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| Iraq |
| Saddam’s secret service and officers are ISIS’ backbone |
| 2015-04-21 |
| [Rudaw] The black clothes, balaclavas, boots, the violence--it took me a while to realize where I had seen them before they became ISIS' trademarks. Then it struck me: the Fedayeen Saddam. A special force Saddam Hussein set up in the 1990s to fight a guerrilla war against any enemy--the most probable one being the American army--as the Americans were more and more critical of Saddam's ambitions. And these highly trained and hardened men in black did actually fight against them in the first weeks of the American invasion in 2003. I remember a location in Basra where the Fedayeen were said to have fought to their deaths to defend a water basin that could have hidden weapons or chemicals. During the street battles reported then in Basra and Umm Qasr, many Fedayeen took part. Even in the battles in the center of Kirkuk with the Peshmerga, some witnesses say the black-clothed Fedayeen were there--fighting till their demise. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 ...Lots of these guys survived ODS and OIF, because 1) their job was to hide out until called for, and 2) they are vicious bullies who tend not to challenge trained men with guns. Old they may be but they are the keepers of the flame, and we should have learned by now that berserk Muslims - be they fundies or more sectarian - know how to play a long game. We've NEVER learned. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2015-04-21 08:54 |
| #4 I see from the pic that ISIS is still going with the Fedayeen Saddam 10' foot tall soldier propaganda? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-04-21 08:08 |
| #3 Its the elders that send young men to their deaths. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2015-04-21 06:02 |
| #2 Aren't they getting a bit "long in the tooth" for this? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-04-21 01:46 |
| #1 More evidence that Obama's cut-n-run in Iraq for the election was a disaster. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-04-21 00:43 |