Lawmakers Urge Holiday for Hussein
From Times Wire Reports
Iraq’s parliament recommended that April 28, President Saddam Hussein’s birthday, be made an annual national holiday, the Iraqi News Agency INA said.
According to INA, lawmakers made the recommendation to show “appreciation of the president’s role in leading the Iraqi people in the most difficult time that is confronting aggressors and their [conspiratorial] plots against Iraq and its people.”
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