Here's Kanaan Makiya's latest entry, a truly terrifying description of the notorious and dreaded Fedayeen Saddam. If you're wondering why uprisings haven't yet happened all over Iraq, this entry will explain why. "The Fedayeen training in the infamous camps of Salman Pak.... is characterized by its intensity and its deliberate attempts, through psychological means, to isolate recruits from society at large and transform them into a fiercely disciplined and deliberately cruel force. The training instills in recruits a sense of paranoia, the feeling that the very precariousness of the regime is a personal threat to them. This is a force that sees plots against the regime everywhere, even though the regime is all-powerful over them. This paranoia soon turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy, since the people they terrorize would gladly rip them limb from limb if they got half a chance. The Fedayeen, in other words, is a force that knows what fate awaits it after liberation.... unlike the regular army, they will therefore fight to the finish".