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...Muntaha is, after all, a creature of Saddam's Iraq. "The president has looked after me," she says. A member of the ruling Ba'ath Party since she was 12, she was married just three months when her fighter-pilot husband was killed in 1981, an early victim of the Iraq-Iran war. Ever since, she's been wedded to the state, drawing her husband's pension, teaching 'home science' at a government-run high school for girls, and volunteering at the General Federation of Iraqi Women. Her daughter Sabreen, 21, studies journalism at Baghdad University, and Muntaha hopes...
...strike anywhere. A month ago they assassinated a senior party and military official in the midst of negotiations with extremist elements. The Kurdish fighters along this frontline are anxiously awaiting the arrival on the battlefield of U.S. bombers and ground troops - to dispatch not only Saddam and Ba'ath Party, but also Ansar and its al-Qaeda backers...
Another day, another parade. With war approaching, the Iraqi government and Saddam Hussein?s Ba?ath Party are staging massive demonstrations of public confidence and preparedness around the country. And to make sure the world (read: Washington) gets the message, the authorities are dropping their usual restrictions and allowing foreign journalists to take a peek...
...Nothing special, nothing at all," says Aliah Gazal Dawood, 39, a housewife and Ba?ath Party activist, armed with fistfuls of candy that she will throw (in lieu of flowers) at the marchers. Is this collective modesty, or was something lost in the translation...
...regular Army - march by to the energetic prompting of a 12-piece brass band. Making the greatest early impression: a cohort of masked women in black, armed with AK-47s. Not far behind, but at the opposite end of the impressiveness scale, are a rabble of local Ba?ath workers, many of them sporting pot bellies and making little effort to stay in step. On the public address system, a man with a deep voice exhorts the soldiers of God to show the world that they are more than a match for the dastardly Americans. Wearing their sternest expressions...