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Posted on 10/08/2002 9:32:50 AM PDT by Jasonconley
Saddam has been lucky enough to survive several attempts on his life
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas wrote with reference to Iraqi sources that there was an attempt on Saddam Hussein’s life. According to the newspaper, the attempt was allegedly made by an Iraqi military pilot.
The mentioned newspaper wrote that the pilot tried to hit the presidential palace where Saddam was staying. The Kuwaiti newspaper reported that the attempt was made last week. The pilot is reportedly dead. Full details of the incident are not yet known.
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As Long as he stays Front page news for 4 more weeks.
It keeps the demagogues from grasping the spotlight....
Here's hoping the palace has sunk!!
And Saddam would sing, "57 Presidential palaces in the land, 57 palaces...Fly a plane in, knock it down, 56 palaces in the land..."
Are the owned by the L.A. Times?
20:07 2002-10-08
Kamikaze Pilot Attacks Saddam’s Palace
Saddam has been lucky enough to survive several attempts on his life
The Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas wrote with reference to Iraqi sources that there was an attempt on Saddam Hussein’s life. According to the newspaper, the attempt was allegedly made by an Iraqi military pilot.
The mentioned newspaper wrote that the pilot tried to hit the presidential palace where Saddam was staying. The Kuwaiti newspaper reported that the attempt was made last week. The pilot is reportedly dead. Full details of the incident are not yet known.
Official Iraqi sources have not confirmed the information. This attempt to kill Saddam is not the first. There have been several of them in the past, and all of them have failed, including this one. The CIA tried to knock off the Iraqi leader during the Gulf War, but the operation failed as well.
After that, Saddam increased the number of his security guards and also provided himself with three doubles. A former chief of the Iraqi secret police said in an interview to German journalists that Hussein’s doubles have been used for official meetings with foreign guests. This has prevented several real attempts on the Iraqi leader’s life. Bullets meant for him were shot into two Iraqi men who were unlucky enough to look like Saddam.
The Iraqi opposition has tried to kill Saddam as well. Three acts of terrorism have been performed against Hussein over the recent couple of years. However, Saddam survived all of them. A stupid accident stopped the Iraqi opposition at the end of 1997. Colonel Ali Assamarrai, one of the organizers of the assassination, was driving his car at a high speed when a wheel of his car broke. The vehicle flipped over. This occured on the very same day that it was planned to kill Saddam. Security services examined the car and found several suspicious documents. They cross-examined the colonel, and he eventually pleaded guilty, betraying his accomplices. All of them – 14 people –were arrested and executed on September 30.
The Iraqi opposition also tried to arrange an armed ambush along the way of Saddam’s procession in January of 2000. The subversive act should have taken place on January 6th: Iraqi Army Day. Hussein was going to decorate a group of Iraqi soldiers. However, the conspiracy was unveiled. All of its participants – 38 people – were executed without trial or an investigation.
Dmitry Litvinovich
PRAVDA.Ru
Translated by Dmitry Sudakov
That makes the U.S. unlucky.
Looks like the Iraqi military has figured out their odds. They're trying to save their own butts! Get rid of Saddam, and they won't all die.
More like Breaking Snooze, if you know what I mean. (Or Breaking Wind.)
This story is ridiculous.
I just wish that people who post only excerpts would warn us in the title so that those of us that don't have time to go clicking all over the internet would know to avoid their posts.
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