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  • Saddam's kid army trained to play dirty

    04/03/2003 4:00:52 AM PST · by kattracks · 9 replies · 157+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | 4/03/03 | JOHNNY DWYER
    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...