The faint smell of sewage and stewed cabbage drifted through the shutters of the darkened window, and the room was still chilly from the cold cement walls. The men wore dark, unsmiling faces. Former lower-ranking members of Saddam’s ruling Baathist party, for years these men had ruled through intimidation and fear, assisting in the rape of Iraq and Iraqi women as these men sought to satisfy their slightest desire. Now they were left with nothing but bitterness and hate. Having tasted power, they were going through the equivalent of heroin withdrawal, and it was clear from their actions they valued nothing now—not their families, not their country, barely even their lives. The leader was a short man with a thin neck whose head strained awkwardly when he looked up to talk. Although he had a dark beard, he was bald, and his baldness reflected the light of the single bulb overhead. “Why is he willing to pay so much for this girl?” the short leader demanded his voice thick with sha, the opiate tea he drank every day.
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