[No trial, no judge, no defense. Iraqis would remember it as] the night of the long knives, ... The Reckoning.
"Sandra Mackey" was an award winning writer on Middle Eastern culture and politics.
Mackey earned an M.A. in International Affairs from the University of Virginia and taught political science at Georgia State University. She served as a visiting scholar in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Her writings appeared in such periodicals as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Christian Science Monitor.
In addition to appearing on NPR, Nightline (US news program)/Nightline, ABC World News Tonight/ABC News with Peter Jennings and the BBC, she served as a commentator on the first Gulf War for CNN. Her book Lebanon: Death of a Nation was named to the New York Times list of Notable Books of 1989.
More Sandra Mackey on Wikipedia.There was a quid pro quo with these tribal leaders that Saddam Hussein would provide them weapons and money, pander to their interests in their neighborhood, and they in turn would control their own people in the name of Saddam Hussein.
Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein.
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