* Mwakikagile, Godfrey Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era, Third Edition, Pretoria, South Africa, 2006, on Angola in Chapter 11, " American Involvement in Angola and Southern Africa: Nyerere's Response ", pp. 324 – 346, ISBN 978-0-9802534-1-2.

The debate continues unabated – e. g. S. Georg 2004, A. Vovin 2005, S. Georg 2005 ( anti-Altaic ); S. Starostin 2005, V. Blažek 2006, M. Robbeets 2007, A. Dybo and G. Starostin 2008 ( pro-Altaic ).

* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )

* 1930 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician ( d. 2006 )

* 1945 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization ( d. 2006 )

* 1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1923 – Al Lewis, American actor ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Comair Flight 5191 crashes on takeoff from Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky bound for Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1913 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, Russian-German wife of Claus von Stauffenberg ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Darry Cowl, French actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1922 – Freddie Laker, English businessman, founded Laker Airways ( d. 2006 )

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom.

* 1971 – James Kim, American journalist and technology expert ( d. 2006 )

* 1986 – Rafaela Zanella, Brazilian model, Miss Brasil 2006

Telephones – main lines in use: 37, 500 ( 2006 )

Telephones – mobile cellular: 110, 200 ( 2006 ) ( APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel )

* 1918 – Noor Hassanali, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago ( d. 2006 )

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka ( Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2006 ), pp. 243 – 261

The wicketkeeper-batsman position was held by Ian Healy for most of the 1990s and by Adam Gilchrist from 2001 to 2006 – 07.

With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 – 07 series with a convincing 5 – 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

* 1922 – Gábor Agárdy, Hungarian actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1932 – Lamar Hunt, American sports executive ( d. 2006 )

* 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi Dictator, ( executed for war crimes ) ( b. 1937 )

During the regime of Saddam Hussein, the leader of the Ba ' ath Party had strong relations with Bachir, and Amine Gemayel ; relations grew even stronger when Iraqi officials verbally lashed out against Israel's actions in the 2006 War.

Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ( Arabic: ; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006 ) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.

On 5 November 2006, Saddam was convicted of charges related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi ' ites and was sentenced to death by hanging.

On 5 November 2006, Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death by hanging.

On 30 December 2006, Saddam was hanged.

Saddam was hanged on the first day of Eid ul-Adha, 30 December 2006, despite his wish to be shot ( which he felt would be more dignified ).

Saddam was buried at his birthplace of Al-Awja in Tikrit, Iraq, 3 km ( 2 mi ) from his sons Uday and Qusay Hussein, on 31 December 2006.

* Saddam Hussein: 1937 – 2006 — slideshow by The First Post

( New York Times: Dash to Baghdad Left Top US Generals Divided 13 March 2006 ) More generally, they argue Franks ' command was somewhat understandably focused on the immediate task in front of it – defeating Saddam Hussein and taking Baghdad – and few were willing to divert resources away from that effort and toward the long-term post-war needs.

* April 28 – Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq ( d. 2006 )

On August 21, 2006, the trial of Saddam Hussein and six codefendants, including Hassan al-Majid (" Chemical Ali "), opened on charges of genocide against the Kurds.

Bush launched attacks on Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan to distract the population from his domestic political problems and claims that despite victorious claims after the first Gulf War that Saddam Hussein had been " defanged ," he was again the target of Western attacks until his execution in 2006.

On July 2, 2006, Iraq national security advisor Muwaffaq al-Rubaie announced that Sajida and her daughter Raghad Saddam Hussein are placed 16th and 17th on the Iraqi government's most wanted list for financing Sunni Muslim insurgents under Saddam's reign.

On 18 December 2006, Saddam Hussein told the court:

* Ace ♠: Saddam Hussein, president (# 1 on most-wanted list ) ( Executed 2006 ).

This led Tatchell to write in 2006 that " Under Saddam Hussein discreet homosexuality was usually tolerated.

On December 14, 2006, Time published an article about MEK and reported: " By the mid-1980s, the group ( MEK ) had cozied up to Saddam Hussein, who provided them with funds and a compound, Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad.

In the first half of 2006, Beazley focussed much of the Labor Party's parliamentary inquiry into the Australian Wheat Board ( AWB ) scandal, which allegedly involved bribes and kickbacks with the then Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, that universally breached UN sanctions, to which Australia was a signatory.

From Vanuabalavu, he remained outspoken in condemning the military takeover, comparing the new regime to those of Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler, and Idi Amin, in an interview quoted in the Fiji Times and Fiji Village on 13 and 14 December 2006.

* Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ( 1937 – 2006 ), President of Iraq

Saddam Hussein was buried in this village before dawn on December 31, 2006, less than 24 hours after his execution took place for his major responsibility in crimes against humanity in Iraq.

Isaacs played Major Briggs, an American military officer, opposite Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear, in Paul Greengrass's thriller Green Zone ( 2010 ), a fictionalised drama set in Iraq after the defeat of Saddam Hussein based on the book Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone ( 2006 ), by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, for which production began in Morocco, in January 2008.

It was reported that the check was hand-delivered to Mr. Strong by a South Korean businessman, Tongsun Park, who in 2006 was convicted in New York federal court of conspiring to bribe U. N. officials to rig Oil-for-Food in favor of Saddam Hussein.