Word: saddamism
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...understand what led them to do such an awful thing. Did the foreign soldiers treat the local population as equal human beings? Definitely not. Is the occupation considered desirable by the majority of Iraqis? Presumably not. Have the circumstances under which the people live improved since the removal of Saddam Hussein and the military invasion? Not at all. Those are only a few of the reasons for the Iraqis' remarkable hatred of the U.S. troops. As a consequence, such crimes happen. Mohammed Irfan Al-Qudham Deir-ez-Zor, Syria...
...That picture showed exactly the type of torture that Saddam's thugs used.The Americans promised us that things would be different than they were under Saddam. They lied." HASSAN SAEED, 27-year-old Iraqi, reacting to one of the images, which showed a hooded man standing on a box with wires attached to his hands. CBS reported that the prisoner was told he would be electrocuted if he fell...
Plan C - or is it plan D? - for Fallujah involves the Marines withdrawing from their siege lines around the insurgent-held town and allowing one of Saddam Hussein's top former generals to lead a newly constituted Iraqi military unit to go in and restore calm. The new initiative, announced Thursday by local Marine commander Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne, follows days of negotiation with former Iraqi generals and local politicians. It comes three weeks after the Marines first went in to punish those responsible for killing and mutilating four U.S. private security men, and 10 days after the first attempt...
...There was some confusion surrounding the new plan Thursday, with at least one senior U.S. official insisting to CNN that no such deal had been struck. Even if it does go through, the proposal to send in a unit cobbled together from recalled elements of Saddam's army (and one that may be more inclined to enforce a cease-fire rather than to actually destroy the insurgents) highlights the strategic dilemma posed by Fallujah...
...Saleh, a former Republican Guard division commander. The FPA would report to the local Marine commander, and will be charged with subduing insurgent activity in the city to end attacks from there on Coalition forces. Many of the insurgents fighting in Fallujah are believed to be former members of Saddam's Republican Guard and intelligence services, to whom an Iraqi unit comprised of members of the old army and run by a familiar commander may appear to be a friendly force. That may give it the capacity to enforce a cease-fire and end the immediate crisis, although...