The regime may use red tape, economic pressure or violence against its critics.
Other totalitarian regimes have used similar practices even if they did not codify them in law.
Alongside the men were three sheikhs who the regime had used to help secure its 42-year grip.
Sure, the regime will use all of its resources to stay in power.
The Iraqi regime has used diplomacy as a ploy to gain time and advantage.
"Nothing was found, and even at the last moment of their struggle for survival, the Iraqi regime did not use it," he said.
In all these cases, an inhumane regime is using our humanity against us.
The new regime is using Unseeli as a testing ground.
These regimes could use such weapons for blackmail, terror and mass murder.
I hardly think it likely that the present regime will use the money better.