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To: KonKilo who wrote (104869)	7/12/2003 2:06:40 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

That's quite a long ways from having been an official in a murderous regime. An apparatchik is an official, ShilohCat, and the MO of a regime like Saddam's is to make sure that any official with responsibility must get blood on his hands - that way he can never betray the regime because the outraged kin of his victim will be waiting for him. And because Saddam considered only fellow clansmen as safe candidates for responsibility, most of the Sunni and Tikriti tribesmen were apparatchiks. Now obviously even these the apparatchiks must have had wives and kids and some poor cousins whose responsibility was limited to passive cooperation. But the apparatchiks were officials in a murderous regime, and they & their families are the ones, the ONLY ones I would bet, who are pining for the good old days under Saddam.