30th Mar 2003
Fedayeen
Mark my words, “Fadayeen” will take on legendary proportions in the years to come in the annals of fanatical suicidal terrorists. Newsweek reports on what makes these pychos tick:
They began as what analysts at the time dismissed as a ?toy army,? a pet project of Saddam?s volatile eldest son, Uday. He recruited the Saddam Fedayeen (?Martyrs for Saddam?) as a special bodyguard for his father. At first, according to experts on Iraq and defectors from Saddam?s inner circle, they did little more than Uday?s twisted bidding?-picking up girls for him to rape, beating Olympic athletes for losing games, cutting out the tongues of critics of the regime. Meanwhile Uday?s younger and more reliable brother Qusay took charge of his father?s most important paramilitary organizations, especially the feared Special Security Office and the elite Special Republican Guard.
Uday reqcruited the Fedayeen in orphanages and prisons, where candidates for his unique blend of psychopathy and filial devotion were plentiful.
Also contains the kind of quote I love from Rumsfeld: ?If their wish is to die for Saddam Hussein, they will be accommodated.?
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