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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89817)	4/3/2003 11:55:23 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

From the learning channel tlc.discovery.com Born poor near the Iraqi town of Tikrit in 1937, Saddam Hussein was inspired by his uncle to become an Arab nationalist at an early age. By the time he reached 20, Hussein had joined the Baath Party, which espoused Arab unity, liberation from Western powers and economic socialism. But Saddam's true talents lay not with espousing political rhetoric, but in acting as "hired muscle" for the Baath Party. The young dictator-in-training revealed his penchant for ruthlessness when he participated in a 1959 assassination attempt on Iraq's prime minister, Abdel-Karim Qasim. The assassination was botched and Hussein, wounded in the leg, fled to Egypt. While there, according to Hussein biographer Said Aburish, he was one of several Baath Party members who often visited the American Embassy in Cairo. In fact, the Americans and the Baath Party exiles had something in common. Both would be happier if Qasim, with his pro-Communist leanings, was deposed as leader of Iraq. That's just what happened in 1963, through a coup in which the CIA reportedly provided information to army officers involved in the takeover. When Hussein returned to Iraq, he made his name as a brutal interrogator of communists, at least some of whom appeared on lists shared by the CIA, according to biographer Aburish. Soon after, however, the Baath Party itself was toppled and Hussein was thrown in jail for two years.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (89817)	4/4/2003 12:02:21 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

washingtonpost.com Iraqi Man Risked All to Help Free American Soldier By Peter Baker Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, April 4, 2003; Page A01 MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Iraq, April 3 -- Mohammed, a gregarious 32-year-old Iraqi lawyer, went by the hospital in Nasiriyah one day last week to visit his wife, who worked there as a nurse, when he noticed the ominous presence of security agents. Curious, he asked around, and a doctor friend told him an American soldier was being held there. Something made him want to go see. The doctor took him to a first-floor emergency wing where he pointed out the soldier through a glass interior window -- a young woman lying in a bed, bandaged and covered in a white blanket. Inside the room with her was an imposing Iraqi man, clad all in black. Mohammed watched as the man slapped the American woman with his open palm, then again with the back of his hand. In that instant, Mohammed recalled today, he resolved to do something. The next day, when the man in black was not around, Mohammed sneaked in to see the young woman. "Don't worry, don't worry," he told her. He was going to help. REST AT:http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A23979-2003Apr3?language=printer