Saddam Fedayeen or "Saddam's Men of Sacrifice," were a violent paramilitary group specializing in counterinsurgency operations for Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad. Believed to be largely made up of brutal, unemployed youth, Saddam Fedayeen was founded in the mid-1990's by Uday Hussein, Saddam's eldest son. The group of anywhere from 18,000 to 40,000 members, hailed primarily from Saddam's al-Bu Nasser tribe and other Sunni-dominated tribes from the region around Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. As their name implies, the Fedayeen were said to be highly tenacious and willing to fight to their own death.

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