[RLK]

Speaking through an interpreter, he continues in guttural Arabic: "Our fighters are protecting our religion. We cannot allow foreigners to occupy our country."

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Yup.

[Travis McGee]

It is a week before the attack, and we are in the garden at the comfortable home of one of his relatives in a west Baghdad suburb.

Anyone who grew fat and comfy under Saddam was a Saddamist. Period. Anyone who claims otherwise is a fool.