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I find it a little bizarre that a police state like Saddam's Iraq wouldn't have very detailed statistical information.
But maybe the only statistics they kept were for nefarious ends.

by praktike on Thu Dec 04, 2003 at 02:35:07 PM PDT
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  Oh, I'm sure Saddam's surveillance was low-tech and relied on informers.
  
  by paper tigress on Thu Dec 04, 2003 at 02:50:20 PM PDT
  
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  Didn't most of the informational infrastructure get destroyed in the rioting shortly after the fall of Baghdad? I remember thinking and commenting that this will come back to haunt them, the need for records, I mean.
  
  Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. --Elie Wiesel
  
  by a gilas girl on Thu Dec 04, 2003 at 07:20:07 PM PDT
  
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