[nukkad] Saddam Hussein and his pre-war thinking

["Indian Rediff" <>]

>>From the article in Foreign Affairs magazine.

http://tinyurl.com/ea5ut


The Editor's note:

The fall of Baghdad in April 2003 opened one of the most secretive and
brutal governments in history to outside scrutiny. For the first time
since the end of World War II, American analysts did not have to guess
what had happened on the other side of a conflict but could actually
read the defeated enemy's documents and interrogate its leading
figures. To make the most of this unique opportunity, the U.S. Joint
Forces Command (USJFCOM) commissioned a comprehensive study of the
inner workings and behavior of Saddam Hussein's regime based on
previously inaccessible primary sources. Drawing on interviews with
dozens of captured senior Iraqi military and political leaders and
hundreds of thousands of official Iraqi documents (hundreds of them
fully translated), this two-year project has changed our understanding
of the war from the ground up. The study was partially declassified in
late February; its key findings are presented here.

I would love to print the entire article here - but will instead do so
at our common e-mail on gmail.

Suffice it to sa that some of the incidents quoted in the article had
me chortling away. We may have seen delusional people, but Saddam has
taken it to a new level.

Sai


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