WHO'S FIGHTING (via Judicious Asininity):

Specially Trained Iraqi Guerrillas Leading Resistance (WJLA News, 3/24/2003)

Specially trained paramilitary guerrillas and Saddam Hussein's security forces are leading the stiffest resistance to the U.S.-led invasion, trying to keep Iraqi soldiers from surrendering and organizing battlefield tricks that have inflicted casualties, U.S. and British officials said Sunday.

Members of the Fedayeen Saddam are suspected of having organized battlefield ruses using civilian clothes and cars and fake surrenders of Iraqi soldiers that drew in U.S. forces to be attacked in places like An Nasiriyah and Umm Qasr, the officials said.

The Fedayeen are elite inner-circle soldiers totaling about 15,000 that report directly to one of Saddam's sons....

Officials said the Fedayeen and Saddam's personal security force, known as the Special Security Organization, have been behind the stiffest resistance coalition troops have encountered as they raced from Kuwait through the south toward Baghdad.

"The majority of the resistance we have faced so far comes from Saddam's Special Security Organization and the Saddam Fedayeen," said Peter Wall, chief of staff to the British military contingent in the the U.S.-led coalition. "These are men who know that they will have no role in the building of a new Iraq and they have no future."

These groups are the equivalent of the Gestapo and SS. They deserve no mercy. Posted by Paul Jaminet at March 24, 2003 1:05 PM