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Analysis: War just despite arms mess

British diplomat trades UN role for Iraq posting

An Iraqi colonel has revealed how he passed top secret information to British intelligence warning that Saddam Hussain had deployed WMDs that could be used against coalition troops in less than 45 minutes.

A "talkative and co-operative" Saddam Hussain languishes in American custody, his 35-year reign of terror over Iraq brought to a dramatic end.

Saddam Hussain's security chiefs placed members of Tariq Aziz's family under arrest shortly before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom to make sure that the former Iraqi deputy prime minister did not defect to the West, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

It's what the intelligence experts call "the Elvis factor". More than two months after President George W. Bush declared that the war to liberate Iraq was over, the issue of whether Saddam Hussain is dead or alive is severely undermining coalition attempts to construct a democratic, free-enterprise Arab state from the ruins of the Baathist dictatorship.

Saboteurs blow up rail tracks

London Running Saudi Arabia's intelligence service is not a job for the faint-he-arted. During the 24 years that Prince Turki Al Faisal ran the organisation he had dealings with the world's two most notorious outlaws, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussain.

Officials at the United Nations compound in Baghdad could not have made themselves any clearer.

Baath Party activists loyal to the deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussain have launched a series of attacks against the offices of politicians involved in setting up an interim national government in Baghdad.

British officers have uncovered an attempt by Saddam Hussain to build a missile capable of hitting targets throughout the Middle East, including Israel.

Saddam's secret hideaway