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Revelations from Saddam's inner circle.(Saddam Hussein)(Brief article)
Following the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, the U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) commissioned a detailed study of primary source accounts--both printed documents and accounts from captured senior Iraqi leaders--of Saddam's regime. A useful summary of that study is found in "Saddam's Delusions: A View from the Inside," in the May-June issue of Foreign Affairs, the journal of the internationalist Council on Foreign Relations.
Not surprisingly, the portrait offered in the USJFCOM study is of a hideous, secretive regime ruled by a dictator capable of murder on a whim. For instance, in 1982 he had the Iraqi minister of health arrested and murdered, and the victim's chopped-up body delivered to his widow. Such was the punishment for the minister's suggestion that Saddam relinquish power.
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