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...Saddam, but that strategy does not resolve the deep moral questions of ordering someone's death. It is often argued that an assassination of Adolf Hitler before World War II might have saved tens of millions of lives. If killing Hitler would have been morally justified, how about Idi Amin Dada, under whose regime 300,000 Ugandans died? Or Syrian President Hafez Assad, who has given protection to the Palestinian group considered responsible for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland? What level of evil deeds or threat to world peace justifies as asassination...
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...world's most dangerous man" (1971-79), Amin fled with his wives, children and entourage to Saudi Arabia. Tried returning to Uganda through Zaire last year and was kicked out. The Saudis allowed him back but restricted his access to phone lines...
...memories of war are haunted most by the images of children fighting. Impassive Khmer Rouge kids, taught to massacre civilians, even their parents. Idi Amin's army of thugs, murderous preteens in wraparound sunglasses. Iranian ten-year-olds sent unarmed into battle as human minesweepers, with pictures of Khomeini pinned to their shirts. Now Mozambique is at the vanguard of the unconscionable. The Renamo rebels fighting the Chissano regime have become infamous for their instrumentalizados, children kidnaped by Renamo troops and not just trained to fight but also forced to slaughter and maim civilians...
...Hajj Amin, the Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the early Palestinian national movement, received an affirmative reply to his request from Hitler for future support in solving the Jewish question "in Palestine and other Arab countries [sic]...in the same way as the Jewish question in the Axis lands is being solved...