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...this looks like Las Vegas." TYRONE FRANKLIN, Marine captain, on Saddam Hussein's abandoned 1,000-acre compound in Tikrit, which includes monuments, artificial lakes and palaces...
...Uday have long circulated. As president of the country's Olympic committee and its soccer body, Uday reportedly ordered the torture of athletes, especially members of the national soccer team who performed below his expectations. Last weekend TIME found tangible evidence of that torture. In the administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad, hidden in a pile of leaves, was that must-have of every medieval dungeon, an iron maiden. The sarcophagus-shaped device, with spikes to pierce any unfortunate placed inside, was clearly worn from use. It lay on its side within view of Uday's first...
Fear, when set loose, can turn to fury; by nightfall there was no counting how many pictures and statues and paintings of Saddam had been stabbed and stomped and torched. In fact, that was how the 3/4 Battalion of the 7th Marines began their day: at the abandoned military compound where they had spent the night, a few took a sledgehammer to a mural of Saddam. "I hit him once for each Marine that died and once for each of my family members back home," said Lance Corporal Garfield Shealy. "He's the reason why I'm not with them...
...form a knot of bile as you scamper after a bus that left 10 seconds too soon. It chokes you as your boss--say, an editor at the magazine you've slaved at for years--cuts your perfect movie review in half, adds lame jokes...and then, to compound the injury, sends you out to get her coffee, at that same rotten deli...
...this looks like Las Vegas." TYRONE FRANKLIN, Marine captain, on Saddam Hussein's abandoned 1,000-acre compound in Tikrit, which includes monuments, artificial lakes and palaces...