CBS: 'Senior Officials' Think Saddam May Not Have Survived

CBS c/o Drudge

[Bigfish_2002]

CBS: 'Senior Officials' Think Saddam May Not Have Survived Thu Mar 20 2003 10:33:00 ET

"I am being told by several senior officials not to take that taped speech Saddam gave last night as proof that he survived the attack," CBS NEWS reporter David Martin said on air.

"They say the evidence that put him in the bunker last night was very reliable, and they are confident that the cruise missiles and bunker-busting bombs that were fired at that bunker last night hit the target. So now, intelligence experts are studying the tape to determine if it is really Saddam, or a body double which he is known to use from time to time. And they are running a computerized voice analysis, comparing that speech with known recordings of Saddam's voice. But that's a process that takes awhile. So we may not have a quick answer."

CBS adds that there is "is considerable belief in this government that they may, in fact, have gotten Saddam."

Developing...

[mattdono]

Wishful thinking, and that is about it...

[over3Owithabrain]

Oh let it be so.

Hell, party of 1...

[smith288]

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be understandable... lol

[Bigfish_2002]

SURVIVED

[smith288]

nevermind, fixed aparently

[Types_with_Fist]

verbatim from the CBS story from earlier

[oceanview]

I agree. If he had died in that first attack, the entire regime structure would be imploding right now.

[Semper Paratus]

2 things. Either they believe he sleeps with the camels, or its a replay of the Tariq Aziz gambit.

[ewing]

I heard the same thing and that Saddams two sons may have been in the building as well... plus 2 other Generals killed-5 total

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I hope it's true but I doubt it because it's so hard to get one man with a couple dozen missiles.

Maybe we did get him and now his Son's are running the show.

[usafsk]

Saddam survived, but Tariq Aziz was killed, and Saddam's contact lenses were also destroyed. That's why he appeared on TV wearing Tariq's way hip shades.

[SodiumWarthog]

Well, I'm certainly shocked and awed.

What's the offical time after 9:00 p.m. those bombs hit? That's got to be a record if true.

[bvw]

Doncha kinda maybe think that CBS might be the preferred conduit of disinfo?

[section9]

Saddam survived, but Tariq Aziz was killed, and Saddam's contact lenses were also destroyed. That's why he appeared on TV wearing Tariq's way hip shades.

ROTFLMAO!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Preachers Kid]

Just this ONE TIME - please let cBS be right.

[DannyTN]

Too bad for Iraq if evidence doesn't surface soon that Saddam is gone.

It's 6:30pm in Iraq now, my guess is that none of the 50 palaces and probably none of the major military control centers will survive the night.

Shame too, waste of good builidngs.

[deport]

It would seem that the intel would publish reports on the air etc in Iraq that Saddam is dead..... Thus causing confusion within the populace.

[VRWCmember]

CBS might be the preferred conduit of disinfo?

The clinton bull$#!+ network as a conduit of disinfo? how appropos would that be!