Word: baath
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When the troops arrive there, the two-story green-and-lime building housing the Baath Party seems deserted. Then a sniper across the road starts firing on the convoy and is answered. The battalion pours through the streets, grabbing two teens who tell the troops that 250 to 450 armed Baathists have headed east, the last of them having left as the Marines arrived. The teams collect names of party officials and details on their vehicles and weapons. The biggest find: a book listing the names of all local Baath officials...
...halt the attacks; while some civilians made it to safety, others were forced back into the city. In Basra and in al Zubayr to the south, British troops staged surgical raids to arrest and kill Iraqi paramilitary commanders and called in air strikes to destroy buildings where Baath Party leaders were meeting. A British army official says the operations "were specifically designed to show locals that Saddam's men are no longer in charge." But British forces hesitated to make a move into the city for fear of putting civilians at greater risk...
Special Republican Guard 15,000-25,000 Largely recruited from Saddam's al-Bu Nasir tribe and other loyal groups, SRG troops are scattered throughout Baghdad and well-trained in urban combat. Its units protect Saddam and top Baath Party officials...
...acute. Lives have been overturned. Lack of water and electricity add new miseries to an already arduous existence. The U.S. would like to think that its presence as "liberators" will give them hope for better life here. For now, however, the power vacuum created by the elimination of the Baath party makes the effort futile - and it may even threaten the long-term chances of pulling this village from poverty...
...black shawl with six little ones in tow sheepishly approached a small American outpost. She held out a ration form. It was her day to come to pick up rice and flour to feed her family. Controlling the distribution of food staples had been one of the ways the Baath Party had kept the population in check. With the party gone, she didn't know where to turn...