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Two Weeks Before Christmas! T'was two weeksbefore Christmas, And all through Iraq, The people still worried that Saddam would be back. The soldiers went out on their nightly patrol, Capturing the bad guys was always their goal! With raids seeming endless in the triangle Sunni, We hoped that not all of Iraq was so looney! We gathered the tribe of Saddam, in Tikrit, And suddenly now they all started to snit! They told of a farm where Hussein just might be Odierno then called on our boys- from the great 4th ID! More rapid than Baathists our soldiers they came,...

Islamabad, April 19, IRNA -- A senior leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) on Saturday said Saddam Hussain bowed out under a deal forged with the United States. Syed Kabir Ali Wasti told IRNA here in an interview that Iraq's ex-president played the role of an agent of the US and facilitated its military action against his own country and people. "Saddam has been serving American interests for decades and, in this context, one cannot forget Iraq's war against Iran and its invasion of Kuwait," he said to substantiate his viewpoint. The analyst maintained that the ruling Iraqi...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said early on Sunday that it bombed the main training site for Iraqi Fedayeen paramilitary forces, a presidential palace, intelligence complex and surface-to-air missile sites in Baghdad. Calling them "key" strikes, satellite-guided bombs targeted the main training facility of the Fedayeen paramilitary forces at about 11:30 p.m. Iraqi time on Saturday (2030 GMT), the statement from the U.S. military's Combined Forces Air Component Command said. The strike targeted the training facility's barracks in eastern Baghdad, the statement said. "The Fedayeen in this area are in charge of security functions in eastern Baghdad," it said....