Word: saddamism
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...President George W. Bush announces that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended"; soon after, General Tommy Franks moves his headquarters from Qatar to Tampa, Fla. may Saddam meets secretly in a car in Baghdad with four advisers, including a representative of Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri (Saddam's former No. 2) and Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmed of the top-secret Military Bureau. Saddam tells them to start "rebuilding your networks" and later sends instructions on how to conduct a guerrilla...
...Attacks on Iraqi police stations kill 34 people, after Saddam calls on insurgents to focus on Iraqi security and police forces rather than coalition troops. Former members of his Baathist Party help facilitate passage of suicide bombers, in the first evidence of collaboration between former regime elements and al-Qaeda's Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. November...
...Saddam is captured near Tikrit, along with a briefcase full of documents...
Five men met in an automobile in a Baghdad park a few weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime in April 2003, according to U.S. intelligence sources. One of the five was Saddam. The other four were among his closest advisers. The agenda: how to fight back against the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq. A representative of Saddam's former No. 2, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, was there. But the most intriguing man in the car may have been a retired general named Muhammad Yunis al-Ahmed, who had been a senior member of the Military Bureau...
...intelligence. It represents a rare moment of clarity in the dust storm of violence that swirls through central Iraq. The insurgency has grown well beyond its initial Baathist core to include religious extremist and Iraqi nationalist organizations, and plain old civilians who are angry at the American occupation. But Saddam's message of "rebuilding your networks" remains the central organizing principle...