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To: Road Walker who wrote (239323)	6/29/2005 4:58:09 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572382

re: A local businessman who did not want to be identified for fear of reprisal compared the current strict rule to life under Hussein. "The same thing is happening now," he said. "During Saddam, we had the secret police. Now it's coming again. If you say something bad, they shoot you in the night." Basra, a veritable paradise. This is a very real possibility for the ultimate outcome for most of Iraq, sort of a replay of Taliban/Afghanistan. What makes this worse is that this is the area of the country that supposedly was doing better. Now we find out that freedom is almost as elusive as it was under Saddam. ted