In the meantime a picture is starting to emerge of life in the Hussein era.

In Iraq, many people have aggressively tried to find records of the Hussein era.

A 50-foot-high, honeycomb-shaped tower is home to thousands of bats cultivated during the Hussein era to control mosquitoes.

It was the final moment of waiting for a nation that had been anticipating the end of the Hussein era with grief and disbelief for many days.

Latif's militia wore Iraqi military uniforms from the Hussein era.

Iraqis on the governing council and businessmen say some of the subcontracting companies are owned by men who profited during the Hussein era.

The continuing guerrilla war, coupled with leftover tensions from the Hussein era, have starkly polarized the country's ethnic and religious factions, and their political leaders.

And, thanks to an American military shield, it got a 12-year head start on the post-Saddam Hussein era.

While working for Uvda, he was sent to Iraq in 2003 to create a documentary on the post-Saddam Hussein era.

But it's far better than the administration's consideration of an American military occupation-type government for Iraq in the post-Saddam Hussein era.