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Middle East Review of International Affairs
The Making of Saddam's Executioners: A Manual of Oppression by Procedures
by Robert G. Rabil
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Abstract
This article, based on official Iraqi documents,(1) examines the numerous procedures of oppression used by the Ba’thi regime of Saddam Hussein to rule Iraq. Planned by the regime’s higher echelons and coordinated among state and party institutions, these procedures reveal how the regime sought to intimidate some citizens while turning others into accomplices.
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Endnotes
Note *: Dr. Rabil served with Red Cross in Lebanon, taught at Suffolk University and currently is the project manager of Iraq Research and Documentation Project at the Iraq Foundation, Washington, DC. He is the author of Embattled Neighbors: Lebanon, Syria, Israel (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003). The author extends his thanks to IRDP research team. Back