Frank Herbert's Iraq

Date: 2003-03-19 12:05 pm (UTC)
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It was the usual creepy military parade through downtown Baghdad. Some of Saddam’s fedayeen (“men of sacrifice”) were dressed in dazzling white uniforms—”the color of a shroud, because we expect to die,” explained a 24-year-old fedayeen leader.

fedayeen Wasn't that the name Frank Herbert used for the Fremen elite guard in the Dune series, or at least it was real close to that....
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