“It exterminates thousands and forces them not to eat or drink, and they will have to evacuate their homes without taking anything with them, until we can finally purge them.”
Saddam Hussein, recorded on a tape played on Monday in Baghdad at the trial of his cousin, “Chemical Ali” Hassan al-Majeed, who is accused of plotting the 1988 chemical attacks on Iraqi Kurds (Reuters, 8 January)
“Plutoed’ has been chosen as 2006 word of the year.”
The American Dialect Society on 5 January, after Pluto last year lost its status as a planet. “Plutoed” means to demote or devalue…
