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Chapter 33: Exit the Butcher of Baghdad


  • 1. “Iraq War Begins,” PBS NewsHour, March 20, 2003.

  • 2. “U.S. Launches Cruise Missiles at Saddam,” CNN, March 20, 2003.

  • 3Captured document dated March 11, 2003, “Military Command Memos Concerned with the Arabian Volunteers to the Iraqi Special Forces,” cited in Kevin M. Woods with Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership (Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Joint Forces Command, March 2006), p. 156.

  • 4Captured document dated March 11, 2003, “Military Command Memos Concerned with the Arabian Volunteers to the Iraqi Special Forces,” cited in Kevin M. Woods with Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership (Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Joint Forces Command, March 2006), p. 156.

  • 5Captured document dated March 27, 2003, “Memorandum to Director of the IIS, Subject: Hamas,” cited in Kevin M. Woods with Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership (Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Joint Forces Command, March 2006), pp. 132, 153.

  • 6Captured document dated April 2, 2003, “Written Summaries for the 37th Division 20 March–2 April 2003,” cited in Kevin M. Woods with Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership (Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Joint Forces Command, March 2006), pp. 131–32, 153.

  • 7Captured document dated April 4, 2003,“General Military Intelligence Directorate to the 8th Adjutant Confirming Saddam Hussein’s Order to Treat the Arab Fedayeen Volunteers the Same Way as Special Forces Troops in Terms of Their Salaries and Supplies,” cited in Kevin M. Woods with Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership (Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Joint Forces Command, March 2006), pp. 150, 156.

  • 8Ryan Chilcote, “Sandstorm Paralyzes U.S. Copters,” CNN, March 26, 2003.

  • 9Editorial, “Diminished Expectations in Iraq,” New York Times, March 25, 2003; Rick Atkinson and Thomas E. Ricks, “War’s Military, Political Goals Begin to Diverge,” Washington Post, March 30, 2003; Monica Davey, “For Some Uncertain About War, Anxiety Builds in First Week,” New York Times, March 27, 2003.

  • 10Department of Defense news transcript, “Deputy Assistant Secretary Whitman Interview with Egyptian TV,” April 14, 2003.

  • 11. “Iraq: Journalists in Danger,” Committee to Protect Journalists, updates concluded in October 2009.

  • 12Eason Jordan, “The News We Kept to Ourselves,” New York Times, April 11, 2003.

  • 13. Dave Moniz, John Diamond, and David J. Lynch, “A Virtual Certainty: Baghdad Falls. What’s Uncertain: Cost of Battle,” USA Today, April 3, 2003.

  • 14Kevin M. Woods with Michael R. Pease, Mark E. Stout, Williamson Murray, and James G. Lacey, Iraqi Perspectives Project: A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership (Joint Center for Operational Analysis, U.S. Joint Forces Command, March 2006), pp. 29–30.

  • 15“The Collected Quotations of ‘Baghdad Bob,’ Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf: The Iraqi Minister of DisInformation,” posted by the Center for Individual Freedom, April 10, 2003.

  • 16Gayle MacDonald, “Take My Country…Please! His Barefaced Lies and Poker-Faced Bravado Have Made Comical Ali a Pop-Culture Hit,” The Globe and Mail, May 6, 2003.

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