The Fedayeen May Be Our Worst Threat. "The Fedayeen are primarily comprised of, essentially, thugs drawn from the countryside who were recruited by Saddam's older son to join this unit," Byman ...

Saddam could even be hiding, the general said, in the same neighborhood where the 101st killed his two sons. “We’ve had rumors that he’s here, we’ve actually gone after him a couple of ...

Talking to the Al Jazeera correspondent, one member said, “We are Saddam’s Fedayeen. We shall kill the Americans and we shall kill all those who don’t kill the Americans.” -- Jailan Zayan ...

In the Fedayeen—connected to the global Islamist terrorist movement, combining elements of Ba’athism with an increasingly-stern Salafism—is a microcosm of the Saddam regime’s mutation into ...

In 1999, the top ten graduates of Saddam’s Fedayeen Academy (terrorist training center) were specifically chosen for assignment to London.

This publication is now archived. What is the Fedayeen Saddam?Experts say the Fedayeen Saddam, or Saddam’s Men of Sacrifice, is a 30,000 to 40,000-member Iraqi paramilitary group that appears to ...

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 ...

The Fedayeen had a total strength reportedly between 18,000 and 40,000 troops, according to GlobalSecurity.org, and was composed of young soldiers recruited from regions loyal to Saddam.

Here, an excerpt: "Saddam, on the other hand, could always count on two armed groups whose ONLY reason for being was their loyalty to him: the Republican Guard, and the paramilitary Fedayeen Saddam.

In Arabic, their name means "those who sacrifice themselves for Saddam. " The Fedayeen Saddam do the dirty work in Iraq, according to experts who have studied the inner workings of the Saddam ...

Kurdish security resembles Saddam's. Flag has changed, but informers still part of everyday life. By ...

REPRESENTATIVE John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, March 19, to evaluate the war in Iraq on its third anniversary. Murtha, a decorated veteran ...