![]() Reports appearing in the Western media suggest that Saddam continues to be defiant. Saddam's supporters were angry after a newspaper owned by Ahmad Chalabi published a picture of a dishevelled Saddam talking to a nattily dressed Chalabi in a prison cell. A suicide bomber attacked a police station in Khaldiya, around 100 km north of Baghdad, killing 17 people, many of them policemen. Immediately after Saddam's pictures were shown on television, there were bombings in the Husseiniya and Amariya districts of Baghdad, killing six people. Now the Americans have decreed that no pro-Saddam demonstrations will be allowed, even if they are peaceful. ![]() They quelled protests by Iraqis in other towns inside the "Sunni triangle". Earlier, Iraqi civilians peacefully demonstrating in support of Saddam Hussein were gunned down by American troops in the town of Ramadi. However, American soldiers have started dying again.Ī day before Christmas, three American soldiers were killed in the town of Samarra, a hotbed of the resistance. American officials began making premature statements that the capture of Saddam Hussein had demoralised the resistance. After the capture of Saddam Hussein in the first week of December there was a brief lull in the attacks on American military personnel as the insurgent forces concentrated their attacks on Iraqi collaborators. The resistance forces targeted the area in and around the high-security "green zone", the site of the American military headquarters. THE early morning rocket barrage against American targets on Christmas day was a reminder to the occupation forces that the resistance was alive and kicking despite the capture of Saddam Hussein. expectations, Saddam Hussein's capture has only reinvigorated Iraqi resistance.
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