updated Sat. August 3, 2024
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San Diego Free Press
April 9, 2018
A few days later, a group of Saddam loyalists threw a bomb at a U.S. vehicle in front of the Abu-Hanifa mosque in my neighborhood in the middle of the day. Two soldiers were killed; others were injured. The soldiers who survived started shooting randomly at civilians on the super busy street next to theÃâà...
TIME
March 20, 2018
In the corner of a Baghdad living room sits an unusual piece of decor—a sizable bust of Saddam Hussein's head, staring implacably out with a military beret on his head. Its owner, politician Mowaffak al-Rubaie, has placed a length of rope around its neck. It's the same rope that was used to hang SaddamÃâà...
The New Arab
March 16, 2018
Recruits, especially high-ranking lieutenants and colonels, were written out of the new Iraq, portrayed as Saddam loyalists or Ba'ath affiliates. What remains in question is whether this successfully reformed Iraq's once centralised conventional army, or whether an assortment of militias granted official statusÃâà...
The Australian
June 2, 2017
I am not sarcastic, I just want to challenge people who make claims, insert the personal, and will not extrapolate 'why' Saddam's regime could not, was not able to crush Daesh, who by the way Warren are formed mostly of EX Saddam loyalists in critically counter insurgency roles and commanders withÃâà...
The Japan Times
June 17, 2015
Beyond the alliance of Saddam loyalists and Islamist extremists born of the Iraq war, al-Baghdadi relies on local Sunnis and their tribes, whereas his jihadi precursors relied more on foreign fighters. Despite thousands of foreign volunteers, jihadi ideologues say Islamic State forces are 90 percent Iraqi andÃâà...
Newsweek
April 17, 2015
Douri is thought to have escaped the purge of Saddam loyalists to Syria, using the cash he stashed away from Baghdad as protection money. Rumors of his death have sporadically surfaced over the last few years, but he was still believed to have been the mastermind of the long-running Sunni insurgencyÃâà...
NBCNews.com
June 19, 2014
ISIS and Saddam Loyalists Brought Together by a Common Enemy. Image: Al-Qaeda inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside the Baiji refinery on Thursday. STR / AP. Share; Share Ãâ÷ Tweet Ãâ÷ Comment Ãâ÷ Email; Print. The turmoil in Iraq has made strange bedfellows ofÃâà...
New York Times
June 18, 2014
ERBIL, Iraq — Meeting with the American ambassador some years ago in Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki detailed what he believed was the latest threat of a coup orchestrated by former officers of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. “Don't waste your time on this coup by the Baathists,” theÃâà...
Mehr News Agency
December 31, 1999
06 (MNA) – Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council and Mohsen Rezaei, , said that the recent riots in Iran were the result of a joint operation of Saddam's loyalists, MKO members, US, Saudi Arabia, and Barzanis. “The scenario designed by MKO members, monarchists, and US put into practice in Iran inÃâà...
