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Colonel Ali Jaffar Hussan al-Duri, a Republican Guard armored-corps commander who fought in the Iran-Iraq war and in both Gulf Wars, remembers the time when Iraq's Chemical Corps was fear inspiring. "We were much better at it than the Iranians," he says, who are thought to have suffered as many as 80,000 casualties in chemical attacks. But after Gulf War I, Saddam's son-in-law Hussein Kamal, who headed the MIC, took the most talented Chemical Corps officers with him, according to Hussan. After that, he claims, the unit became a joke. "It should...
...production levels and meanwhile siphoning money from projects. "He would tell the President he had invented a new missile for Stealth bombers but hadn't. So Saddam would say, 'Make 20 missiles.' He would make one and put the rest in his pocket," says the captain. Colonel Hussan al-Duri, who spent several years in the 1990s as an air-defense inspector, saw similar cons. "Some projects were just stealing money," he says. A scientist or officer would say he needed $10 million to build a special weapon. "They would produce great reports, but there was never anything behind them...
...century Palazzo della Ragione while helicopters whirred overhead and sharpshooters kept a vigil from nearby rooftops. Inside, seven of the 16 Red Brigades terrorists accused of kidnaping U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier awaited the first day of their trial in two adjoining steel cages. In one were the duri (hard-liners), who have stubbornly maintained their silence during interrogation. In the other, for their own protection as much as anything else, were the pentiti (repentant ones), whose surprising willingness to betray their comrades has given Italian authorities reason to believe that they may be close to unraveling the once...
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...courses were originally to have been given by Dr. Duri of the Higher Teacher's College, Baghdad. Professor Hitti was one of ten distinguished professors mentioned by Time magazine who retired last June. He created the department of Islamic Studies at Princeton University, and is the author of numerous books, among them "A History of the Arabs," which has passed through many editions, "A History of Syria and Lebanon," and "The Arabs...