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Article: Inside the mind of Saddam Hussein
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- Jerusalem Post
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- September 6, 1996
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Steve Rodan
Jerusalem Post
09-06-1996
SAY what you will but don't call Saddam Hussein stupid.
The Iraqi ruler might have sustained the damage of dozens of US cruise missiles as well as lost his chance to sell $2 billion of oil over the next six months. But he might just have saved his regime.
"If you count gains and losses, he has won," says Zuhair Diab, an Arab analyst in London.
Diab and other Arab analysts and diplomats first point to the threats Saddam had been facing over the past few months. For five years, Iraqi troops were kept out of the north, which had been turned into a Kurdish autonomous area.
But lately Jalal Talabani, leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, had formed an ...