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Jasim is a killer. In the past six months he claims to have helped assassinate 10 former members of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime, most of them officials in the disbanded mukhabarat, Iraq's ruthless intelligence service. A construction worker who declines to give his full name for fear of retribution, Jasim, 31, has scores to settle. In 1999, after he participated in the murder of three Baathist officials, the mukhabarat threw him into prison, where he says he was whipped and beaten and tortured with electric shocks to his penis. Released in a general amnesty Saddam granted just before...
...Saddam's Fedayeen. But their bodies were not found on the battlefield or in the local hospital, while locals insist that only civilian bystanders were killed. Still, by the accounts of both locals and American troops, the fighting was fierce and protracted. The idea of forces loyal to Saddam Hussein still running around in uniform seven months after U.S. forces took control of Iraq - and capable, according to the account of the U.S. commander on the ground, of sustaining 54 casualties and then retreating in a sufficiently organized manner that allowed for the evacuation of all of the dead fighters...
...Iraqis, Bush's message was equally clear: join Washington's program, or risk being cut out of the process altogether. "You have the opportunity to seize the moment and rebuild your great country based on dignity and freedom," Bush said. "The regime of Saddam Hussein has gone forever." Hammering home what has become his mantra in recent weeks, he said: "We will stay until the job is done...
...while back, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dubbed the insurgents who are making life so difficult for coalition forces, Iraqi authorities and anyone caught in the cross fire "dead-enders," losers from Saddam Hussein's regime with nothing left to do but go down fighting. U.S. military officials said the enemy fighters lacked organization and coordination. No one would say any of this now. American officials acknowledge that the insurgents are a potent and increasingly structured force. A former Saddam aide who is close to insurgents in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, agrees. What were once dispersed cells are now meeting...
President Bush has said, "We'll stay until the job is done." What specifically constitutes the job being done? Can you hand over authority to a sovereign government, for example, without finding Saddam Hussein or the weapons of mass destruction...