[A. Pole]

When Assad or Saddam Huddein had problem at most it was buried in small print.

Tell us about a major attack that the Islamists carried out against Hussein that was then buried in small print.

Hussein did not allow Islamists to organize on a large scale. He was keeping them under his thumb. But Assad razed down the whole pro-Islamists city once.

[Dave Olson]

Hussein did not allow Islamists to organize on a large scale. He was keeping them under his thumb.

Keeping them under his thumb, my ass! He was giving people like Abu Nidal and Zarqawi sanctuary. He even had a passenger jet in Salman Pak that was used to train hijackers.

[Sam Hill]

Hussein did not allow Islamists to organize on a large scale. He was keeping them under his thumb.