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	Sadr City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After suffering a variety of ill effects under the government of Saddam Hussein (a Sunni), Shi'as in the district claimed a degree of autonomy from the rest of Iraq after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, with their own police force, clinics, and food distribution.
		The landmark of Sadr City is undoubtedly the large municipal building; which was reportedly ordered constructed for Saddam Hussein, who gave a single speech from its balcony and never returned to either the building or the city again.
		Saddam City was also the name given by the Iraqi government to Kuwait City during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait in 1990-1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saddam_City (438 words)

	Kuwait City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kuwait City's trade and transportation needs are served by Kuwait International Airport, Mina Al-Shuwaik (Shuwaik Port) and 50 kilometers to the south by the port of Mina al-Ahmadi (Ahmadi Port) on the Persian Gulf coast.
		The city was invaded and seized by Iraqi forces in the 1991 Gulf War.
		Under Iraqi occupation it was renamed Saddam City in honor of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuwait_City (443 words)

	James Robbins on Iraq on National Review Online
		Several city fights, such as in Mogadishu in 1993, and in Grozny in 1994, 1996, and 2000, dramatized the fact that it was a particularly nasty form of warfare in which heavy casualties were practically unavoidable.
		City fighting minimizes or negates many of the advantages of airpower and mechanized warfare that are the hallmark of U.S. military operations.
		Saddam can be counted on to shift his positions boldly and shamelessly in the weeks and months ahead, seeking temporary advantage whenever the timing seems propitious, and shifting away as circumstances change.
	www.nationalreview.com /robbins/robbins081402.asp (1457 words)

	District in Baghdad claims autonomy - 04/15/03
		Saddam City's autonomy, won in the power vacuum left by the fall of Iraq's government, doesn't bode well for the future of this heterogeneous nation after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, whose rule held the disparate religious and ethnic groups together.
		In Saddam City, a young cleric ominously hinted Monday that handing back authority over the densely populated neighborhood to a central government may be less than certain.
		Everything in Saddam City suggests power is firmly in the hands of the clerics and that the area's mosques are functioning as the centers of power.
	www.detnews.com /2003/nation/0304/15/a04-137809.htm (822 words)

	Baghdad Surrendered. WHY? - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As for parts of the city where life is better, food stores and warehouses are plundered most of all; the plunderers there are not whoever happens to be in the area, but armed criminals who grew bolder in conditions of anarchy.
		Saddam Hussein took care of for the well-being of the country as a whole, but, like any authoritarian ruler, he cared about the welfare of each member of society only slightly.
		Under the conditions of the 12-year economic blockade introduced after Saddam's incursion in Kuwait, the living standards of Iraqis were on the decline, and this was the fault of the dictator himself.
	english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=9545 (1120 words)

	Sadr City -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sadr City (formerly known as Saddam City and Al Thawra) is a vast low-income neighbourhood in northeastern (Capital and largest city of Iraq; located on the Tigris River) Baghdad, home to some two million (One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran) Shi'a Muslims.
		The city is apparently run by local Shi'a clerics like (additional info and facts about Muqtada al-Sadr) Muqtada al-Sadr, who claim to take orders from upper-level Shi'a clerics in (additional info and facts about Najaf) Najaf.
		Saddam City was also the name given by the Iraqi government to (A seaport on the Persian Gulf and capital of Kuwait) Kuwait City during the Iraqi occupation of (An Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf; a major source of petroleum) Kuwait in 1990-1991.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/sadr_city.htm (236 words)

	Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq
		Once known as Saddam City, then as Al Thawra, Sadr City is named for the Imam Mohammed Sadr, an Iraqi religious leader killed by Saddam Hussein.
		Sadr City, built by Saddam Hussein, was the scene of numerous confrontations between coalition forces and residents in 2003.
		According to reports from Iraqi guards and unit translators, Saddam ordered that the Sadr City municipal building be constructed, gave one speech from the balcony of the new building and then never set foot in that low-income district again.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/sadr-city-imagery.htm (518 words)

	Daily Herald: War in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Saddam City, home to an estimated 2 million people, suffered years of repression and violence from the deposed president's security forces.
		And with its history of Shiite oppression, Saddam City was a center of that jubilation.
		Before Saddam named the district after himself in the '80s, Saddam City was called al-Thawra, or "revolution." Residents now say it should be renamed Madinat al-Sadr - or city of al-Sadr - to honor Mohamed Sadeq al-Sadr, a respected Shiite cleric killed with his two sons in 1999.
	www.dailyherald.com /special/iraq/wwi_paststory.asp?intID=37722156 (746 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		Saddam City is a poor, very populous neighborhood in Baghdad.
		Even Fedayeen Saddam, the most loyal to the regime, with their fl uniforms, they got rid of their uniforms, out of the street and it seems that they are blending within the civilian neighborhood and community.
		Saddam Hussein and his inner circle, of course, are Sunni Muslims and there's not a great deal of love, at least in Iraq, between the Shia and the Sunni populations.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0304/09/lad.05.html (5554 words)

	GN Online: Shiites focus on survival, not revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Saddam City, a miserable place at once sprawling and claustrophobic, is home to most of Baghdad's Shiites, who have seethed for decades under repression.
		To what degree the quest for survival overrides other sentiments in places such as Saddam City is difficult to gauge, particularly for journalists required to conduct interviews in the presence of a government escort.
		In Saddam City, silence is often the language of aspirations.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=82672 (1576 words)

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		But the enduring symbol of the day was surely the toppling of the towering Saddam statue, a gesture that recalled the frenzied euphoria that swept Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union more than a decade ago.
		Saddam's statue in al-Firdos (Paradise) Square was in the same Soviet style, depicting the Iraqi president standing tall in a civilian suit, right arm raised in a wave to his people.
		But it was in Tikrit that U.S. forces were concentrating their airpower, particularly since reinforcements have moved in and around the city to bolster units in what may be the last Iraqi stand.
	www.web-bangladesh.com /news/attack.htm (1954 words)

	Saddam Hussein - War - Iraq - Worldpress.org
		Even though this part of the city was spared any attacks during the Gulf War, the deterioration of conditions in Iraq has affected the million inhabitants of Saddam City all the more.
		As a result, each month the people of Saddam City go to their corner shops to pick up their monthly food rations: 1.25 kilograms of rice, a half kilo of sugar, 100 grams of tea, and a piece of soap.
		In Muhammad’s part of Saddam City, the residents are counting on the U.N. Soon, the puddles of sewage will disappear into a new sewer system, built as a U.N. model project.
	www.worldpress.org /Europe/832.cfm (1144 words)

	Middle East Online
		Home to two million Shiites who were held down by Saddam Hussein's regime, the sprawling Sadr City district is undergoing a political and social transformation that wants nothing to do with the US occupation presence.
		Under the old regime Sadr City was officially known as Saddam City, a deliberate affront by the former strongman's Sunni Muslim elite, which kept a tight and often brutal grip on the nation's Shiite majority.
		But with Saddam's ouster, the Shiites have re-emerged from the shadows to seize this major sector of Baghdad, which was immediately renamed after Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Sadr, a renowned cleric believed to have been assassinated by the regime in 1999.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english?id=5867 (754 words)

	Notes from Iraq: Welcome to al-Sadr City!
		Under the old regime, "Saddam City," the infamous Shi'a ghetto that suffered brutal repression and massacres, was a place only whispered about.
		Now they are home again, and al-Sadr City is struggling to get back on its feet in the face of liberties unimaginable under the rule of Saddam Hussein.
		He blames Saddam and his regime for neglecting to invest in the development of the district.
	www.nationalcatholicreporter.org /iraq/in051203.htm (713 words)

	Iraqis Want Saddam's Old US Friends on Trial
		An Iraqi man shouts at a demonstration by protesters demanding that the status of toppled leader Saddam Hussein be changed to that of a war criminal, allowing his execution, in central Baghdad January 20, 2004.
		"Saddam was a top graduate of the American school of politics," said Assad al-Saadi, standing with friends in the slum of Sadr city, formerly called Saddam City, a Shi'ite Muslim area oppressed by Saddam's security agents.
		Saddam was captured on December 13 hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0120-07.htm (591 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian Weekly \| Goodbye to Saddam City
		In living rooms all over the city, intellectuals are plotting the launch of their own parties.
		Amid the comforts of these villas, the mention of Saddam City induces a shudder because of its crushing poverty and for what that might provoke among the million Shias who live there.
		The contours of the new Iraq are vague, except in Saddam City - already renamed Sadr City, in honour of a Shia spiritual leader assassinated by the regime.
	www.guardian.co.uk /guardianweekly/story/0,12674,946576,00.html (1542 words)

	Saddam is airbrushed out by the city that bore his name - Robert Fisk: 14th April, 2003
		So now this city of Shia Muslim hovels, of open sewers and burning rubbish, of piled-up loot – buses seem to be a speciality – this centre of opposition to the Baathist regime bears the murdered Imam's name and the hopes of all that he aspired to, not least an Islamic Republic.
		Across Sadr City – as it must now be called – there are checkpoints and barrages and armed young men with thin beards.
		Just ask any man where Saddam's main underground torture centre was and he will tell you it was the complex at Baladiat or the Istiqbal centre beside Aqadmia.
	www.robert-fisk.com /articles228.htm (859 words)

	Inside Saddam City-Febraury 17, 2003
		But in Saddam City, the only group of soldiers spotted during a two-hour tour was a ragged-looking section manning a light machine gun mounted on a battered Toyota pickup truck.
		While it is widely recognized the Shiite majority has little love for Saddam’s predominantly Sunni Muslim Baath party, their loyalty to Iraq remains a key factor in the overall equation.
		When he rose to power, Saddam Hussein gave his name to the ghetto, and through two decades of war and 12 years of economic sanctions, the population of Saddam City has multiplied sixfold.
	www.espritdecorps.ca /newpage13.htm (854 words)

	CNN.com - Rula Amin: Revenge a concern now - Apr. 9, 2003
		Revelers in Saddam City in eastern Baghdad took to the streets Wednesday -- just days ago under the grip of Saddam Hussein's regime -- looting government buildings and cheering American forces.
		Residents of Saddam City have been waiting for this moment, but I don't know how much faith they had that it would come.
		Saddam City is a very large, poor, overpopulated neighborhood of mostly Shiite Iraqis.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/04/09/otsc.irq.amin (577 words)

	Kevin Sites Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Saddam's Ministry of Information, which oversaw the work of writers and artists during the regime, provided a list to each Iraqi newspaper of how to portray Saddam Hussein (as a symbolic Falcon), the Iraqi flag (always as a top banner,) the military (strong and heroic).
		After Saddam's fall it was renamed again, now Sader City, after a Shiite Imam, killed by the regime.
		They were Wisam says, pictures of the collective Iraqi soul; intelligent, innovative, proud people--made to live the daily lies of Saddam's thuggish, egocentric rule--and as a result their inner turmoil was represented by subtle physical deformity, crossed eyes, misshapen heads and, without exception, rendered in carnival midway colors.
	www.kevinsites.net /2004_02_01_archive.html (1680 words)

	USATODAY.com - If Shiites oppose Saddam, they don't do it openly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		SADDAM CITY, Iraq — If there is opposition to Saddam Hussein anywhere in Iraq, it would be expected here in this mostly Shiite Muslim slum in eastern Baghdad.
		Saddam is portrayed in Karbala in ways that would appeal to fundamentalist Shiites.
		Earlier this year, Saddam donated about 100 pounds of gold and 300 pounds of silver to Karbala to repair the minarets of the two holy shrines, according to the city's information officer, Ahmad Yassin Ramadan.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002-10-23-shiites_x.htm (886 words)

	Saddam’s cult lives on in Tikrit - World News - MSNBC.com
		Perched on the Tigris River, Saddam’s imposing limestone palace was empty on Sunday.
		The city then went quiet, and its residents began to emerge from their homes.
		There was no cheering and no one scaling monuments to Saddam with their fists raised in the air — scenes played out in other Iraqi cities as they fell from Saddam’s grasp.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3070364 (785 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder in the Oklahoma City bombing and executed in June 2001; Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy and manslaughter, and faces a further trial on murder charges.
		In her book, "The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks," Laurie Mylroie says that the bomb was designed to topple the North Tower into the South Tower and envelop the scene in a cloud of cyanide gas.
		The principal reason for suspecting an Iraqi role in the Sept. 11 attacks is of course the much-discussed report of a meeting in Prague on April 8, 2001, between apparent hijacking leader Mohamed Atta and Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an Iraqi diplomat expelled as a spy shortly thereafter.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=110002217 (2827 words)

	Sadr City [Saddam City / Al Thawra]
		It is also a haven for criminals released from Iraqi prisons by Saddam shortly before the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
		The cigarette factory serves as the headquarters for the the Army's 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment.
		The squadron is trying to secure Sadr City, an area measuring 3-by-4 1/3 miles, with 800 troops supported by a 160-soldier military police company.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/iraq/sadr-city.htm (862 words)

	Cover story: Postwar contradictions on the streets of Baghdad
		Under Saddam Hussein, it was not uncommon to hear -- in hushed broadcasts from friends and colleagues -- of massacres and opposition in what was then called, cynically, Saddam City.
		Saddam Hussein outlawed the party -- which has deep roots in the country -- for a quarter of a century.
		Communist sympathizers in northern Iraq were targeted in Saddam Hussein’s “Anfal” campaign of the 1980s, largely understood as an ethnic cleansing campaign that included the notorious chemical weapons attacks on Kurdish villages.
	natcath.org /NCR_Online/archives2/2003b/062003/062003a.php (3724 words)

	Boston.com / War in Iraq
		He said the regime was losing control in a growing number of areas around the country, and that today, "The capital city is one of those areas." "We are at a degree of a tipping point," he said.
		Residents of Saddam City, a poor Baghdad neighborhood populated by members of Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'a majority, celebrated in the streets and looted some areas this morning, US officials said, while US Marines moved into a nearby area.
		The coalition does not control the Mansour neighborhood where a US warplane bombed a building where Saddam Hussein and his sons were believed to be meeting, and has not been able to determine who was killed in that attack.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/09/baghdad_globe_040903.htm (2059 words)

	Between Impediment and Advantage - Saddam's Iraq: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		Saddam and the Kurds after the Gulf War
		Saddam's power base: the family-tribe-state symbiosis and how it can explain his survival
		City quarters with a large Sunni Arab population and well-established Shi'i old-time Baghdadis; all are carefully vetted
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/early/baram/barammap.html (306 words)

	Anger, Disbelief Surfaces Over Saddam Arrest, by Ferry Biedermann
		The most vocal demonstrators have covered their faces with Arab headscarves in the style of the Fedayeen fighters said to be responsible for many attacks on U.S. troops and their allies in Iraq.
		In the poor and sprawling Shia neighbourhood of Baghdad that used to be called Saddam City, and was renamed Sadr City after a venerated Shia cleric, attitudes contrast sharply with those in Adamiyeh.
		The population of Sadr City heaved a sigh of relief after the arrest, the Sheikh says.
	www.antiwar.com /ips/biedermann1.html (772 words)

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