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Arab Volunteers Feel Betrayed by Hussein's Iraq


(Christian Science Monitor) - Paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by American soldiers in the battle for Baghdad, Fahd, an 18-year-old Syrian student, reserves any bitterness solely for the Iraqi Republican Guards, "traitors," he says, who yielded the Iraqi capital without a fight. All across the Arab world, young men who rallied to defend Iraq are returning home, many of them disillusioned and embittered by the swift collapse of Iraqi resistance and the sometimes hostile reception they received from ordinary Iraqis.
2003-04-29 00:00:00
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