2005, and he left the network entirely after 44 years in 2006.
Title: 2003 State of the Union Address
Passage: The 2003 State of the Union Address was a speech delivered by U.S. President George W. Bush, the 43rd United States President, on Tuesday, January 28, 2003.  It outlined justifications for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.  It began his discussion of the "war on terror" by asserting, as he had before September 11, 2001, that "the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons."  Of such regimes, that of Saddam Hussein was the worst, and "a brutal dictator, with a history of reckless aggression, with ties to terrorism, with great potential wealth, will not be permitted to dominate a vital region and threaten the United States."  In this context, Bush also said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa," a line which became a source of contention in the later Plame affair.  The domestic brutality of Hussein and the benefits of liberty and freedom for the Iraqi people were briefly noted near the end of the speech.  He began with, "In all these days of promise and days of reckoning, we can be confident.  In a whirlwind of change and hope and peril, our faith is sure, our resolve is firm, and our union is strong."
Title: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations
Passage: Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations were made by the U.S. government officials who claimed that a highly secretive relationship existed between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and the radical Islamist militant organization Al-Qaeda from 1992 to 2003, specifically through a series of meetings reportedly involving the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS).  In the lead up to the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush alleged that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and militant group al-Qaeda might conspire to launch terrorist attacks on the United States, basing the administration's rationale for war, in part, on this allegation .  The consensus of intelligence experts has been that these contacts never led to an operational relationship, and that consensus is backed up by reports from the independent 9/11 Commission and by declassified Defense Department reports as well as by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, whose 2006 report of Phase II of its investigation into prewar intelligence reports concluded that there was no evidence of ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.  Critics of the Bush Administration have said Bush was intentionally building a case for war with Iraq without regard to factual evidence.  On April 29, 2007, former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet said on "60 Minutes", "We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al-Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America, period."
Title: Khalil al-Duleimi
Passage: Khalil al-Duleimi is an attorney best known for representing Saddam Hussein at his trial.  He was one of 22 lawyers representing Hussein at his trial, and the only one based in Iraq.  When Saddam's legal team learned that Saddam was to be interrogated, they requested the presence of a lawyer.  Al-Duleimi represented Saddam, and told the head of the legal team, Jordan-based lawyer Ziad al-Khasawneh, that Saddam had answered the tribunal with "confidence and serenity".  Al-Duleimi has spent significant time in hiding since his meeting with Saddam, as he received numerous death threats, including a message to his home warning that suicide cells had been formed specifically to kill him as an example to all other attorneys who had volunteered for Saddam's defense team.  In May 2005, upon release of photos showing Saddam sleeping and washing his trousers, by an anonymous US Army officer, al-Duleimi made comments critical of the United States Army, but did not comment on a possible lawsuit proposed by al-Khasawneh.
Title: Men and the City
Passage: Men and the City (Arabic: رجال ومدينة‎ ‎ ) is a 320-page novel by former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein which was published in 2002.  The work was largely autobiographical in nature and describes how Saddam Hussein's grandfather fought the Turks during the Ottoman Empire.  It also focuses on the rise of the Ba'ath Party and several of Saddam's relatives including his uncle.  It was the third work which Saddam published.  The hero of the novel is a character named Saleh but it is widely assumed that the novel is a thinly veiled autobiography of Saddam himself.
Title: Saddam Hussein Nagar, Sri Lanka
Passage: Saddam Hussein Town (Tamil: சதாம் உசேன் நகர் ) is the name of a village exclusively inhabited by local Muslims in the Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka.  It is named after Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, who donated all the funds required to build the village and its central Mosque.  Saddam Hussein first became involved in the village after floods hit the area in 1978 and local authorities approached the Iraqi embassy for help.  The former president was said to have readily obliged and sponsored construction of the entire village with some 100 houses, including a school and a mosque.
Title: February 2003 Saddam Hussein interview
Passage: The Saddam interview refers to a famous television interview that occurred between President of Iraq Saddam Hussein and American news anchor Dan Rather on February 24, 2003, very shortly before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.  The interview was aired both in the United States and on all three Iraqi television networks.  British politician Tony Benn had also interviewed Hussein earlier that month.
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