Word: saddamized
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...Marines and served in Vietnam as a company commander. He learned his political skills as the Marine liaison to the Senate in the early 1980s. Back in the field in 1991, he led a Marine expeditionary unit into northern Iraq to rescue millions of Kurdish refugees from Saddam Hussein. Two years later, he ran the U.S. aid mission to Bosnia. Jones became the top Marine...
...they clashed with Khomeini in the years that followed, leading to the killing, imprisonment and exile of thousands of the group's members. In 1986 the MEK set up a base at Camp Ashraf, located in Iraq's eastern Diyala province, and began receiving funding and protection from Saddam to launch attacks over the border into Iran...
...formally handed control of the Green Zone, the fortified U.S. and Iraqi-government stronghold, back to the Iraqis. The Americans also vacated the compound's ornate Republican Palace - Saddam Hussein's jewel, which the U.S. used as its administrative and then diplomatic headquarters throughout the occupation. U.S. soldiers are now technically guests on Iraqi soil under the new U.S.-Iraqi security pact...
...million complex within the Green Zone is a significant step away from the U.S. government's former headquarters in Saddam Hussein's ornate, marble-filled republican palace, which was handed back to the Iraqis when the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve. The new place is stark and practical - like a "straightforward business office," except with heavy security, says Master Sergeant Patrick McDonald, who heads the embassy's work on the upcoming Iraqi elections. He adds, "In a way, you sort of miss the touch of Saddam...
...exhibition on the history of U.S.-Iraq relations in the next building over, where framed photos and copies of cultural and diplomatic agreements between the two countries document a rosy exchange from the 1930s to 2008. The more awkward moments in U.S.-Iraq history - like U.S. support of Saddam during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war and the troubled early years of U.S. occupation - were left...