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...Kurdish resistance leader gave Makiya the notebook, part of the documentary proof of the genocidal campaign that eliminated between 50,000 and 180,000 Kurdish men, women, and children. During the campaign, carefully planned in advance by Saddam??s regime, innocent civilians were herded together, executed, and dumped in mass graves...
Makiya, in his visit to northern Iraq, devoted himself to collecting documentation of the genocide, an effort that culminated in his work on an award-winning 1992 documentary, “Saddam??s Killing Fields...
Afterwards, he obtained scanned copies of 3.2 million pages of official documents seized from Saddam??s regime, and spent the next decade combing through them. The Iraq Research and Documentation Project was painstaking scholarly work, carried out in hopes of finding more proof of Saddam??s crimes, Makiya said. He estimated that 90 percent of the documents were irrelevant, but he kept working through the pages for the few that mattered...
...Bush administration geared up for war in 2002, Makiya, who had written a best-selling book on Saddam??s regime, “Republic of Fear,” was drawn into the public debate. He became a passionate supporter of the humanitarian justification for war and was consulted by Vice President Dick Cheney in 2002 and, later, President Bush himself. But Makiya rejected the idea that his opinions had any impact on America’s march to war. He called his meeting with Bush “nothing but a public relations exercise...
...Driving 15 hours in SUVs from Kuwait to Baghdad, the convoy entered the city with no clear destination. They drove around, looking for a building suitable for their headquarters. The convoy eventually picked the Republican Palace—formerly Saddam??s primary seat of power—and took over the facility. Senor says the first days in the palace were challenging...