Saddam Hussein: madman -- or master tactician? Mideast analysts take stock of Iraqi

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 17, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

in New York contributed to this report.

AMMAN, Jordan -- Is Saddam Hussein a madman? Do the past 10 days of provocation and brinkmanship show the Iraqi ruler to be, as Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has labeled him, a "psychopath?" Or is he craftily pursuing a strategy that furthers his own interests?

On the second anniversary of the Gulf War, officials, diplomats and analysts throughout the Middle East, along with Iraqis in Jordan, have been struggling with those questions and offering a variety of answers.

Some looked at patterns of behavior Saddam Hussein has demonstrated over his ...

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