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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 08:50 AM
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Pursuing Hussein, U.S. Captures 175 in Dozens of Raids
Time to start filling up all those prisons Hussein emptied out last October!

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/30/international/worldspecial/30IRAQ.html


Pursuing Hussein, U.S. Captures 175 in Dozens of Raids

By DEXTER FILKINS with RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

TIKRIT, Iraq, July 29 - American soldiers conducted dozens of raids and seized more than 175 suspected loyalists of Saddam Hussein today here in his hometown in what military leaders called an accelerating drive to flush him out of hiding.

As of this evening, the Americans had conducted 58 raids in the past 24 hours in the Tikrit region, double the pace of the day before, and military officials spoke with renewed confidence that they had picked up a fresh trail of Mr. Hussein's whereabouts, exactly one week after soldiers killed his sons Uday and Qusay.
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 12:39 PM
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1. What is a "loyalist"?
Political thought? If the person takes no action, is perceiving oneself as a "loyalist" a political thought or political opinion crime?
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montana_hazeleyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 02:29 PM
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2. Not far in the future
maybe I'll be picked up for thinking Bill Clinton did a pretty damn good job as president. A Clinton "loyalist". No telling what these run- a -way -train--wreck phycopaths will do if they keep getting more and more full of themselves and keep getting support from the "I don't care, they must be doing the right thing" group of pea-pod heads!
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rhino91063 Donating Member (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 03:36 PM
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3. What are these captured people being charged with?
Failure to show proper loyalty to their new king, king george the first?
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-30-03 04:41 PM
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4. And They Know These Men Are Loyalists Based On
what? More lies, while building more resistance to US presence.
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