The Iraqi tyrant warned the (many now dead) Chechan terrorists, before Russian special forces stormed the place: “The tyrant of the age, namely Zionism and America, and not Russia, or China or India are our enemies,” Saddam said in a statement read on Iraqi state television. “Don’t make them hate us and Muslims.”
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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