meldet jedenfalls die grosse indische Zeitung Hindustan Times. As the Iraqi capital crumbles, US forces are now targeting Tikrit, the desert hometown of leader Saddam Hussein, a dusty redoubt bristling with loyalists and crack troops who could be bent on making it the site of a real last stand for the Iraqi regime. (...) "It is entirely possible that some residual elements of the Baath Party will reconstitute themselves as an underground revolutionary armed-struggle party that will launch terrorist attacks against US forces and the interim authority," said John Pike, a military analyst at GlobalSecurity.org.