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	Asia Times
		Republican Guard commanders received a lot of cash, a "secure" relocation outside of Iraq, and crucially for those not considered war criminals, the promise of a new job in post-Saddam Iraq.
		Republican Guard commanders told the rank-and-file that the resistance would be secret and long-term, according to Saddam and Qusay's long-elaborated scenario of a guerrilla war.
		The Republican Guard commanders were about to be airlifted out of Iraq, and their soldiers had orders to demobilize and melt into the civilian population.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/ED25Ak04.html (1884 words)

	Iraqi Republican Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iraqi Republican Guard (Arabic: الحرس العراقي الجمهوري) (RG) was the core of the Iraqi military.
		In 2002, it was reported that the Republican Guard and the Fedayeen Saddam were both training in urban street fighting and in guerrilla warfare.
		It is largely believed that some of the former Republican Guard forces loyal to Saddam Hussein are still fighting on the ground as guerrilla insurgents after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iraqi_Republican_Guard (371 words)

	French Republican Guard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The French Republican Guard (French: Garde républicaine) is the ceremonial unit of the Gendarmerie Nationale of France.
		Guarding important public buildings in Paris such as the Élysée Palace, the residence of the prime minister Hôtel Matignon, the Senate, the National Assembly, the Hall of Justice, and keeping public order in Paris.
		The Republican Guard mans the honour guards welcoming foreign heads of state or government; here, president Jacques Chirac welcomes then king of Cambodia]] Norodom Sihanouk to the Élysée Palace.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_Republican_Guard (313 words)

	How Guard And Fedayeen Made A Deal With Rumsfield
		As a guarantee of this (which the commanders of the Republican Guard did not completely trust), the United States disclosed some of its agents whom it had planted among the "human shields" who were guiding the American military to positions to be bombed and where President Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi leadership could be found.
		Orders should be issued to the commanders of the Second Echelon of the Republican Guard not to resist and to lay down their weapons, together with promises of their safety, and that of their families, and they would be transported to secure locations.
		The final task of the Republican Guard Commanders gathered at the airport was to give the important information about the location of the Iraqi president and his leadership in what was to be their last meeting in al-Mansour.
	www.rense.com /general37/howguardandfedayeen.htm (2371 words)

	portland imc - 2003.04.25 - Saddam Hussein Alive And Waiting With Republican Guards
		ISTANBUL: Saddam Hussein is alive and his Republican Guards are "lying in wait" and preparing suicide attacks, according to two purported Republican Guards interviewed by Turkish television and print media.
		They said not only is Saddam Hussein alive but also that his Republican Guard is largely intact, in hiding among the Iraqi population, and waiting for "Saddam's signal" to begin an attack on the foreign soldiers occupying Iraq.
		The two men asserted that they were still in contact with the rest of the Republican Guards, and that the Guards would reunite within 15 days after U.S. soldiers leave Baghdad.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2003/04/62187.shtml (525 words)

	CNS - The Republican Guard [Al-Haris Al-Jamhuri]
		The Republican Guard expanded rapidly during the Iran-Iraq War, although it was created to serve as a praetorian guard, to provide protection for all presidential sites, including offices and personal residences, as well as escorting Saddam when he is traveling within Iraq.
		The Republican Guard is used as a screen between the army and Baghdad, to prevent any coup attempts.
		The surviving Republican Guard elements retreated to the environs of Baghdad and then took part in suppressing an armed Shi'a and Kurdish insurgency from March to April 1991.
	cns.miis.edu /research/iraq/rguard.htm (962 words)

	USATODAY.com - Republican Guard gets last chance against U.S. forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Commanded by Saddam's younger son, Qusay, the Republican Guard troops are drawn mostly from Iraq's minority Sunni population, Saddam's branch of the Muslim faith.
		Republican Guard members receive higher pay than their regular army counterparts, along with privileges and perks such as houses, cars and expensive gifts to maintain their loyalty.
		It was the Republican Guard that spearheaded the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and that put up the stiffest resistance in a losing cause against the U.S.-led coalition in the resulting war.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2003-03-27-republican-guard-cover_x.htm (2019 words)

	Republican Guards in Front of the Palais de Justice (Getty Museum)
		Republican Guards in Front of the Palais de Justice (Getty Museum)
		Lined up along the boulevard du Palais, the guards have assembled in front of the Palais de Justice, under the oldest clock in the city.
		Soon after this picture was taken, the beverage was outlawed in France because a chemical in one of its ingredients caused convulsions, hallucinations, mental deterioration, and psychoses.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=70174 (226 words)

	Saddam Fortifies Baghdad
		An official in the Iraqi National Congress main opposition group, which claims to have operatives in Iraq, told Reuters 60,000 Republican Guards troops have dug in 19 miles around the Iraqi capital, focusing on entrances facing the Jordanian border and Kurdish controlled areas.
		President Abdel Salam Aref set up the Republican Guards after he seized power in 1963 and staffed it largely from his al-Jumayla tribe to be the elite unit of the regime.
		Saddam further developed the Republican Guards into a Praetorian corps after the Baath party took government in 1968, giving the brigades names from Mesopotamian history, such as Hammurabi, the king who promulgated the first known legal code and Nabonassar, a conqueror of Palestine.
	www.rense.com /general29/saddamfortifiesbaghdad.htm (449 words)

	The Medium Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Republican Guards fanatical support of Bush, coupled with their sociopath torture and guerilla tactics, helped Bush take several battleground states in the 2000 election.
		Several Democratic campaign workers had complained about the Republican Guards role in the last general election, with one Gore For President aide having claimed that she was kept in a Republican Guard rape room and tortured with a car battery and a hose throughout election night in Illinois.
		If this really is the end of the Republican Guards affiliation with the Republican party, it would leave Starbucks and IBM as the only elite, well trained blood thirsty ruthless squads of fighters prepared to help the GOP in next years battleground elections.
	www.themedium.net /xclusive/repguard.html (251 words)

	SCG \| International Business Risk Consultancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Republican Guards use various patterns, from French four-color desert, to tropical, to European disruptive pattern material (DPM) — not so much for their camouflage effectiveness but for their quality.
		It is also very common, even in Republican Guards units, to mix shirts, jackets, and trou-sers of different camouflage patterns, or olive green/light brown garments with camouflage.
		Although some sources report this as a Republican Guard insiginia, it is in fact obviously simply the national insignia.
	www.scgonline.net /DI/WIB/No12/IraqInsigNo12.htm (732 words)

	Saddam's hugely overrated Republican Guard. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine
		The plan in Desert Storm was for the Marines to mount a direct assault on Iraq's defensive positions and essentially hold the Republican Guards in place, while the Army swung around from the west and surrounded the guards, crushing them and blocking a retreat.
		The point is that the Republican Guards are elite troops compared with the rest of the Iraqi army, but they wouldn't score well in a worldwide competition.
		The current head-on tank battles against the Republican Guard, the subject of much dread anticipation before the war, may turn out to be the easiest phase of all.
	www.slate.com /id/2081055 (1727 words)

	The Defense of Baghdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Based on reports from embedded journalists, counterattacks by Republican Guard units against Allied forces approaching Baghdad were scattered and weak, and the remnants of the Guard that retreated back into Baghad appear to be disorganized and at reduced strength.
		The 15,000 to 20,000 Special Republican Guard troops expected to be in Baghdad do not have even the Guard's level of training in conventional military operations.
		During the Iran-Iraq War, elements of the Guard did participate in the bloody fighting for Khorramshar in 1980, but 23 years later there are likely to be few veterans of that battle left in its ranks.
	www.brookings.edu /views/op-ed/pollack/20030404.htm (1085 words)

	The Republican Guard -- 03/27/2003
		The Republican Guard is used as a screen between the army and Baghdad, to deflect any mutinous advance on Saddam's center of power.
		The Republican Guard is also a deterrent force in or near areas of dissent, like in the Shiite south and the Kurdish north.
		In the summer of 2001, it was estimated to have a strength of 18,000 to 20,000, rising to 26,000 in 2002.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPentagon.asp?Page=\Pentagon\archive\200303\PEN20030327a.html (915 words)

	Daily Kos: Where is the Iraqi Army?
		As long as the Republican Guards are compelled to fight in a fairly conventional style, they are doomed—even when faced with lighter-than-desired U.S. forces.
		Basically, if the Republican Guards remain dug in, they will be outmaneuvered; if they venture out to fight, they will be outgunned; whatever they do, they will be bombed and strafed from the air.
		The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that elements from several Republican Guard divisions, which had been deployed north of Baghdad, have moved to the south—in some cases abandoning their armored vehicles and, like the Fedayeen guerrillas, firing machine guns and grenades from the back of pickup trucks.
	www.dailykos.net /archives/002241.html (800 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
		That is the jargon for a conventional war that is predicted to be one-sided.
		The defences of the Republican Guards and the Special Republican Guards would be mostly in and around towns and cities and population centres.
		Decades of fighting war or coping with a failing economy and a sanctions regime have degraded the Iraqi military machine so much that all divisions apart from the Republican Guards are not expected to be more than 50 per cent fighting fit.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030320/asp/nation/story_1784102.asp (1030 words)

	: Rumsfeld's Big Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Republican Guard commanders that the assurances were reliable.
		Republican Guard to Basra where they were met by British forces.
		Republican Guard Commanders in their first meeting with the Human Shields.
	colorado.indymedia.org /newswire/display/5751/index.php (2158 words)

	Saddam's Republican Guards \| TIME
		Six of the Guard's nine core divisions are spread in an arc along Kuwait's northern border with Iraq, while one remains in Baghdad to protect Saddam's Baathist government.
		Guard troops sustained heavy losses in 1986-87, but then became national heroes in 1988, when they penetrated a curtain of shell fire and were instrumental in the recapture from Iran of the Fao peninsula, the engagement that broke the back of the Iranian war effort and persuaded the Ayatullah's men to sue for peace.
		The Guards are among the "most formidable fighting men in the Third World," according to Richard Jupa, co-author of an upcoming article on the Guards for Army magazine.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,972265,00.html?iid=chix-sphere (652 words)

	[A-List] treason of iraqi generals
		American forces occupied these tunnels, unknown to any but the first echelon of the Republican Guard.Ê On the second day after the occupation of the airport Muhammad Sa`id as-Sahhaf assured the world that Saddam International Airport was still in the hands of the Iraqi forces.
		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.Ê The American military aircraft took off from Saddam International airport at 8:00 p.m.
		This is the secret of how they kept Saddam Hussein in the dark about their contacts.Ê The final task of the Republican Guard Commanders gathered at the airport was to give the important information about the location of the Iraqi president and his leadership in what was to be their last meeting in al-Mansour.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-April/043606.html (1650 words)

	Saddam Counts on His Republican Guards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But while the Republican Guard gets the best Iraq has, it's believed to be the best of very little.
		Experts say new Republican Guard recruits receive a monthly salary of about $40, compared to $5 for a newly appointed Iraqi civil servant with a college degree.
		American tanks overpowered the Republican Guard troops, who were armed with decaying T-72 and T-62 Russian tanks.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/876461/posts (605 words)

	Asia Times
		Of the six Republican Guard divisions, three of them, armored and with around 12,000 soldiers each, are firmly entrenched in Baghdad's inner defensive ring.
		Behind the Republican Guards there are still four brigades of the Special Republican Guards, with at least 10,000 and as many as 25,000 soldiers either placed inside Baghdad or back in Tikrit, Saddam's birthplace 160 kilometers to the north.
		This is of course Saddam's Praetorian guard, coming overwhelmingly from the Albu Nasr tribe in Tikrit, from Baiji and from villages near Baghdad and west of Mosul.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EC27Ak05.html (1276 words)

	JS Online: U.S. begins assault on Republican Guards
		The aim was to soften up the Medina division, one of the three Republican Guard divisions that guard the approaches to Baghdad.
		Before these latest attacks, the three Republican Guard divisions surrounding the capital were close to full strength.
		The command and control of the Special Republican Guard, who are charged with defending the interior of the capital, is still intact, according to U.S. military officials.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=128009&format=print (688 words)

	Saddam's hugely overrated Republican Guard. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The point is that the Republican Guards are elite troops compared with the rest of the Iraqi army, but they wouldn't score well in a worldwide competition.
		The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that elements from several Republican Guard divisions, which had been deployed north of Baghdad, have moved to the south—in some cases abandoning their armored vehicles and, like the Fedayeen guerrillas, firing machine guns and grenades from the back of pickup trucks.
		The current head-on tank battles against the Republican Guard, the subject of much dread anticipation before the war, may turn out to be the easiest phase of all.
	slate.msn.com /id/2081055 (1357 words)

	MEMRI TV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This was at the Republican Guards headquarters, in the presence of the commander of the Republican Guards, and the commanders of the six corps we had then.
		He asked us: "What military capabilities are available to the Republican Guards to carry out this mission?" I was the first commander to talk...
		I met there with the supervisor of the Republican Guards, with the defense minister, the chief-of-staff of the Al-Quds Army, General Iyad Al-Rawi, [chief-of-staff of the Republican Guards] General Seif, chief-of-staff of the army General Ibrahim, and the commander of the 1st corps of the Republican Guards, General Majid.
	memritv.org /Transcript.asp?P1=1410 (1701 words)

	Introduction
		Although not used in the September 1980 invasion of Iran, the Republican Guard was committed to the bloody battle for Khorramshahr in October and thereafter saw intermittent action as a "fire brigade" along the southern front.
		By 1986, the Republican Guards had expanded to five brigades, the bulk of which were committed to an ill-fated counterattack on the Al-Faw peninsula.
		Guard units were believed to have been involved in the suppression of dissent before the Gulf War, and surviving elements were reported to have participated in the suppression of the Shia and Kurdish revolts after the war.
	www.fas.org /man/eprint/andrews.htm (20032 words)

	How do you define a republican? - Blurtit
		The power is given to the citizens of the country to vote for the officers and representatives of the country.
		Republican is a type of political thought that states that its form of government is represented popularly amongst its people and one that enjoys popular consent.
		Oddly enough Saddam also claimed to be a Republican and his elite units were known as the Republican Guards.
	www.blurtit.com /q887835.html (363 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : International
		But with US advance units almost at the gates of the Iraqi capital, the status of the Republican Guard may prove critical.
		The advance of the past two days went so quickly, that some have questioned whether the Republican Guard withdrew deliberately to lure the Americans into a trap.
		But military experts say they believe the Republican Guard, a 70,000-strong elite force reputed to be fiercely nationalist, may well have been defeated.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030404/asp/foreign/story_1839879.asp (573 words)

	Analysis: Urban warfare to get new look
		There will be few opportunities for Special Republican Guards or other last-ditch supporters of Saddam Hussein to pick apart U.S. forces with automatic weapons or rocket-propelled grenades from doorways or rooftops, as Somali fighters did in Mogadishu.
		As many as 20,000 Special Republican Guards, as well as other forces, might remain prepared to fight in Baghdad.
		Vincent Brooks of Central Command said the Republican Guard units in the vicinity of Baghdad have dispersed, but he couldn't say how many soldiers had deserted and how many might have repositioned themselves in smaller groups to defend the city.
	www.post-gazette.com /world/20030405baghdadwarW2.asp (859 words)

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