Thursday the 17th...the 35th anniversary of the Baath Party's rise to power.
This year there will be no parades, state speeches or poems dedicated to Saddam Hussein, but U.S. officials say they are prepared for trouble this week on the anniversary of the 1968 coup that brought the former dictator's Baath Party to power...
Officials are expecting isolated gatherings, but they don't anticipate large demonstrations or riots. Nor do conversations on the street indicate a widespread fear of major attacks.
"Saddam Hussein and his Baathists are finished," said Ahmed Hussein, a 27-year-old tea vendor in central Baghdad.
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