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Saddam killed his top commander as Marines stormed Baghdad
The World Tribune ^ | 4 May, 2003

Posted on 05/04/2003 8:08:59 PM PDT by Happy2BMe

Saddam killed his top commander as Marines stormed Baghdad

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Sunday, May 4, 2003

LONDON — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein killed his leading military commander on charges of treason as U.S. forces captured Baghdad.

The London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat daily said Saddam and his younger son, Qusay, executed Gen. Seif Eddin Al Rawi on April 8. The newspaper said Al Rawi, commander of the elite Republican Guards, was accused of treason and shot in the head and back.

Al Rawi was summoned by Saddam and executed on the day U.S. marines captured the Iraqi capital. The newspaper said Al Rawi's body was sent to his family.

The newspaper report appeared to indicate that Saddam had not intended to allow the rapid advance of the U.S. military toward Baghdad. Saddam had deployed six Republican Guard divisions around the Iraqi capital, Middle East Newsline reported.

But two of the divisions, the Baghdad and Medina divisions, were neutralized by U.S. air attacks. The four other divisions were said to have failed to put up serious resistance.

On Friday, U.S. Central Command announced the capture of three Saddam aides. The command said two of them were members of the Revolutionary Command Council and the third was the director of Iraq's weapons development program. All three were captured on Thursday.

The captured aides were identified as Abdul Tawab Mullah Huwaysh, director of the Office of Military Industrialization. The Office of Military Industrialization was responsible for the development of Iraq's most lethal weapons. Huwaysh was listed as No. 16 on the U.S. most-wanted list.

The other two Iraqis were Taha Muhyl al Din Maruf, vice president and a member of the Revolutionary Command Council. Maruf was No. 42 on the U.S. list of 55 most wanted Iraqis.

The United States also captured Mizban Khadr Hadi, another Revolutionary Command Council member who had been an adviser to Saddam since the early 1980s. Hadi was No. 41 on the U.S. list.


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Not much future in health insurance policies for Iraqi general officers.
1 posted on 05/04/2003 8:09:00 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
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To: Happy2BMe
Wow.
2 posted on 05/04/2003 8:14:07 PM PDT by fightinJAG
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To: Happy2BMe
Just following the lead of his idol -- Adolf Hitler. Nothing new here. Old news. Time to move on.
3 posted on 05/04/2003 8:19:06 PM PDT by ex-Texan (primates capitulards toujours en quete de fromage!)
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To: Happy2BMe
Sounds like the military version of the federal witness protection program. Coincidentally, his entire family was also executed and their remains cannot be found. No problem with it if true as he probably saved quite a few of our soldiers lives. So long and thanks for the fish.

Sorry, overactive imagination.
4 posted on 05/04/2003 8:21:43 PM PDT by foto
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To: fightinJAG
Payback is a beech!


5 posted on 05/04/2003 8:23:07 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (LIBERTY has arrived in Iraq - Now we can concentrate on HOLLYWEED!)
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No wonder "Baghdad Bob" was so insistent that American forces were nowhere near Baghdad. He was just trying to keep his buddies from getting executed.
6 posted on 05/04/2003 8:23:09 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (California wine beats French wine in blind taste tests. Boycott French wine.)
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To: Happy2BMe
Saddam killed his top commander as Marines stormed Baghdad

Good idea! I must remember that!

Kim Jong-Il: inscrutably divine(AFP/File)
Sat May 3, 2:22 PM ET

Kim Jong-Il: inscrutably divine(AFP/File)

7 posted on 05/04/2003 8:26:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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To: Happy2BMe
What Saddam was mad about:

http://www.jeffhead.com/iraqifreedom/stamps.htm
8 posted on 05/04/2003 8:28:25 PM PDT by fightinJAG
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To: NormsRevenge

Holy Kimchee!

I Must Destroy The Internet
Before My Generals Find This Out!!

Kim Jong-Il: inscrutably divine(AFP/File)

9 posted on 05/04/2003 8:33:59 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (LIBERTY has arrived in Iraq - Now we can concentrate on HOLLYWEED!)
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To: Happy2BMe
Thanks ... LOL
10 posted on 05/04/2003 8:36:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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To: NormsRevenge
ROFL!!!
11 posted on 05/04/2003 8:37:50 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)
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To: Happy2BMe
Just amazing!
12 posted on 05/04/2003 8:38:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)
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To: Happy2BMe
saddam drop the general and pick up the two suitcases with the cash,saddam just saved a couple million dollars.
13 posted on 05/04/2003 8:39:00 PM PDT by green team 1999
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To: *war_list; W.O.T.; Dog Gone; Grampa Dave; blam; Sabertooth; NormsRevenge; Gritty; SierraWasp; ...
OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST
14 posted on 05/04/2003 8:40:09 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)
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To: Happy2BMe

"HA haaa..."
16 posted on 05/04/2003 8:45:36 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Happy2BMe
Sooooooooo......does this guy get the virgins or no?
17 posted on 05/04/2003 8:51:45 PM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
YO KIM CHIA HEAD, THE SHORT DONGED ONE!


18 posted on 05/04/2003 8:56:42 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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How did he let that picture out!
19 posted on 05/04/2003 9:06:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
He is probably proud of it, including the bad case of Herpes on the middle of his upper lip. That is probably a lingering memory left by Mad Albright on her visit to Yo Kim Chia Head, the Short Donged One.
20 posted on 05/04/2003 9:09:46 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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