Fedayeen Saddam

DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: I suppose on reflection, the thing that probably surprised me the most is the ability that the so-called Fedayeen Saddam people had to terrorize and frighten the rest of the Iraqi people and cause them to not come over to the other side.

CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2003 2003

BLITZER: Finally, Christiane, before I let you go, the whole issue of the irregulars, the paramilitaries, the so-called "Fedayeen Saddam," do you still see an extensive presence of these young men carrying Kalashnikovs, AK-47s roaming around Baghdad?

CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2003 2003

Our troops engaged in pitched battles with the Fedayeen Saddam -- death squads acting on the orders of Saddam Hussein that obeyed neither the conventions of war nor the dictates of conscience.

Archive 2008-03-01 News from Mad Plato 2008

Our troops engaged in pitched battles with the Fedayeen Saddam -- death squads acting on the orders of Saddam Hussein that obeyed neither the conventions of war nor the dictates of conscience.

READING BETWEEN THE LIVES News from Mad Plato 2008

Our troops engaged in pitched battles with the Fedayeen Saddam -- death squads acting on the orders of Saddam Hussein that obeyed neither the conventions of war nor the dictates of conscience.

Bush Delivers Speech 2008

For 20 years, such "support" included using Fedayeen Saddam training camps to school terrorists, especially Palestinians but also non-Iraqis "directly associated" with al Qaeda, continuing up to the fall of Baghdad.

Saddam's Terror Links 2008

During this second chapter of the resistance formations from the civil organizations of the party, Fedayeen Saddam and volunteers took part in carrying our "martyrdom operations."

Five Years on, Saddam's Successor Resurfaces Heading Iraq Resistance, Al-Baath 2008

Our troops engaged in pitched battles with Fedayeen Saddam, death squads acting on the orders of Saddam Hussein that obeyed neither the conventions of war, nor the dictates of conscience.

CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2008 2008

But if he wants numbers, the Fedayeen Saddam organized by his sons has more than 15,000 men recruited from trusted tribes, and the Jaysh al-Shaabi Popular Army, a Baath party militia, has at least 150,000 men and women in Baghdad alone.

His End Must Come Quickly 2007

Just as disconcerting, says one translator, it scared the hell out of him when he recently discovered that a close friend, who before the U.S. invasion of Iraq had served in the Fedayeen Saddam, a deadly paramilitary group of Saddam loyalists thought to be the backbone of the insurgency, was now working as a translator for Titan.

THE NEWS BLOG 2005