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Andrew P. Hunter: “I remember one story in the Post and I believe it was fairly well-documented about a high school class in Baghdad where…”

On the recordApril 28, 2004
I remember one story in the Post and I believe it was fairly well-documented about a high school class in Baghdad where the high schoolers, several of them wrote anti-Saddam Hussein remarks on the blackboard. They disappeared, and their families discovered after some years they had been hung. So high schoolers were taken out and hung for making anti-Saddam remarks.
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Andrew P. Hunter
Illinois

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Discussing the consequences of dissent in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

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