Word: tikrit
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...sighted meeting with aides. British intelligence, however, says the Iraqi leader was seen escaping the site moments before the bombing. Iraqi opposition sources say he slipped out of the capital with at least one of his sons. Some speculated he may try to retreat to his hometown of Tikrit, to make a final stand among his kith and kin. But a persistent rumor in the Arab world suggested Saddam may have taken refuge in the Russian embassy, also in al-Mansour...
...Saddam loyalists are also fighting on in the key northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk, and Tikrit has long been seen as a potential center of die-hard resistance. But the image of crowds in Baghdad tearing down Saddam's statues will have an immeasurable psychological effect on all Iraqis, and coalition commanders will be hoping that will speed the collapse of the last resistance to "Operation Iraqi Freedom...
...nationalist ideology that sought to liberate the Arab world by brutally controlling its people: Iraq's ruling Ba'ath party was founded in 1947 to promote an Arab renaissance throughout the Middle East. Saddam turned Iraq's branch of that party into a front organization serving his Tikrit family mafia and his own Stalinist cult of personality. And that inevitably produced the bungling that led Iraq into the disastrous wars with Iran, Kuwait and the United States. Nasser lost a chunk of Egypt; Saddam lost all of Iraq...
...news of the uprising in Baghdad on the BBC Arabic shortwave service and his soldiers spontaneously began singing and dancing. "We are not just happy for ourselves as Kurds but for all Iraqis," he said. "Plus we were always afraid he would come back." Whether Hussein is in Baghdad, Tikrit or has died means nothing, he said. "Whether he is alive or not, he is dead. The Americans will catch him and kill...
Republican Guard 60,000-100,000 Controlled by Saddam's younger son and heir, Qusay, the Guard includes three divisions deployed around Baghdad and one near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. Guard forces crushed a Shi'ite uprising in Basra in 1991. Though the Guard's heavy weaponry is outdated, U.S. officials believe Saddam may have deployed chemical weapons to the Medina Division...