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These are not the people that Saddam Hussein counts on. He has drawn around himself a tight circle of supporters, loyal members of his al-Tikriti clan, whose interlocking relationships ensure his control of the security services, the military and the Baath party. The army is run by a cousin who launched poison-gas attacks against the Kurds in 1988 and destroyed Shi'ite holy sites in the south after the war. Internal security is entrusted to two half- brothers, and Saddam's younger son, Qusai, 26, was recently put in charge of the 10,000-man presidential guard. Another...
Government officials refused to allow Stone to photograph some of the war's wreckage, including Baath Party headquarters, which he describes as "just a shell of a building." Nor was he permitted to take pictures of police and army posts or even cemeteries. What Stone's lens did capture was human suffering, evident in scenes of malnourished children. But he also encountered remarkable resilience in the civilians he met. Many Iraqis have nothing but polluted water to drink, and while most foods and staples are plentiful, they * are being sold at exorbitant prices...
...Iraq's Baath Party attempted to pacify rebellious Kurds with an offer of autonomy, but the agreement broke down...
...March 23, Professor Roy Mottahedeh, no raving radical, wrote that democracy "seems nearer realization than ever because a genuine alliance between the Shiites and Kurds (and 15 other groups) that has been forming for a year or so has begun to find sympathy among alienated elements in the ruling Baath party...
...power," says a U.S. analyst. "The Baathists have destroyed them all." . Bush's advisers fear that if some loose combination of rebels won, they would not be able to exercise effective control over the institutions dominated by Saddam's fellow Sunni Muslims -- the army, the security police and the Baath party -- that have kept Iraq together. The country could well splinter into rival fragments that might be gobbled up by neighboring Iran, Syria and Turkey, leading to instability throughout the Middle East. Or the rebels might provoke other multi-ethnic states to splinter. The Kurds, for example, have said they...