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Top Iraqi defector disappears
MSNBC.com ^
| March 18, 2003
Posted on 03/18/2003 3:54:15 PM PST by Sweet_Sunflower29
SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq, March 17 — The highest-level officer to defect from Saddam Hussein’s army disappeared from his home in Denmark on Monday under mysterious circumstances, according to family members and a Danish state official. Gen. Nizar al-Khazraji, Saddam’s former army chief of staff, was seen by some as playing an important role in a post-war
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alkhazraji; captures; defectors; dissidents; iraq; iraqidefectors; war; warlist
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Oh oh.
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
"Just going out to the store for a pack of cigs. Be right back."
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posted on
03/18/2003 3:56:44 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts: Proofs establish links)
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
This guy was facing possible a possible war crimes trial in Denmark. Now that he sees his country about to be liberated, it would seem to be a no-brainer to disappear from the Danish scene only to reappear in Iraq after the regime change.
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posted on
03/18/2003 3:57:01 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(California wine beats French wine in blind taste tests)
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
hmmmm
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posted on
03/18/2003 3:57:04 PM PST
by
ChadGore
(No matter where you go, there you are.)
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Sounds like he had ample motive to make himself scarce. I don't think we would want someone like him in post-Saddam Iraq, anyway.
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posted on
03/18/2003 3:57:43 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Here the French go again.
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posted on
03/18/2003 3:58:12 PM PST
by
billhilly
To: billhilly
Come on everybody!
Think about it for a minute:
1. Denmark is on our side.
2. This guy could not just 'disappear' without sanction. But this 'disappearance gives deniability to the Denmark authorities.
3. Rumor puts him in Saudi Arabia.
4. This guy is the General Powell of the Iraqi Army.
5. Don't you think he could be useful in organizing defections and surrenders?
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posted on
03/18/2003 4:03:07 PM PST
by
John Valentine
(Writing from downtown Seoul, keeping an eye on the hills to the north.)
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Is your link having problems?
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posted on
03/18/2003 4:05:05 PM PST
by
xJones
To: John Valentine
How dare you be serious and actually make sense, when I am being snide and taking cheap shots at France.
To: Sweet_Sunflower29; *war_list; W.O.T.; 11th_VA; Libertarianize the GOP; Free the USA; knak; ...
To: John Valentine
Let's hope it is that and not one of Saddam/Chirac's operatives capturing him...
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posted on
03/18/2003 4:08:03 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: billhilly
There is no such thing as a cheap shot at France!
To: John Valentine
Also, even after the eventual surrender, we're going to need Iraqis to be in charge of civilian policing.
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posted on
03/18/2003 4:09:15 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: billhilly
The last place I want to be is in front of somebody looking to take a cheap shot at France!
Fire away.
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posted on
03/18/2003 4:32:45 PM PST
by
John Valentine
(Writing from downtown Seoul, keeping an eye on the hills to the north.)
To: Trust but Verify
There is no such thing as a cheap shot at France! lol
To: John Valentine
Chris Core was just saying on WMAL radio in D.C. that there have been indications that a lot of the Iraqi army is not going to fight.
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
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posted on
03/18/2003 5:05:11 PM PST
by
Happy2BMe
(HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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