Iraq executes Baath officials

UPI ^ | Mar 28, 2003 | Staff

[Diddley]

BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 28 (UPI) --
Iraqi commander Ali Hassan al-Majeed ordered seven Baath officials in Basra executed on charges of "treason," Lebanon's al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported Friday.

The newspaper also said al-Majeed dismissed the Baath party leader and replaced the military commander.

[Diddley]

If this is true, keep up the work Iraqi commanders.

[attydjv]

I love it. They are eating their own.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

The fratricide starts. It is slow, but will roll like a snowball before this is done.

[tomahawk]

Chemical Ali deep-sixing some Baathist/Nazis. Chemical Ali will be deep-sixed soon, too.

[Lil'freeper]

Let's just pray they were none of our intelligence assets. Saddam may have found out who tipped us off for that decapitation bombing...

[AmericanInTokyo]

My God.

It's a BLOODBA'ATH!

[Howlin]

I wonder who has killed more Iraqis, us or them?

[Hodar]

Iraqi commander Ali Hassan al-Majeed ordered seven Baath officials in Basra executed on charges of "treason," Lebanon's al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported Friday.

Ali Hassan al-Majeed is a top graduate and validictorian speaker for the "Darth Vader Instituite of Military Leadership"

[Frank_Discussion]

Stop... You're... KILLING ME!!! LOL!

[Poohbah]

To start avalanche, pull keystone.

[denydenydeny]

If I had to guess, I would say that a few officers may have questioned Saddam's orders through Chemical Ali to send out the tanks to certain destruction yesterday, and that was their death warrant.

[mewzilla]

Wonder if they got the wood chipper?

[MHGinTN]

IMO, we ought to step back and allow the terrorized people to quench their bloodlust once the war stops.

[Poohbah]

Let's just pray they were none of our intelligence assets. Saddam may have found out who tipped us off for that decapitation bombing...

Let's hope we planted some fake evidence pointing to another worthless POS :o)

[trussell]

Great!! We have our guys taking care of business, and we have Iraqi's help too. This war shouldn't last long at this rate.

[ArrogantBustard]

Them. By a wide margin. After the 1991 war, saddam "quelled" several uprisings. There weren't very many survivors.

[Political Junkie Too]

Iraqi commander Ali Hassan al-Majeed ordered seven Baath officials in Basra executed...

Isn't that Hussein's job? Could it be that al-Majeed doesn't fear usurping Hussein's power?

-PJ

[colorado tanker]

Note to Iraqi officials: Surrender first, then talk.

[Allan]

This article is a bit puzzling.
If these 7 officials presently are in Basra
how do they plan to get to them
through British lines
to carry out the orders?

[Argus]

Good point. We don't know what this means, but it's encouraging when the jackals start to tear at each other.