https://freerepublic.com/tag/ashbalsaddam/ en-us Sun, 30 Mar 2003 01:46:54 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879603/posts Part three: The Fedayeen have vowed to step up their suicide bombings. Neil Mackay reports that they are just one string of militias ready to fight to the death for Saddam YOU'LL have seen one of their number already -- a middle-aged man in a blue serge suit with a keffiyeh scarf wrapped around his head. As the TV cameras rolled, he triumphantly waved his Czech-made assault rifle in the air while Iraqi villagers in the distance behind him stripped down the US Apache helicopter he'd just shot down. This avuncular-looking farmer, Ali Obeid, now praised as a national hero... Sunday Herald https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/879603/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2003 01:46:54 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/883780/posts American troops threatened by chemical weapons and suicide bombings face another danger when they reach Baghdad - Saddam Hussein's army of children. Well-trained, ferocious and 8,000-strong, the Ashbal Saddam - Saddam's Lion Cubs - are waiting in the capital for U.S. forces to arrive, said Peter Singer, a fellow with Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. The Cubs are a junior Fedayeen Saddam - the militia directed by the Iraqi dictator's oldest son, Uday - whose fake surrenders and ruthless tactics in southern Iraq surprised U.S. war planners. "Whatever the Fedayeen has been willing to do, you can extrapolate that... New York Daily News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/883780/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:00:52 GMT