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Shame and Honor, Terribly Twisted: A central truth of Arab culture is on full display in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath party loyalists are fighting for their lives. The conventions of war mean nothing to these masters of brutality and ruse. They employ death squads to massacre their own people in order to prevent them from accepting food and water from coalition forces. Dressed as civilians, they hide behind women and children, and open fire in the certain knowledge that any return of fire must claim innocent victims. They place anti-aircraft weapons in or near schools and hospitals and markets, and use ambulances to convey arms. Then they blame coalition forces for casualties that they have made sure will occur. Young Iraqis, presumed to be defectors, have ...
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- Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database July 16, 2000 700+ words
...Party says that dissident groups within the Ba'th Party have prepared a communique attacking...call themselves the "Real Leadership of the Ba'th Party," the statement reportedly calls on all Ba'thists to unite against Saddam Husseyn. In...
- Saddam Hussein: The Politics of Revenge.(Review) (book review)
- Magazine article from: Midstream Lewis, Jonathan Eric May 1, 2001 700+ words
...understand who Saddam Hussein is, how the West...K. Aburish's Saddam Hussein: The Politics...and aiding in the Ba'athist regime...Arab-nationalist Ba'ath party, a...s work is that Saddam Hussein is a latter-day...
- The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Military Review Aboul-Enein, Youssef H. November 1, 2004 700+ words
...Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein, Sandra Mackey, W...Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein. Mackey also has written...Mackey points out that Saddam Hussein did not create the military...arrived in 1968 that Ba'athism tamed the armed...
- Saddam Hussein's three-ring circus: power in Baghdad is primarily a family...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Lief, Louise September 10, 1990 700+ words
The ouster of Saddam Hussein would relieve his enemies...extended family around Saddam Hussein. Like the Corleone...world that has shaped Saddam Hussein. Born in 1937 in the...you." Saddam joined Ba'ath Party gangs who...
- Bombs away - then what? (concern that an American attack on Iraq may cause...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Auster, Bruce B. February 9, 1998 700+ words
...were acknowledging that Saddam Hussein had once again maneuvered...end of the gulf war--Saddam Hussein's ability to retain...angering world opinion. Saddam Hussein has, in the past, herded...14 at Eglin Air Force Ba
- Couldn't be worse? Iraq after saddam.(President Saddam Hussein)
- Magazine article from: The National Interest Bengio, Ofra December 22, 2001 700+ words
...solved once President Saddam Hussein disappeared from the...changes that Saddam and the Ba'athi regime have wrought...state controlled by the Ba'ath and two fractious...questions are pertinent: Is Saddam Hussein walking in the footsteps...the last 33 years: the Ba'ath Party, ...
- Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf.
- Magazine article from: The Nation Shalom, Stephen R. February 25, 1991 700+ words
SADDAM HUSSEIN AND THE CRISIS IN THE GULF. As U.S...Iraq. Wars require their villains, and Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf shows how...Saddam Husayn exercises control over the Ba'ath party, including the ideologues...
- The Arab Solzhenitsyn? (Kanan Makiya's book elucidates the tortures executed by...
- Magazine article from: The Middle East October 1, 1993 700+ words
...the uprising against the Ba'athist regime in the aftermath...The horrors perpetrated by Saddam Hussein which are revealed by Kanan...Solzhenitsyn". The depravation of Saddam Hussein was revealed for the first...spent working on projects for Saddam Hussein, such as the ...
