Special Report from Iraq: It's an Information War
By Colonel Norvell B. De Atkine, USA (Ret.)
Capturing Saddam Hussein was an important event. It was not a watershed, however. After seven months of only poor-quality audiotapes from Hussein and no video, some had begun to believe he was dead. In any event, he had very little control of the resistance against the Coalition. His capture will attenuate the depth of the resistance but will not end it. In the short run, it may result in a brief spike in attacks as the loose collection of Baathis, Arab nationalists, and Sunni malcontents try to prove to the Western media and movers with money in the Arab world they are still a force with which to be reckoned.
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Colonel De Atkine is a former foreign area specialist who has taught Middle Eastern political-military affairs within the special operations community for the last 17 years. A graduate of the masters program at the American University of Beirut, he lived for 8 years in the Arab world and traveled extensively throughout the region. He was the military attaché in Amman, Jordan at the time of the 1970 Jordanian civil war and director of Army programs in the Office of Military Cooperation from 1981 to1983 as Egypt began its conversion from Soviet to U.S. military armament.
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