US has plan to assassinate Saddam: Iraqi opposition leader

AFP | 6/29/02

[kattracks]

DOHA, June 29 (AFP) - The United States has drafted a general plan to kill Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi opposition leader told Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera Saturday night.

Washington is tracking Saddam's movements through satellite data and human intelligence, with the plan to order air strikes "to try to kill him" when they are sure "they have determined with accuracy the spot where he can be found," said former Iraqi intelligence chief Wafiq Sammarai.

The warplanes could take off from the southern Turkey military base of Incirlik and bases in the Gulf, by the Mediterranean or the Red Sea, said Sammarai, who defected from Iraq in 1994 and joined the London-based Iraqi National Congress opposition group.

Sammarai called the plan "serious", but stressed he did "not think this operation is going to come soon.

"If they fail (in killing Saddam), they could conduct raids against several targets," said Sammarai, who added he was in contact with the Kurdish opposition enclave in northern Iraq.

He denied the presence of US troops in Kurdish Iraq which is protected from Saddam under a US-imposed no-fly zone.

"There are not any American troops in the north of Iraq at present," Sammarai said.

Sammarai also dismissed a Saturday report in the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir that said 2,000 US troops had been stationed in Jordan to oust Saddam. Jordan has already called the story false.

"I can also affirm that there are no American troops in Jordan," he said.

The Washington Post reported June 16 that US President George W. Bush had ordered the CIA to draft plans for toppling Saddam.

The presidential order, an expansion of a previous presidential finding designed to oust Saddam, directs the CIA to use all available tools, including increased support to opposition groups inside and outside Iraq.

Bush also allowed for the possible use of Central Intelligence Agency and US Special Forces teams in the operation, with such forces being authorized to kill the Iraqi president if they were acting in self-defense, the Washington Post said, quoting sources.

[TADSLOS]

Strategery at work.

[socal_parrot]

Shhhh! It's a secret.

[teletech]

Hey Saddam, step over by this window to see what a beautiful day we are having.

[goodieD]

LOL! took me a minute to catch that one, thanks.

[Diogenesis]

Between his quasi sons, his first and second tier officers,
and predators with Hellfire laser guided missiles .....
Be afraid Saddamm. Be very afraid.

[Don Myers]

Well, assassination of political leaders has it's drawbacks. A targeted leader could decide that tit for tat is in order.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Not that they haven't already done so...

[Fabozz]

"'There are not any American troops in the north of Iraq at present,' Sammarai said."

"Those troops are Turkish. The American troops are all in the southern no-fly zone," he continued.

[SevenofNine]

OHHH Saddammmmmmm

Come to the door
There are some NICEE Sweettttt US Special forces who want sell Girl Scout cookies HEH HEH

[6ppc]

Candygram!

[spetznaz]

Honestly unless Saddam is privy to some potent anti-stress drugs, or he is a master of some unknown 'ultra-meditation technique, he must be going through some horrible stress! Think of it....his sons, potential usurpers in his cabinet, Kurdish separatists, opposition leaders, lurking Predators armed with Hellfire missiles, B2 Bombers flying from Whitemann in Missouri, CIA backed foreign agents, etc etc!

I would not want to be him!

[The Vast Right Wing]

Who is it? Landshark!

[SevenofNine]

YEAHHH that good 6ppc

I am hoping this story is true but I think it might be true if coming off AFP wire they get good stuff before western media found out it

YEAHHH

Candygram Saddam


OOPS SORRY LOL!

[ContentiousObjector]

Yeah, and they also have had a plan to murder Castro for 40 god damn years

I am sure Saddam is rolled up in a ball in the corner of his closet with his teddy bear scared to death.

The CIA couldn't assasinate a Canada Goose shitting in the parking lot

[The Great Satan]

Honestly unless Saddam is privy to some potent anti-stress drugs, or he is a master of some unknown 'ultra-meditation technique, he must be going through some horrible stress! Think of it....his sons, potential usurpers in his cabinet, Kurdish separatists, opposition leaders, lurking Predators armed with Hellfire missiles, B2 Bombers flying from Whitemann in Missouri, CIA backed foreign agents, etc etc!

My guess is he thrives on this stuff. He wouldn't be where he is today if he didn't.

[Don Myers]

Well, there is one school of thought that Castro had JFK snuffed after JFK put out a contract on him. Who knows?

[blondee123]

If this truly was our plan, it sure shouldn't be in the news!! Loose lips, etc.....