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...DIED. SEIN LWIN, 81, former Burmese President and army general known as the "Butcher of Rangoon"; in Rangoon. A member of the military junta that seized control of Burma in 1962, Sein Lwin was behind some of the army's bloodiest massacres of civilians. These included the killings of hundreds of students protesting the 1962 coup and of an estimated 3,000 people in street demonstrations in 1988, during which Sein Lwin replaced strongman Ne Win as President. But he was unable to quell the political agitation and stepped down after only 18 days in office...
...much so that the White House felt compelled to affirm that the killings would not deter the U.S. from staying the course in Iraq. That the White House felt the need to reiterate that assurance in response to the incident was telling in itself: It may have been the bloodiest day of the past three months, but there have been far bloodier days for the U.S. in the past 11 months of occupation, which have seen some 459 U.S. soldiers killed...
...Saddam himself knew all about the power of symbols. For decades his propagandists compared him to Saladin, the great Muslim general of the 1100s. Saladin, like Saddam, was born in Tikrit (though Saladin was a Kurd), and at the Battle of Hattin in Galilee in 1187, he won the bloodiest and most comprehensive victory that Muslim armies ever achieved against Christian Crusaders. The murals in Baghdad of Saddam on a white horse, with a drawn sword - laughably kitsch to Western tastes - were a deliberate attempt to link him to Saladin?s blessed memory...
...seems, were the G.I.s. That night, safely back at their base in Baghdad, the soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade tallied their hits. They reported that they had killed 54 Iraqi fighters in what had been the bloodiest clash since the start of the U.S. postwar occupation of Iraq. The next day General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the engagement a harsh lesson for Iraqi insurgents: "They attacked and they were killed. So I think it will be instructive to them...
...POSTWAR'S BLOODIEST CLASH: A fierce fight in samarra yields two very different body counts...