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 | | I mean this is the kind of apparatus that kept Saddam Hussein in power for all those years, eyes and ears, literally in every nook and cranny of this very, large and opened spaced country. |
 | | This is where we all expected there to be a possible last stand, the very bastion of Saddam Hussein's support in his tribal areas, the heartland of his paid for support in terms of tribal allegiance over his decades of rule. |
 | | One local elements, perhaps extremists, Saddam Fedayeen, certainly Baath Party officials harassing us, but also a possibility of friendly fire; coalition aircraft active during that night, active early this morning, and we were concerned we would be misidentified as a hostile, with a seven car convoy operating in Tikrit. |
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