Baghdad - Dressed in starched khaki military uniforms with a veil covering their heads, Iraqi women fighters have enrolled in Saddam Hussein's Al-Quds Army to liberate Jerusalem from Israeli rule. These "glorious Iraqi women" as they are known paraded in the streets of Baghdad this week as part of the last batch of some 7 000 men and women in the army created by the Iraqi president and said to number more than seven million. Young and old and from all walks of life, the women wore guns strapped to their hips as they marched past a huge portrait of...
