Saddam’s Thai gem spree hints at getaway plan

The Sunday Times ^ | March 9, 2003 | Jon Swain

[MadIvan]

Saddam may have decided it is better to go to a French seaside heaven rather than be sent to Hell.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[RS]

"He knows that as long as he is not shown on television, captured or dead, the Iraqi people will stay afraid of him..."

I'm sure we will have a few captured or dead doubles to show...

[InterceptPoint]

Saddam may have decided it is better to go to a French seaside heaven rather than be sent to Hell.

I agree, and France should welcome their good buddy with welcome arms. I always thought that he would bail.

[TADSLOS]

Two years from now (assuming he's still alive): "What do you mean it's Diamondique?"

[Militiaman7]

I vote for this option

[Dog Gone]

There will be nowhere that Saddam can hide in safety after we topple the regime and expose his crimes against his own people.

I don't even think France would harbor him.

And, he ain't the type to live in caves for the rest of his life. He's got a real problem.

[lafroste]

Hmmm.... Millions of dollars in diamonds, spirited away in the dead of night... This sounds like the beginning of a good movie

After the despot is killed, the jewells are gone! Enter the hero, a rapscallion if there ever was one, and the fun begins to get the diamonds, score with the babe (there HAS to be a babe) and kill the bad guys. What fun.

[Teacher317]

butbutbutbut Saddam is supposed to be using that money for food and medicine for the Iraqi people. I can't wait until ABCNBCCBSCNN get a hold of this and show his duplicitous nature to the world...

What's that? They won't? Huh! Imagine that.

[steveo]

Saddam may have decided it is better to go to a French seaside heaven rather than be sent to Hell.

At least he could swim I guess.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[Domestic Church]

I'm wondering what kind of plastic surgery he's had in preparation for his new life on the french riviera.

[Kahuna]

Actually I think that George & Tony's methodically slow build-up to attack can be compared to "Chinese water torture" for old Sadaam. He's played the appeasers like a fidel, however he realizes that a couple of poisonous snakes are loose in his underground bungalow.

Always look forward to your posts Ivan and we have a mini Union Jack on our state flag. Bless the Queen, bless Tony Blair, bless Jack Straw and bless Great Britain.

[Kahuna]

not necessarily in that order!

[OldFriend]

Chirac will invite Saddam to live with him.

[MindBender26]

The Times is very well wired into this story. This, plus the absent Powell brief, etc.

MI-6 is doing a good job of "leaking."

GSTQ TTFN

[anniegetyourgun]

Too late...I want him dead. And where he's going, those diamonds won't do him any good.

[NewLand]

"I can't wait until ABCNBCCBSCNN get a hold of this and show his duplicitous nature to the world..."

Remember that song by Aerosmith...

Dream On...Dream On...Dream On...dream until your dreams come true!

[mingwah]

What do ya wanna bet that in a year we will see a picture in some french rag with Clinton and Saddam sitting at a cafe in France chatting it up drinking lattes with a couple of french models hanging on them???

[11B3]

"And where he's going, those diamonds won't do him any good."

They don't take U-Hauls in Hell. And they don't take Gem Express, either.