Fox News: Central Command says Saddam is procuring US uniforms, ordering his soldiers to wear them

Fox News | March 6, 2003

[Dont Mention the War]

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[livius]

Saddam imitates whoever he needs to at a given time. Plus he's known to be very fond of Hitler. Not only from the antisemitism point of view, but fond of Hitler's techniques. I believe Saddam even refers to himself as the "Struggler," intending this as a reference to Mein Kampf, which is means "My Struggle."

[TexKat]

Saddam is real big on this double double, double double double stuff isn't he?

[CounterCounterCulture]

For the record, I was pulling for the Angels. :-)

[pabianice]

Go

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/855890/posts

[Chemist_Geek]

Great, now we're going to have to ask everybody, "Who won the World Series?"

The Detroit Red Wings, of course.

[Indy Pendance]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,80332,00.html

Official: Iraqi Soldiers Ordered to Commit Atrocities While Dressed as U.S. Troops

WASHINGTON — Iraq is acquiring military uniforms "identical down to the last detail"
to those worn by American and British forces and plans to use them to shift blame for
atrocities, a senior U.S. official said Thursday.

Jim Wilkinson, director of strategic communication at
Central Command in Tampa, Fla., said Saddam Hussein
had ordered procurement of the uniforms, but he would not
say how this was known.

"Saddam intends to issue these uniforms to Fedayeen
Saddam troops who would wear them when conducting
reprisals against the Iraqi people so that they could pass
the atrocities off as the work of the United States and the
United Kingdom," Wilkinson said.

The Fedayeen Saddam is a paramilitary force of more than
15,000 founded by Saddam's son Odai in 1994, Wilkinson
said. The unit's members are recruited from areas noted
for loyalty to Saddam.

The Fedayeen Saddam carries out patrols and
anti-smuggling duties and is separate from the regular
Iraqi Army command, Wilkinson said. He said its members
are paid a salary and, while not an elite fighting force, they
deal with unrest during domestic emergencies and report
directly to Saddam.

"Saddam Hussein is clearly getting ready to wage a
campaign of fear and disinformation against those who
seek to disarm him," Wilkinson said, referring to the U.S.
and British forces who would spearhead an invasion.

Efforts to blame U.S. and British invading forces for
atrocities committed by Iraqi troops is among the ploys
Bush administration officials have predicted for weeks.
Wilkinson's statement is the first public mention of a plan
by Saddam to outfit his troops in fake uniforms.

This is among many acts of deception and desperation that
Pentagon officials say they fear Saddam will carry out in an
attempt to turn international opinion against the United
States and Britain.

Other acts suggested by U.S. officials include setting Iraqi
oil fields ablaze and using chemical or biological weapons
against the Iraqi people.

Officials said Bush has not yet decided whether to go to war against Iraq, but there are a
growing number of signs that the U.S. military is nearly ready to launch any attack he may
order.

The Navy, for example, said the hospital ship USNS Comfort has moved from the Indian
Ocean island of Diego Garcia to Bahrain. And the last of the ship's 800 additional medical
staff members were flying there Thursday. The last time it was deployed to the Gulf was
the 1991 Gulf War.

[ohioman]

Saddam must have watched that old movie "The Battle of the Buldge." I guess he fell asleep before the ending.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Wouldn't Iraqi soldiers be more effective in uniforms that resembled Iraqi soil, rocks, and brush?

[breakem]

NAsk em for name, rank, e-mail address and to explain a McNugget.

[Taliesan]

I wonder when that genius Saddam is going to figure out that his main project right now better be a disguise for his own land-locked ass.

[slimer]

Or are his friends the Germans and the French shipping him NATO supplies?

one of the BIG reasons France and Germany are against us going to war is because when it's over, we are going to discover massive amounts of evidence that our so called allies have been stabbing us in the back ever since the embargo was put in place.

[Defiant]

He's a dead man walking. He's still holding out hope for a reprieve from the governor (Chirac?), but he knows in his heart he is out of luck, and he's telling himself that he will go down fighting. Whether he sticks with that or buggers out when the fighting starts remains to be seen.

[aristeides]

. I believe Saddam even refers to himself as the "Struggler," intending this as a reference to Mein Kampf, which is means "My Struggle."

"Struggler", "Mujahid"? Interesting that "Jihad" means the same thing as "Kampf."

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" ..saying that no way is Blix the person for this position as chief inspector and that he is very gullible and easy to trick so he is playing right into Saddam's hands."

I wish Fox would send someone out to the UN with a dollar on a string and videotape how many times Blix tries to pick it up.I also wish they would videotape a hooker meeting her client in Harlem...but,that's another story.

[Bulldogs22]

120lb scrawny arabs. LOL.

[Glenn]

That sounds like a violation of all sorts of rules of warfare to me.

Oh, my! Really? Let's call the UN and tattle on him!

The rules of warfare only apply to whomever isn't in danger.

[L,TOWM]

Too easy...

What is a Rally Monkey? Who is "K-Rod"?

[John123]

"WHAT"S MADONNA"S LAST NAME?!!"

Actually, I have no clue either and I am an 3rd generation American. And I think I am better off for that too. :)

A better question as posed by another poster is when is tax day? Anyone who works in American knows and despises this day.