One of Ours

Few were happier than Ayatollah Imad al-Deen Awadi when Saddam Hussein was deposed. “This was a man so bad that people said they’d rather be ruled by Satan - the king of hell himself,” says the cleric, who spent 10 years in Mr. Hussein’s prisons.
But now Ayatollah Awadi worries that vicious fighting between US Marines and local insurgents in the Sunni triangle city of Fallujah is likely to spread across the country. “This is no longer about Fallujah,” he says. “If they aren’t ready for peace, it will spread and be just as hot in Ramadi, Abu Ghraib, the southern provinces, the whole country, really.”...