Searching For Saddam -- Slate
A five-part series on how the U.S. military used social networking to capture the Iraqi dictator.
Traffic had slowed to a crawl in Baghdad's Azamiyah district as drivers stopped to ogle the president. It was April 2003, and Saddam Hussein cheerily greeted his subjects as a few bodyguards tried to keep the crowd at bay. Someone handed Saddam a bewildered baby, which he hoisted up in the air a few times and handed back. When he reached a white sedan, Saddam climbed onto the hood to survey the sea of loyalists.
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My Comment: I have been waiting a few years for an article/series like this one. Part 1 is today, and this is a must read.
On a side note, the power of social networking in war cannot be underestimated, and Slate has been successful in revealing this in this series. If someone has the contacts and background, one should look at how social networking can .... and probably is .... unraveling the Taliban leadership in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. I am sure that such an article will be just as interesting.
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