3 CIA assets killed in Baghdad

UPI ^ | 4/4/03 | Richard Sale

[Lancey Howard]

If three CIA assets were actually identified by Saddam's regime, they would certainly not be "executed". They would be kept alive and tortured until they were dead. And then they would simply never be seen or heard from again.

I do not believe this story.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Women ululated

Don't you just hate it when women do that?

[speekinout]

If three CIA assets were actually identified by Saddam's regime, they would certainly not be "executed".

Surely not. At least one of them would have had a family member who could be tortured until he was convinced to turn on the CIA.

Or maybe not. It's possible (and sometimes seems likely) that there isn't anyone in charge of Saddam's regime anymore. It could be just those few ministers we see and some desperate commanders "winging it". That could explain why so much of what we see is unpredictable.

[The Great Satan]

Another administration official said that Saddam was "definitely alive" after the strike and appeared on Friday, March 21, wearing glasses because of concussive damage to the capillaries of his retinas.

LOL! You cannot make this stuff up. Well, I suppose there is a fellow in the basement of the Pentagon whose job is doing precisely that.

[SandyEgo]

...as we speak, I'm ulutlating...or at least, hope to be later.
ha

[Fred Mertz]

Someone this evening asked me why would the Iraqis still be fighting if Saddam was dead. It made sense.

[The Great Satan]

Someone this evening asked me why would the Iraqis still be fighting if Saddam was dead. It made sense.

Oftentimes, the simplest dumb-ass questions can be enormously clarifying.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Uh, gee UPI, really?

Well, Helen Thomas did quit the organization in disgust a few years back when it was bought out. :-)

[chinche]

This is noise. To whom is it directed?

[antaresequity]

Delta troops and CIA paramilitaries

The Arab street and its prophets are no match for our guys

The next few decades is going to be messy...glad Im on the winning team

[The Great Satan]

This is noise. To whom is it directed?

Interesting question. Got any theories? Nick Danger's point about the three spies is interesting, but that's only part of the explanation.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Looks like bile puked up by the Clintonian State Department.

[Mitchell]

This is noise. To whom is it directed?

I don't believe that this story is true.Why would the U.S. release information that would only serve to discourage other Iraqis from helping us?

So assume that this story is not true, but that there was, in fact, an attempt on Saddam Hussein's command capabilities (and maybe on his life) at the start of the war. If this is correct, then this story is directed at Saddam himself. The purpose is to goad him, to needle him, to worry him, with the fact that he has a high-level mole that he has not caught.

[The_Media_never_lie]

...as we speak, I'm ulutlating...or at least, hope to be later. ha

No offence, dear, but I'm glad I cannot hear you. Please do not ever ululate in my presence.

Regards,

[Happy2BMe]

FOX just reported - 2 of the informants executed immediately, one had his tongue cut out and left to die in his own blood.

The (Islamic) traitor who fragged his own U.S. troops will be treated much differently.

[Happy2BMe]

ul·u·late
Pronunciation: -"lAt
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -lat·ed; -lat·ing
Etymology: Latin ululatus, past participle of ululare, of imitative origin
Date: 1623
: HOWL, WAIL

Not to be confused with JUBILATION.

[Sparky760]

Fox really reported this? What was the source? I really didn't believe this was true.

[browardchad]

If someone in U.S. intelligence deliberately leaked this story, it being true and he not being authorized to leak it, then that person needs to be tried, or "terminated" in the field.

Let’s see, we have “former and serving U.S. officials,” “sources,” a “former long-time CIA operative,” “one former senior CIA official,” “a senior administration official,” “one former senior agency covert operative,” and it’s written by UPI.

And pigs fly.