London, Apr 5 : It might sound a bit eccentric, but Iraq is offering Saddam Hussein's palatial boudoir to newlyweds to make their first night extra special.

The ex-dictator's bedroom is on offer for 150-pound a night. At the moment Hussein's presidential palace, which includes Roman columns, chandeliers and gargantuan bathrooms, is undergoing renovation in the town of Hillah, some 60 miles south of Baghdad.

"We hope that many people will visit," The Times quoted a tourism official, as saying.

London, Nov 3: Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s palatial 270-foot yacht “Ocean Breeze” has been put on sale. Fastened at the southern French resort of Nice, the yacht is expected to fetch around 20 million pounds.

A senior Iraqi government official Ali al-Dabbagh said that the government hopes for a sale within the next few weeks.

Built in 1981, the Ocean Breeze is said to be modest in size compared with other “megayachts”.

London, Nov 1 : The body of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was stabbed six times after he was executed, according to the head guard at his tomb north of Baghdad, who was one of the people that helped bury the corpse.

The head of Saddam’s tribe categorically denies the claim. The Iraqi Government similarly denies any mutilation took place after the dictator was hanged on December 
30, 2006, for crimes against humanity, The Times reported.

Washington, Aug. 7 : The Government of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is said to have passed on intelligence to Washington that suggested that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, but this information was conveniently buried by the White House, a new book claims.

Ron Suskind claims in his book -- In The Way of the World, that Blair sent Michael Shipster, a top British spy to the Middle East in 2003 — three months before the invasion — to dig up enough intelligence to avoid a war.

Nicosia, Apr 30: Iraqi National Museum has recovered 701-looted artefacts l

Melbourne, Mar.