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Tuesday, April 01, 2003

The art of terrorism. I wrote previously (and others have mentioned it as well) about how Saddam is taking a page from the Palestinian playbook: putting unarmed women and children out front and then milking the inevitable casualties for PR. Trent Telenko discusses how Saddam is also working from the Stalinist playbook - specifically the use of prisoners as cannon fodder. (Cross-posted on Command Post)