Sunday Herald The Western press is currently fixated on the Fedayeen, and little wonder. Not only are its suicide squads, which are now claiming allied lives, the main tactic of Iraqi resistance, but this cadre of men -- who sometimes wear white jumpsuits and balaclavas, symbolising the death shroud they will wear when they martyr themselves for Saddam -- has carried out appalling atrocities against its own people. But the Fedayeen, despite the suicide squads it has now dispatched into southern Iraq, is just one of a series of Iraqi special forces, elite units and paramilitary irregulars who hold sway in Saddam's regime and are now forcing the coalition forces to redefine their combat strategy in the deserts and cities of Iraq.
Jeremy Binnie, the Middle East editor of Jane's Sentinel Security Assessments, says: 'The Iraqi regime has surrounded itself with concentric circles of military, security and paramilitary units. Each one offsets the power of the other.
Jeremy Binnie, the Middle East editor of Jane's Sentinel Security Assessments, says: 'The Iraqi regime has surrounded itself with concentric circles of military, security and paramilitary units. Each one offsets the power of the other.
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