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Article: A Free-for-All; The destitute southern city of Nasiriya has become an unruly laboratory for democracy.(Cover Story)
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- Newsweek International
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- March 1, 2004
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Byline: Joshua Hammer
Salman Shareef Duaffar is proud of his former title as the most wanted man in Iraq. Seven years ago, Duaffar and three accomplices carried out the most brazen assault ever against the despotic regime of Saddam Hussein, shooting his reviled son Uday 17 times as Uday cruised an upscale Baghdad neighborhood in his red Porsche. The attack, which left Uday paralyzed and reportedly impotent, turned the anonymous guerrillas into folk heroes. Saddam's henchmen killed two members of the cell, and though Duaffar escaped to Iran, his father and seven brothers were executed. The guerrilla leader sat out the last years of the dictatorship in the holy ...
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Article: Coalition forces meet fierce resistance in Nasiriya in ...
Xinhua News Agency;
March 25, 2003 ;
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... ... Coalition forces meet fierce resistance in Nasiriya in south Iraq BAGHDAD, March 25 ... Tuesday in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya, Al-Jazeera Satellite TV reported. The invading forces pounded Nasiriya with artillery fire and missiles in ...
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