The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Baghdad - Iraq's interim government is poised to reintroduce the death penalty and offer a limited amnesty to insurgents. The planned measures mean that former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who is facing trial in Baghdad on multiple charges, could eventually receive a death sentence. But it was unclear on Monday whether what the government referred to as a revised public law would amount to martial law. The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority that governed Iraq after Saddam's fall had suspended the death penalty. Saddam appeared in Baghdad court last Thursday and is expected to face charges of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. Athens - Six weeks before the opening of the Olympic Games in Athens, Greek military forces and law enforcement agencies carried out their final large-scale security exercise yesterday. Plans to safeguard about 100 sites over 17 days of events will cost $1.2 billion US. Baghdad - An Iraqi militant group claiming to hold a U.S. marine captive says he has not been killed, Al Jazeera reported Monday. The Arab television broadcaster said it received a statement from a group calling itself Islamic Response, saying that Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun had been moved to a safe place. The statement said that Hassoun had promised not to return to the American military. Hassoun's fate has been unclear.
