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** Saddam Hussein releases the Western hostages.
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** and Saddam
** U. S. forces seize control of Saddam International Airport, changing the airport's name to Baghdad International Airport.
** Iraqi Special Republican Guard, a military force formed from the Iraqi Republican Guard and charged with Saddam Hussein's protection
** Saddam Hussein's government systematically extorted billions of dollars in illegal payments from companies doing business with Iraq.
** Trials of Saddam Hussein: Three gunmen assassinate Adel al-Zubeidi, the defense lawyer for Taha Yassin Ramadan, a former Iraqi Vice President under Saddam Hussein.
** The former Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, has claimed in The Observer newspaper, that human rights abuses by members of the Government of Iraq are as bad now as they were in the time of Saddam Hussein.
** The tribunal trying Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants adjourned for a second time after hearing posthumous evidence.
** Deposed Iraq president Saddam Hussein has refused to attend his trial for crimes against humanity, throwing the sometimes chaotic Iraqi proceedings into further confusion.
** On NBC's " Meet the Press ," Vice President Richard Cheney cited the New York Times article, and accused Saddam of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past fourteen months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms.
** On CBS, President Bush said U. N. weapons inspectors, before they were denied access to Iraq in 1998, concluded that Saddam was " six months away from developing a weapon.
** and Hussein
** French journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi have been freed after five months of captivity in Iraq.
** insurgents in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad kill three, including the Kurdish Member of Parliament, Faris Hussein.
** Osman Hussein, found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of conspiracy to murder and sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in prison.
** and releases
** A fire at the Windscale power station in the UK releases radioactive material into the surrounding environment, including Iodine-131.
** The Hoover Institution releases an optimistic report that global warming will probably reduce mortality in the United States and provide Americans with valuable benefits.
** Walt Disney releases his 18th feature-length animated motion picture The Sword in the Stone, about the boyhood of King Arthur.
** Israel releases 51 Arab prisoners and the bodies of 9 guerillas, raising hopes that the last Western hostages in Lebanon will soon be released.
** Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited, featuring the song " Like a Rolling Stone ".
** An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States ' largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to " maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth.
** A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
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