Word: saddamism
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...Saddam Hussein, he sounds like a man who knows his end is near. In a taped address to the Iraqi people broadcast on an Arab cable news channel on Tuesday, a man believed to be the fugitive dictator acknowledged the death last week of his sons Uday and Qusay, proclaiming them martyrs in a "jihad" that would ultimately defeat America. But the tape may turn out to be an auto-epitaph by a man U.S. commanders confidently proclaim will very soon be within their sights. Saddam's top bodyguard was captured near Tikrit on Tuesday, and U.S. commanders have suggested...
Last week was rough for disciples of Saddam Hussein. But while Saddam's sons were being gunned down by U.S. forces, another less famous supporter of the fugitive Iraqi dictator held his ground. Mowaffaq Mahmoud al-Ani, Iraq's ex-Ambassador to China, has completed seven weeks of an armed occupation of Iraq's embassy in Beijing. According to Talal al-Khudairi, who has been tapped by Iraq's new Foreign Ministry to assume the ambassadorship, al-Ani received a telegram relieving him of his duties on June 6. Determined to ignore the order, al-Ani chained the doors...
...China's Foreign Ministry to intervene on his behalf, but thus far Beijing has merely posted extra guards outside the embassy. "This man is a thug," says al-Khudairi. "He did not win his position because of his qualifications as a diplomat but because of his loyalty to Saddam." These days, that's a commodity in scarce demand...
...feel it was the right decision and I'm glad I did it." Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense, responding to questions about the Pentagon's decision last week to release graphic photographs of the bullet-ridden corpses of Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay...
...want the Americans to kill the father." Akram Shahab, resident of Mosul, Iraq, reacting to news of the deaths of Saddam's sons...