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...race, but it's a tense fight in which they have to rely on allies they don't know. One night last week, Russell was in an office building in downtown Tikrit, waiting for a call from a new intelligence source who said he knew where a prominent Fedayeen leader was staying for the night. Four M1 Abrams tanks, six Bradley fighting vehicles and two infantry platoons from the 4th Infantry Division stood poised to capture the man, who was believed to have been plotting for months to kill American soldiers in the area. Russell hadn't used this particular...
Just past 11 p.m., Russell's phone rang. The informant had spotted the target; the operation was a go. "I wanna get this bastard who's been attacking my men," Russell said as the convoy pulled out and headed to a flophouse in town where the Fedayeen commander was lodging. Russell's Cobra Company stormed the three-story building, netting 38 workers from out of town and their man--a provincial Fedayeen organizer nicknamed Sami "The Rock." Task Force 20, operating south of Tikrit, nabbed two more "high level" resistance leaders on the same night. Said Russell after the raid...
Iraqis who do come forward to talk to the Americans, especially in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, are risking their lives. Former regime officials thought to have pointed fingers at their old bosses are the chief targets of the insurgents' fire. Two weeks ago, members of the Fedayeen Saddam, the former regime's guerrilla corps, were seen about the town's main mosque dropping photocopies of a letter listing 21 "traitors and spies who have direct contact with the occupiers." Ten of the names on the list, a copy of which was acquired by TIME, are those of Saddam...
...offense tantamount to treason. In Tikrit, a block from the parade grounds where Saddam often celebrated his birthday, graffiti on a wall in bold Arabic strokes READ ALL THOSE WHO COOPERATE WITH THE AMERICANS WILL BE KILLED. Not far down the road, a former lieutenant in the Fedayeen who met with a TIME reporter in his one-story home reiterates that threat. "Traitors," spits the lieutenant at the mention of those helping the U.S. forces. "They are not Iraqis. They don't love their country. They deserve...
...insurgency altogether. "Everyone agrees that getting Saddam would be a major plus," says a senior U.S. intelligence official. "But you're still going to have the lower and midlevel people who, frankly, just see no other out." U.S. officials are worried that if Saddam is captured or killed, Fedayeen fighters may switch their allegiance to tribal leaders with anti-American grudges or link up with foreign militants who have crossed into Iraq to join the fray...