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...last week when the IRAQ NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM beat Saudi Arabia, 3-1, to qualify for its first-ever Olympic berth. Baghdad's beleaguered residents reveled in their victory, firing tracer rounds and other ammo into the air. For a squad once routinely brutalized by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, the game was finally untainted by terror...
...last week when the Iraq national soccer team beat Saudi Arabia, 3-1, to qualify for its first-ever Olympic berth. Baghdad's beleaguered residents reveled in their victory, firing tracer rounds and other ammo into the air. For a squad once routinely brutalized by Saddam Hussein's son Uday, the game was for once untainted by terror...
...seem to get Iraq out of his mind. “For class we’re supposed to be doing a sculpture and somehow Saddam’s face just gets incorporated into it.” Apparently Stern has taken more than a piece of Uday Hussein’s marble wall away from his experience in Iraq...
...meals, Tootsie Rolls and water bottles filled with tobacco juice. Heat comes from three portable radiators. The platoon's house--the hooch, as the G.I.s call it--lies within the perimeter of the Azimiya palace compound, built by Saddam in the mid-1990s for his oldest son Uday. The portion of the palace not destroyed by U.S. missiles now functions as the 2nd Battalion's Tactical Operations Center. During the summer, the troops filled the swimming pool and built a sand volleyball court on the grounds. Lieut. Colonel William Rabena, the battalion's stout commanding officer, sleeps...
That the Americans captured Saddam alive spares Bush the problem he faced after Saddam's sons were killed last summer: even after camera crews were allowed to film the dead bodies of Uday and Qusay, many Iraqis remained unconvinced it was them. Given the depraved legacies of the sons, it was like trying to convince the Iraqis that the devil had been killed. This time, the devil is in custody, walking, talking, clearly himself. "I imagine he was almost relieved," a Pentagon official said. "I mean, he lost his power, his country, his sons--and he lost his freedom...