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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Fedayeen Saddam
		Fedayeen Saddam (فدائيي صدام) was a paramilitary organization loyal to the former Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein.
		The Fedayeen Saddam was not part of Iraq's regular armed forces but rather operated as a paramilitary unit of irregular forces.
		The Fedayeen were among the most loyal organizations to the government of Saddam Hussein and were a politically reliable force against domestic opponents.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Fedayeen_Saddam (891 words)

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		U.S. and British authorities complain that Fedayeen Saddam guerrillas are not fighting fair, using tactics that include taking up combat positions inside hospitals, dressing as civilians with weapons hidden under their clothes and pretending to surrender, only to open fire as soon as coalition troops lower their guard.
		According to descriptions by U.S. officials, Fedayeen Saddam may well be behind many of the casualties suffered by coalition forces so far in southern Iraq and could be responsible for luring at least 10 American soldiers into a trap near An Nasiriyah in which at least five were killed and another five were taken prisoner.
		The word "fedayeen" in Arabic means "those who sacrifice." It originally was the name adopted by Palestinian guerrillas who launched hundreds of hit-and-run attacks against Israel in the 1950s.
	www.tga-panama.com /2003/032803_fedayeen.htm (647 words)

	Fedayeen Saddam / Saddam's Martyrs ["Men of Sacrifice"] - Iraqi Intelligence Agencies
		The paramilitary Fedayeen Saddam (Saddam's `Men of Sacrifice') was founded by Saddam's son Uday in 1995.
		In September 1996 Uday was removed from command of the Fedayeen.
		The Fedayeen, with a total strength reportedly between 18,000 and 40,000 troops, was composed of young soldiers recruited from regions loyal to Saddam.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/iraq/fedayeen.htm (700 words)

	IRAQ: What is the Fedayeen Saddam? - Council on Foreign Relations
		Experts say the Fedayeen Saddam, or Saddam's Men of Sacrifice, is a 30,000 to 40,000-member Iraqi paramilitary group that appears to be leading guerrilla-style attacks on coalition forces in southern Iraq.
		The CIA says it distributed a classified report in early February to policymakers warning that the Fedayeen could be expected to employ guerrilla tactics against U.S. rear units.
		Pentagon officials said March 24 that the Fedayeen, who are considered very loyal to the regime, also act as enforcers in regular army units, threatening to kill soldiers who try to surrender.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7698 (1475 words)

	Analysis: Who are the Fedayeen Saddam?
		Fedayeen in classical Arabic literally means "one who is prepared to die," but the word is more generally used to describe guerilla fighters, with connotations of loyalty and ferocity.
		Eisenstadt said that control of the Fedayeen was turned over to Qusay in September 1996, possibly because Saddam was angry with Uday for diverting weapons and materiel intended for the Republican Guard to the Fedayeen without permission.
		The Fedayeen reports directly to the presidential palace, bypassing the Iraqi military command structure, according to Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2003/030327-fedayeen01.htm (727 words)

	Iraqi Perspectives Project: Fedayeen Saddam (Regime of Terror)
		The authors of the project detail the function of Fedayeen Saddam, an Iraqi militia fiercly loyal to Saddam Hussein, as another extension of the former regime's arm of both in domestic and international terrorism.
		For instance, a recovered letter to Uday Hussein, from a Fedayeen Saddam widow, was a request for pension benefits after her husband carried out a successful suicide operation against Kurdish targets in Northern Iraq.
		Fedayeen Saddam was also the recipient of some of the regime's most sophisticated commando/terrorist operation equipment.
	regimeofterror.com /archives/2006/08/iraqi_perspectives_project_fed (560 words)

	Saddam's Secret Weapon?, Fedayeen A Tough Militia Force Personally Loyal To Iraqi Leader - CBS News
		U.S. intelligence believes the Fedayeen were dispatched from their strongholds in the Baghdad area to outlying areas over the last few weeks.
		Fedayeen members receive monthly salaries of up to $100, compared to the $3 government employees are paid each month.
		In 1999, the Fedayeen were responsible for a crackdown on Shiites in a Baghdad suburb who were protesting the assassination of Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, a leading Iraqi Shiite cleric, and his two sons in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/03/24/iraq/printable545802.shtml (877 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Middle East \| The Fedayeen: Saddam's loyal force
		American commanders say the Fedayeen has stiffened the resolve of regular army commanders through intimidation, refusing to allow them to surrender, and providing the manpower for harassment and sniping on enemy columns.
		The Fedayeen was founded by Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday in 1995, but command is now believed to rest with his second son, Qusay.
		From the beginning, Fedayeen units consisted to a large extent of local toughs who could be relied upon to protect the president and his family, put down dissent and carry out much of the police's dirty work.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/2881889.stm (394 words)

	Fedayeen Saddam - Saddam's Men of Sacrifice
		The Fedayeen Saddam are comprised of young and politically reliable paramilitary soldiers that may be leveraged against perceived domestic agitators and opponents of the Al-Baath regime.
		Since their creation in 1995 by Saddam Hussein's oldest son Uday, Fedayeen members have been primarily recruited from regions loyal to Saddam Hussein.
		Numerous reports suggest that a faction of Fedayeen Saddam, called Fidayi Saddam was responsible for the decapitation campaign directed against female prostitutes during June 2000 through May 2001.
	www.iraqinews.com /org_fedayeen_saddam.shtml (146 words)

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		The Fedayeen described here, however, are the elite commando raiders of the Islamic Federation.
		The Fedayeen specialize in close assaults, night fighting and sabotage.
		Fedayeen themselves never surrender, prefering to make a suicidal charge or to blow themselves (and ideally nearby enemies) up with demo charges or grenades.
	www.stargrunt.ca /toe/sg2_toe_fedayeen/fedayeen.htm (433 words)

	Hussein's loyal fighters still a Baghdad threat \| csmonitor.com
		But the persistence in Baghdad's streets of the fedayeen - the 5,000 loyalists who are bolstered by other Arab fighters, and who have presented the stiffest resistance to US forces as they battled their way up to the capital - highlights the threat of guerrilla attacks against Iraqis and Americans alike.
		But as the young-faced fedayeen claimed that he had been forced to join, cleric Mussawi cut him off, reminding him that the fedayeen were reportedly paid 500,000 Iraqi dinars, or about $200, for each operation.
		Fedayeen is a missionary job; you are misrepresenting the faith, and slaves of wealth.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0415/p01s04-woiq.html (993 words)

	Fedayeen attacks on Israel in the 1950s
		The fedayeen acts of terror, supported by the Arab countries led, eventually, to the outbreak of the Sinai Campaign.
		The fedayeen terrorist attacks violated provision of the UN-brokered 1949 Armistice Agreement that prohibited the initiation of hostilities by paramilitary forces.
		In her statement to the UN General Assembly on January 17, 1957, Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister Of Israel, recited the many violations and acts of bad faith by the Egyptians that led to the Sinai Campaign and its aftermath.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1948to1967_fedayeen.php (565 words)

	Fedayeen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fedayeen were based in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Syria.
		The Fedayeen were recruited, armed and trained mainly by the PLO.
		In July 2003, the personnel records of the entire Fedayeen organization in Iraq was discovered in the basement of the former Fedayeen headquarters in east Baghdad near the Al-Rashid Airfield.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fedayeen (659 words)

	Fedayeen 'vows to avenge killing of sons' - War on Iraq - smh.com.au
		Fedayeen 'vows to avenge killing of sons' - War on Iraq - smh.com.au
		Gunmen calling themselves Saddam Hussein's Fedayeen militia vowed to step up attacks on US forces and Iraqi collaborators to avenge the killing of his sons Uday and Qusay, in a video aired on Al-Arabiya television yesterday.
		The group, flanked by assault rifles and rocked-propelled grenades, said they were members of "Saddam's Fedayeen Organisation" in the province of Al-Anbar, west of Baghdad, where US forces have repeatedly come under attack by elements believed to be loyalists of Saddam's ousted regime.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/07/25/1058853211303.html (432 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Analysts Say Threat Warnings Toned Down
		The fedayeen, also known as "martyrs of Saddam" or "men of sacrifice," were organized in 1995 by Uday Hussein.
		CIA and Pentagon analysts disagree about how long the fedayeen and other units, such as the 15,000 members of the Special Republican Guard and the Special Security Organization, a force of 10,000 that enforces Baath Party orders, would continue to fight.
		While U.S. forces will be advancing with even greater caution in the face of the fedayeen threat, he said, they will continue to move toward Baghdad, which he described as "the center of gravity" in Iraq.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A34283-2003Mar26?language=printer (855 words)

	The Intelligence Network :
		Kuwaiti border troops have arrested 11 Iraqi 'fedayeen' infiltrators, on a mission to carry out a bombing campaign in Kuwait, as they tried to slip across the frontier, Kuwaiti officials have told reporters.
		Up to 30,000 members of Iraq's fl-hooded Fedayeen Saddam militia are using terrorist tactics to fight coalition forces in southern Iraq, are threatening the local population, and, intelligence reports indicate, plan to don U.S. military uniforms.
		British forces in southern Iraq were placed on high alert yesterday after reports that the Fedayeen, Saddam Hussein's ultra-loyal "brigade of martyrs", are operating in the area.
	www.intellnet.org /news/?type=category&value=Fedayeen (320 words)

	Laserlight: StarGrunt> TO> IF Fedayeen Platoon
		Fedayeen quality is Veteran or Elite for infantry, Regular or Veteran for other units.
		Fedayeen usually operate beyond support range of other units, but if artillery or aerospace assets are available, the fedayeen usually get first priority.
		Sometimes a single death commando decides to (or is assigned to) assassinate or destroy a specific target.
	mysite.verizon.net /laserlight/sg/fedayeen.htm (452 words)

	‘We’re Fighting Two Wars Here’ - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		A column of 200 to 300 Fedayeen was spotted on Highway 1, heading south from Baghdad toward Al Hillah in central Iraq, dressed in British and American uniforms.
		Saddam Fedayeen were even responsible for an ambush last Sunday over Najaf of the 101st Division’s 11th Aviation Regiment, according to the unit’s after-action report, NEWSWEEK learned.
		The Fedayeen used cellphones to coordinate massed small arms fire from roads and rooftops along the lanes the choppers were using when they approached the city.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3068440 (949 words)

	Fedayeen's grisly list of orders he obeyed / Assassinations, breaking backs, cleaving heads
		The Fedayeen used a training base in Quarea on the northern edge of Baghdad, a fact confirmed by U.S. military officials who have seized the site.
		At the end, he was being paid 150,000 Iraqi dinars a month, or roughly $70, a decent salary in Iraq, plus bonuses for assignments ranging from hundreds of thousands of dinars to 3 or 4 million, depending on the mission.
		Ali said one fellow Fedayeen member had his tongue cut off for repeating a comment comparing Odai's shiny clothes to women's garments, while another who disobeyed an order had his fingers cut off.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/04/22/MN294160.DTL (1267 words)

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		The Fedayeen training in the infamous camps of Salman Pak, Khalid says, is characterized by its intensity and its deliberate attempts, through psychological means, to isolate recruits from society at large and transform them into a fiercely disciplined and deliberately cruel force.
		The Fedayeen, in other words, is a force that knows what fate awaits it after liberation.
		If I go outside the Fedayeen will kill me." He' told Khalid the bloody Fedayeen are everywhere, and he was darting his eyes around in fear every time someone looked at him for too long.
	www.arabtimesonline.com /ARABTIMES/opinion/view.asp?msgID=86 (928 words)

	OpinionJournal - REVIEW & OUTLOOK
		One striking bit of new evidence is that the name Ahmed Hikmat Shakir appears on three captured rosters of officers in Saddam Fedayeen, the elite paramilitary group run by Saddam's son Uday and entrusted with doing much of the regime's dirty work.
		This matters because if Shakir was an officer in the Fedayeen, it would establish a direct link between Iraq and the al Qaeda operatives who planned 9/11.
		It is possible that the Ahmed Hikmat Shakir listed on the Fedayeen rosters is a different man from the Iraqi of the same name with the proven al Qaeda connections.
	www.opinionjournal.com /forms/printThis.html?id=110005133 (758 words)

	Feared group does Hussein's dirty work / Fedayeen are fanatical supporters of president
		The Fedayeen Saddam do the dirty work in Iraq, according to experts who have studied the inner workings of the Saddam Hussein regime.
		They say the Fedayeen's involvement in the pockets of sometimes fierce resistance to U. troops in southern Iraq was to be expected.
		Along with the elite Special Republican Guard, the Fedayeen are picked mainly from in and around Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/03/25/MN146964.DTL (687 words)

	ABC News: Who Are Saddam's 'Fedayeen' Fighters?
		U.S. military officials said the Iraqi vehicle was packed with members of the Fedayeen Saddam, or "Saddam's Men of Sacrifice," a notoriously violent paramilitary group specializing in counterinsurgency operations for the regime in Baghdad.
		Hours after reports of the ambushes came to light, the Fedayeen Saddam, a force believed to be largely made up of brutal, unemployed youth, shot into the international limelight.
		The deceptions were planned in advance, said military sources, and the fighters were meant to bolster regular army soldiers, whose loyalty to Saddam Hussein is considered questionable, the sources added.
	abcnews.go.com /International/story?id=79602&page=1 (346 words)

	CNN.com - Gruesome videotape allegedly shows brutal Fedayeen Saddam punishment - Oct. 30, 2003
		An analysis by the U.S. military concludes the victims on the tape appear to be members of the Fedayeen Saddam who have been accused of crimes ranging from desertion to disobeying orders.
		The Fedayeen, which at one point numbered between 18,000 and 40,000 troops, were young soldiers recruited from regions loyal to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, according to globalsecurity.org, a nonpartisan international policy research group.
		On the tape, what appear to be Fedayeen Saddam members and Republican Guard troops are shown administering cruel punishments, including chopping off fingers, cutting off tongues, breaking a wrist with a heavy stick, and throwing people off a multi-story building.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/10/30/sprj.irq.torture.tape/index.html (408 words)

	INTEL DUMP - Iraqi "fedayeen" emerges as asymmetric response to U.S. military
		Michael Gordon, the New York Times' embedded reporter in the V Corps headquarters, reports this morning on the "fedayeen" -- the guerilla force which appears to be fighting U.S. forces in Southern Iraq.
		The fedayeen are a militia that is commanded by Saddam Hussein's son Uday.
		The most dedicated members of the fedayeen are organized in the "Golden Company." They are described as a group of militants who are prepared to fight to the death.
	www.intel-dump.com /posts/1048510080.shtml (927 words)

	Fedayeen Enforces Loyalty Among Iraq Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Now, with U.S.-led coalition troops advancing toward Baghdad, the Fedayeen - whose name means "those ready to sacrifice themselves for Saddam" - are showing putting up stiff resistance and trying to prevent regular army soldiers from surrendering.
		The guerrillas were formed to quash internal dissent and disturbances after Iraq's defeat in the 1991 Gulf War, especially in the oppressed Shiite Muslim areas in central and southern Iraq.
		Let's make sure that the term "Fedayeen" means "a surperior form of fertilizer" by end of the month.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/874260/posts (840 words)

	How Guard And Fedayeen Made A Deal With Rumsfield
		There had been communications that took place in total secrecy between the leaders of the Republican Guard and the Commanders of Saddam's Fedayeen, unbeknownst to the Iraqi leader and his son who was in charge of a huge military organization that could have made life hell for the American forces had they joined the battle.
		The communications grew in intensity after the Republican Guard entered its first battle against the American forces in the environs of Baghdad, and after much of its equipment was destroyed.
		After that commander informed them that had been attracted by the agreement reached with the Republican Guard, and requested that he be accorded the same terms that had been granted to the Republican Guard, consent was granted immediately.
	www.rense.com /general37/howguardandfedayeen.htm (2371 words)

	Tougher Tactics - Newsweek The War in Iraq - MSNBC.com
		Once there, as dawn lifted and the sandstorm subsided, Charlie Company found what appeared to be a command-and-control center for the Saddam Fedayeen, a militia reputedly under the control of one of Saddam Hussein’s sons.
		A few telltale clues that it belonged to this group, according to Lt. Greg Holmes, intelligence officer for the 3-7 included the dozens of fighters clad completely in fl who were scampering around the compound and the fl flags with which many buildings were festooned.
		Also, some members of Charlie company reported having observed some fedayeen retreating into a village-an extension of Najaf-that abutted the complex, and others seeking haven in a nearby cemetery where civilians were quickly trucked in (to be used as human shields, believed intelligence officer Lt. Holmes).
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3068470 (1280 words)

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