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 | | Qasim escaped, and so did Saddam, limping off to Cairo, Egypt, where — even after all those blunders — the CIA propped him up in a safe house and kept his pockets lined with Yankee green while continuing his training in terrorism |
 | | In 1963, after Qasim was knocked off in a second CIA fl op, Saddam scurried home to slay his way up the power ladder and eventually become head of the dreaded al-Jihaz a-Khas, the feared intelligence apparatus of the Ba’ath party. |
 | | From there, with a little more help from his CIA pals, he continued to plot, plunder and massacre his way to the head-beast slot, where we anointed him our newest very best friend. |
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