82 AD CAPTURES FORMER SADDAM HUSSEIN BODYGUARD

CENTCOM ^ | Nov. 26, 2003

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

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November 26, 2003
Release Number: 03-11-47


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


82 AD CAPTURES FORMER SADDAM HUSSEIN BODYGUARD

AR RAMADI, Iraq – Elements of the 82nd Airborne Division successfully raided a house north of Ar Ramadi as part of ongoing operations in the area to capture individuals involved in anti-coalition activities.

Elements of the 1st Battalion, 16th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, conducted a raid on a house north of Ar Ramadi suspected of insurgent activity. At approximately 3:00am, the unit established a cordon of the area and entered the house, capturing four Iraqi personnel. Brig. Gen. Khalid Arak Hatimy, a former bodyguard of Saddam Hussein, was one of the men captured.

Task Force “All American” will continue to hunt and find former regime loyalists who threaten the safety of Iraqis and coalition forces.

[cookcounty]

".... Consider this - the bad guys originally covered up Saddam's death to maintain credibility and fear among the population..."

I continue to believe it is probable that both Osama and Hussein have been dead for quite awhile. It's in both of their interests (if they are alive) to appear and show themselves, yet they don't, instead relying on questionable tapes (audio-only is Saddam's case). No reporter has been spirited in to visit either one, not even Al-Jazera or Al-Arabiya, and one has to wonder "why not?" It would be a PR nuke for such an interview to go out, but it hasn't, and it won't.

[glock rocks]

"One by one we will get them."
- 1 Old Pro

[epluribus_2]

I had the exact same thought!!!!.

[SBprone]

I don't like this usage either, but I think it will soon become accepted as standard English. In the long run usage will determine the rules, not the other way around.

[glock rocks]

Used be entertainers and athletes because they are ignorant and uneducated.

You be spouting Ebonics?

[Cagey]

Hahahaha Great catch.

[Peach]

A Thanksgiving gift that could lead to the real deal...

[BushisTheMan]

Maybe my memory isn't quite accurate, but I remember a small cell of resistors who said they had Saddam with them. A short video was shown of the man with them. He had white hair (almost Albert Einstein looking) and white eyebrows. He really looked like Saddam to me during the quick pass. I've never heard or seen that video since. Anyone else see it? About 2 months back?

[Coop]

Will everyone please stop using the word HOPEFULLY. You sound like idiots. Say: I hope, or he hopes, or one hopes but stop writing HOPEFULLY.

Hopefully your polite request will be fulfilled.

[Coop]

Used be entertainers and athletes because they are ignorant and uneducated.

Must... ignore... the... irony! [gasp]

[epluribus_2]

I would have remembered that - missed me.

[Quilla]

What about this scenerio: Find someone who works for Rumsfeld, fairly high up but not with Wolfowitz status, who is planning on leaving government for whatever reason. (I like family reasons, they seem to work well.) Have this person come out any say that he knows for a fact that Saddam is dead. The media will play it for everything it's worth hoping to expose a rogue element of the DOD's inner circle. If the rumor doesn't generate a Saddam video then he's dead, Jim.

[Quilla]

Oops, any = and, hopefully y'all caught that. ;-)

[Dog]

Thanks for the ping Mo....

Happy Thanksgiving!

[lasereye]

But O.R. here mean't that an egomaniac who ruled a people for 30 years would not just blink out of sight and mind, starting April 7th, when his aides say they suddenly no longer heard from him as they awaited orders and that the republican guard was left floundering with no command. US military monitored chatter discussing his death.

So what killed him? They looked in the locations where we bombed and his body wasn't there. Did he commit suicide? Uday Hussein was actually in charge of the Republican Guard, and he sure was alive after April 7. Where did you get info about monitoring chatter about his death? Do you have a link?

[UCANSEE2]

I still believe Saddam died several months before the coalition strikes, and OBL died right after the start of the strikes.

Intell community had not seen the real Saddam for 2 years. Last REAL film of him he was very weak, very old, grey haired, barely could hold the rifle up to fire it for his yearly toast to his public. That was the last time the real Saddam was seen.

[e_engineer]

Did you say resistors?

[Col Freeper]

Will everyone please stop using the word HOPEFULLY. You sound like idiots. Say: I hope, or he hopes, or one hopes but stop writing HOPEFULLY.

From: Merriam-Webster (on-line) dictionary at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?HOPEFULLY

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One entry found for hopefully.

Main Entry: hope·ful·ly

Pronunciation: 'hOp-f&-lE

Function: adverb

Date: circa 1639

1 : in a hopeful manner

2 : it is hoped : I hope : we hope

usage In the early 1960s the second sense of hopefully, which had been in sporadic use since around 1932, underwent a surge of popular use. A surge of popular criticism followed in reaction, but the criticism took no account of the grammar of adverbs. Hopefully in its second sense is a member of a class of adverbs known as disjuncts. Disjuncts serve as a means by which the author or speaker can comment directly to the reader or hearer usually on the content of the sentence to which they are attached. Many other adverbs (as interestingly, frankly, clearly, luckily, unfortunately) are similarly used; most are so ordinary as to excite no comment or interest whatsoever. The second sense of hopefully is entirely standard.

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Perhaps a little more research needed before posting? 8-)

[exnavy]

It would be great if someone could accurately translate "remmember the WTC scumbag" for this dirtbag.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks!