After the defeat of Saddam Hussein regiment, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki of Iraq excluded Iraqi Sunnis from having any power in the government and favored the majority in population: the Shia. ... He would also prohibit Saddam former employees under the Hussein administration to hold office in the new government if they were Sunni. Maliki, against advice from the United States, formed death squads to hunt down Saddam's Hussein ex officer corps and in turn ex high ranking officers of Saddam regime went into hiding and vowed revenge on the new regime that had replaced them. ... What sepa...

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Considered an act of using violence against people to inculcate fear or intimidate a government or the civilian population. It is mostly in the pursuit of political, ideological or religious goals. The word terrorism was first used in France to describe a new system of government adopted during th...

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Iraq posed no threat that would justify preemptive war and Saddam Hussein had no ties to Al-Queda. ... The benefits are the killing of insurgents, the ousting of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, and the crippling of Al-Qaeda. ...

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