Category Archives: Tyranny watch

Good riddance

Saddam Hussein has been hung.
“The butcher of Baghdad is dead. Saddam Hussein, the tyrant who ruled Iraq like a Mafia don, slaughtered his fellow citizens and led his country into two disastrous wars with the United States, was hanged near dawn in Iraq for the 1982 massacre of 148 Shiite civilians.”

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Guilty!

Saddam Hussein Sentenced To Death by Hanging
Now, we’ll see if it actually ever happens…

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So North Korea is Testing Nukes

I think most of us assumed they had them - now they’ve proved it. One good thing - sounds like China is NOT happy with them. (Neither is anyone else - except, probably, Iran.)
Instapundit has some good links.
Wizbang is following a rumor that they may be about to do a second test.
My biggest worry [...]

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I don’t believe this.

Ahmadinejad has a blog? (It’s using the Iranian .ir - so I think it’s legit.) It even provides an English translation. (Hat tip to LGF commenter Sleipnir, who got it from Allahpundit at Hot Air.) No. I am not putting this one on my blogroll. But I’m fascinated.

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More like this

BlogSafer: How to Blog in a Repressive Country
Spirit of America has launched the BlogSafer wiki. BlogSafer contains a series of guides on how to blog under difficult conditions in countries that discourage free speech.
The guides are a synthesis of all currently available information on the subject of anonymization. They have been edited [...]

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We miss you too.

In the Land of the Brother Leader
Michael Totten tours Libya.
When you visit another country, it’s hard to get a feel for what it’s actually like until you leave your hotel room, go for a walk, take a look around, and hang out while soaking it in. Not so in Libya. All you have to [...]

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