Word: saddamism
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...Pakistan's army was surprised, so too were the country's American allies. Under pressure to score a victory in the war on terror as unambiguous as the capture of Saddam Hussein, the Bush Administration prodded Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to send 11,000 troops into the country's semiautonomous tribal area in March on a search-and-destroy mission. The quarry: top Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters believed to be hiding out in tribal lands since being routed from Afghanistan three years ago by U.S.-led coalition forces. Some optimists even thought Osama bin Laden might be plotting...
Bakhtiar, who was on the air live during the Sept. 11 attacks, said she welcomed the ouster of Saddam Hussein but criticized the Bush administration for not having a post-war plan...
...Iraqis, such images have come to define the American occupation just as powerfully as the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue did a little more than a year ago. Back then, U.S. Marines and Iraqis worked together to pull down the statue, an event that marked the symbolic end of Saddam's regime. The square was far from full that day. Most ordinary Iraqis were still too scared to venture out of their houses and apartments, preferring to peek through curtains at the arrival of freedom. But the feeling of liberation and joy among those who did go into...
...their future is tied to the U.S. presence, but they're frustrated enough with the lack of security and angry enough at American mistakes to also want the U.S. gone. A USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll of Iraqis released last week showed that while 6 in 10 Iraqis felt that ousting Saddam was worth the hardships they have endured, a similar proportion wanted coalition troops to leave immediately...
...Until recently, Baghdadis tended to view Fallujah, a town of 200,000 people some 30 miles west of the capital, as a big village notable for its conservative townsfolk and excellent grilled meats. Now, right or wrong, it has become a unifying symbol of Iraqis' clamor for self-determination. "Saddam killed the nationalist feelings inside us," says Basim Mohammed Ridha, 42, who sells fertilizer from a shop in downtown Baghdad. "The Americans have forced us to find it again...