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Sitting beneath a Dallas Cowboys T-shirt pinned to the wall of his office deep inside a former Baathist presidential palace, Lieutenant Colonel Jim Stockmoe lolled back in his chair and roared with laughter at the fatal idiocy of so many of his enemies.
‘We’ve had well over a dozen examples of these knuckleheads doing stupid things,’ he chuckled.

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