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Being openly fatalistic is rare in a country where questioning Saddam's invincibility can be injurious to your health. Ask a Baghdadi about the prospects of war, and you will almost always get the official line: Iraq's mighty military, led by its beloved President, will vanquish the foolish Americans, God willing. But in the Iraqi stereotype, southerners always tell it like...
...Reported by George Baghdadi/ Damascus; Massimo Calabresi and Elaine Shannon/Washington; and Matt Rees/Jerusalem
...week's end, with this question unanswered, the celebrating went on in the palace courtyard, where crowds gathered and milled. Suddenly someone spotted Tayeb Baghdadi, Caliph (deputy) to the Pasha of Fez, who had come to Rabat to make amends to the Sultan for having supported his banishment. The mob closed in, kicked and beat him, ripped off his white silken robes. "The Sultan may forget, but we will not forgive you!" cried one. The Caliph fought for his life, but a rock on the head finished...