(Newsweek) Evan Thomas and John Barry - During the military parade through downtown Baghdad some of Saddam's fedayeen ("men of sacrifice") were garbed in the familiar tan camouflage of the U.S. Army. Saddam has ordered thousands of uniforms identical, down to the last detail, to those worn by U.S. and British troopers. The plan: to have Saddam's men, posing as Western invaders, slaughter Iraqi citizens while the cameras roll for Al-Jazeera. Saddam is hardly above gassing his own people and pretending that the Americans - the "Crusaders and Jews and infidels" - are to blame. Antiaircraft batteries and tanks and artillery have been placed beneath and beside mosques, hospitals, and schools.
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