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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44300)	7/28/2003 1:27:36 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

the Sum of Two Evils: The death of Saddam's news is by now old news however the Times has a nice feature on these twin tyrants with frightening excerpts: Uday tightened the focus on a pretty 14-year-old girl in a bright yellow dress sitting with her father, a former provincial governor, her mother and her younger brother and sister. After three days the girl was returned to her home, with a new dress, a new watch and a large sum of cash. Her parents had her tested for rape; the result was positive. According to Shabaan's account, Uday heard she had been tested and sent aides to the clinic, where they warned doctors not to report a rape. And according to many Muslims his father was the modern day Saladin standing up for the Islamic world. Those who supported Saddam (implicitly or explicitly) provide justification and credence to such depraved acts. Just as it can not have a place in the modern world so too must the Muslim escapist ideology (Saddam and OBL were liberators etc...) fade away or it will succumb to being a crude defence for tyrants, murderers and rapists. When stories such as this seep through it provides adequate reason for the liberation of Iraq. Saddam had created a national institution which trained and encouraged extreme strains of pyschopathic behaviour. It was a necessity to dismantle it before it's corrosive effect had perpetually scarred the Iraqi people and imprint on them that such deviancy was normal. The liberation struggle was essentially over the redemption of a nation and it's reintegration into the family of nations. Another informative excerpt: These tensions may help explain why, according to both a family servant and the source familiar with Uday's surrender bid, the brothers went separate ways when it came time to go into hiding. One is left wondering the logistics of the operation that dispersed Saddam and his family. How did they keep in contact and did they even in the slightest anticipated the possibility of going into hiding? Interesting questions, but thankfully not interesting nor important enough to keep Uday or Qusay alive. There are peculiars moment in history when the death of a human being results in the upliftment of the human condition. Such wholly evil individuals are a blight and must be put out for their own sake more than anything else. Uday and Qusay ranks as such individuals and the balance in the human condition is soon returning to equilibria. Perhaps when Qiaymat (day of judgement in traditional Islamic theology) is visited on Saddam amongst a flurry of American bullets only then can the true healing process begin. Zachary Latif 18:39