[DED]

Do you wonder why the Iraqis don't just give up? Here's at least part of the reason - the Fedayeen Saddam have terrorized the Iraqi civilian population to the point where they will be set upon and killed as soon as the people no longer have a reason to fear them.

It may get a lot tougher to avoid killing civilians because of these murderers. And will Kofi Annan and the other anti-Americans at the UN blame Saddam? These people don't know how to assign blame anywhere BUT the United States.

[MeekOneGOP]

[chance33_98]

The sociology and psychology of terrorism: Who becomes a terrorist and why? (A must read)

[MeekOneGOP]

I heard that they were responsible for 100,000 deaths in Basrah some years ago when Basrah revolted.

[WarSlut]

Saddam has since given control the Fedayeen over to his more stable son Qusay.

I'm just trying to figure out how one dead son can be any more or less stable than the other dead son...

I guess Qusay's corpse was easier to put back together than Uday's.

Whatever, they're both rotting in hell now.

[aged]

the fedayeen had a lot of extra time to stash weapons, settle in all the cities that they are in today, thanks to the u.n., blixx and especially the french. i will never get over the anger i have for france.

[blandbutmarvellous]

I heard on the radio last night that village life in Iraq was really monotonously predictable. In particular, the villages basically shut down at sunset and nobody moved around or traveled at night.

Except the Fedayeen.

[Polybius]

Khalid says they are frequently strangers to the towns and cities in which they operate.

After this war is over, there will be a lot of dead "strangers" littering the streets of Iraqi towns and villages.

[RLK]

In order to escape detection, not every Fedayeen member travels around armed. What this force seems to have done in preparation for the war is to hide weapons caches in each town, in nondescript places. When it comes time to fight, they go from place to place as civilians, locate their weapons, and surprise their targets.

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This is one of several such groups, some more highly connected to Islam instead of Hussein. What we are dealing with is groups with weapons hidden in every home, school, hospital, and mosque who are indiscernable from the general population. At the same time, they are capable of controlling the general population. Their own lives mean very little to them and suicide attacks are considered an expression of devout virtue. They exist in the tens of thousands or in numbers far greater. They move from country to country.

Killing them, if they can even be found, while they are dressed as civilians will create a field day for exploitation by the leftist media.

The only thing that can be done in the immediate future is knock off Saddam Hussein and his hencemen, destroy the military and any weapons, then get the hell out or we will be chewed to pieces in a way such that our airplanes and tanks will be useless.

Over the long term, Islam must be systemtically thoroughly discredited. Guerilla movements similar to the Husein model above must be organized and trained to battle Islam. Otherwise, we're dead meat.

[dark_lord]

Once the Iraqi civilians know we are there in force and there to stay, they will finger these rats. And we will get them. Hopefully most will try to shoot it out with our guys -- which will mean they will be eliminated. Others will give up and will be hauled off to be tried as war criminals.

[xm177e2]

Memo to the Bush Administration: LET THE OPPOSITION WIN

[SuziQ]

The danger is that the Americans won't know how to tell them apart from ordinary Iraqis

The townspeople will know they are Fedayeen, because they were 'strangers' when they descended on the towns. I believe that these townspeople, when they come to believe that Sadaam is no longer in charge, will turn these young men in to the allies. I think that has already begun to happen in Basra, now that the people understand why the Coalition is there.

[Allan]

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