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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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To: Sabertooth
WHASSSSSSSSSUUUUP?
Drinking a bud getting ready to nuke your a$$
41 posted on 05/04/2003 10:24:38 PM PDT by chance33_98 (www.hannahmore.com -- Shepherd Of Salisbury Plain is online, more to come! (my website))
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To: Happy2BMe

Someday when I'm awf'ly low,
And the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight

Oh, but you're lovely,  with your smile so warm
And your cheek so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you
Just the way you look tonight


With each word your tenderness grows,
tearing my fear apart,
And that laugh that wrink-les your nose
touches my foolish heart.

Oh, but you're lovely, never, never change,
Keep that breathless charm,
Won't you please arrange it, 'cause I love you,
Just the way you look tonight.

And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
touches my foolish heart.

Lovely, never, never change,
Keep that breathless charm,
Won't you please arrange it, 'cause I love you,
Just the way you look tonight.
Just the way you look tonight.


42 posted on 05/04/2003 10:26:12 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (The Ever So Humble Banana Republican)
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To: Sabertooth
Thanks! You do such a great job on this subject! I get tears in my eyes from laughing everytime I see them. You may have to incorporate some of the Chia Head Stuff.
43 posted on 05/04/2003 10:40:47 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: Happy2BMe
This re-defines friendly fire casualty
44 posted on 05/04/2003 10:41:03 PM PDT by paul51
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To: chance33_98; MinuteGal
Wow! These are great Chia Head Cameo's!

MinuteGal, bet you haven't had this much fun of a thread in a day or so.

Thanks, again, Chance!
45 posted on 05/04/2003 10:43:23 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Thanks, for the poetry!

This has become a really great thread!
46 posted on 05/04/2003 10:46:04 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
You are right, he does look like ASIAN AL Davis. He just needs an Oakland Raider Jacket and about 12 trial lawyers circling around him like attack pit bulls.
47 posted on 05/04/2003 10:48:50 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: chance33_98
This is really great, Whatssss Up Man?!
48 posted on 05/04/2003 10:50:49 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: Happy2BMe
But he wasn't a terrorist right, France, Germany, and a few British reporters?
49 posted on 05/04/2003 10:53:06 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: Sabertooth
Hey! We both got wieners!


50 posted on 05/04/2003 11:02:58 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: Grampa Dave
I've had so much fun on this thread I forgot to look at the time, yikes.

Ciao!

Leni

51 posted on 05/04/2003 11:11:28 PM PDT by MinuteGal (THIS JUST IN ! Astonishing fare reduction for FReeps Ahoy Cruise! Check it out, pronto!)
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To: chance33_98
No. This is a photo of a corpse. ;-)


52 posted on 05/04/2003 11:12:35 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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To: NormsRevenge; Yehuda; dennisw; SJackson; veronica
Damn, this is hideous. Looks like the Israeli IDF has been forcing him to OD on Mogen David Pure Grape El Cheapo Kosher Wine.


53 posted on 05/04/2003 11:22:13 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: bonesmccoy; the_doc
What the hell is happening to Arafarty. What is the terminal disease when your lips and nose turn this purple color?


54 posted on 05/04/2003 11:24:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: MinuteGal
Good Night!
55 posted on 05/04/2003 11:27:53 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
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To: Grampa Dave
He's been hitting the Purple Koolaid pretty heavy, it would appear.

I'd like to make a pitcher of Jimmy Jones' special brew just for him.

56 posted on 05/04/2003 11:30:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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To: Happy2BMe
They still need more payback.
57 posted on 05/04/2003 11:35:48 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty
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To: Happy2BMe
Thanks for the post, but I wonder if we can we REALLY believe
an Islamic paper is truthfully reporting on this guy's death?

He is one of the 7 or eight that several sources had said
escaped to Syria, and he was hiding out in a certain hotel
there.

Also, in order to believe this report, one has to also
believe Saddam survived both bombings, 3/20/2003
and 4/07/2003. Time will tell...

I'll start noting his new 'possible' status on the charts.
please ping me if there are ever any independent confirmations
of this.

58 posted on 05/04/2003 11:42:50 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Freedom_Loving_Engineer)
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To: Grampa Dave
>>YO KIM CHIA HEAD, THE SHORT DONGED ONE! <<

That's hilarious!

risa
59 posted on 05/05/2003 2:09:31 AM PDT by Risa ( GET)
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To: quietolong
Saddam's idol was Joe Stalin Not Adolf Hitler.

He may have admired Stalin, and his recent military advisors may have been Stalinist Russians, but his origins are definitely fascist. Consider that his uncle was Kharaillah Tulfah, who worked with the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini. The Mufti had links to Nazi Germany, probably established by Adolf Eichmann after he was appointed in 1937. According to Chuck Morse, the Mufti helped fund Nazi activities all over the Arab world, including a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq that failed. He would later go to Germany and then be sent to Bosnia where he recruited 100,000 muslims to fight for Hitler.

His cry was, "Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you."

Saddam was definitely a student of Hitler's. And given Abu Mazen's Holocaust denial, and his connection to the Mufti through Arafat, I do not see an immediate end to the influence of the Mufti in mideast affairs.

60 posted on 05/05/2003 3:18:15 AM PDT by risk
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