Israel believes Saddam spoke live in morning TV broadcast

Jerusalem Post ^ | Mar. 20, 2003 | HERB KEINON

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Israeli Foreign Ministry experts believe that Saddam Hussein was speaking live on camera when he addressed the Iraqi nation this morning on television and radio, shortly after the US launched a war against him.

Officials at the ministry's Center for Political Studies reached this conclusion largely based on the fact that Saddam was wearing glasses, and also because the Arabic he spoke was not very sophisticated, suggesting the speech was put together on the spur of the moment.

Had the speech been staged, it is unlikely that Saddam would have been shown wearing glasses, or appearing to read his remarks rather than having them memorized, the officials said.

Saddam also appeared to be under a lot of pressure and more disorganized than usual, when he made the speech, in which he characteristically lashed out at "criminal Zionism" in addition to the United States, it was noted.

In the speech, Saddam accused the United States of committing a "shameful crime" by attacking Iraq and urged the Iraqi people to "go draw your sword" against the enemy.

"We promise you that Iraq, its leadership and its people will stand up to the evil invaders, and we will take them to such limits that they will lose their patience in achieving their plans, which are pushed by criminal Zionism," he said.

[algol]

But why would Saddam have a message pre-taped by one of his doubles?

If Saddam were killed/injured in the attack, they might have got a double to do the speech, but they wouldn't have let him do it live -- no control. It may have been taped 20 minutes before broadcast, but they'd tape it to make sure the double didn't screw up.

[xm177e2]

Had the speech been staged, it is unlikely that Saddam would have been shown wearing glasses, or appearing to read his remarks rather than having them memorized, the officials said.

Saddam also appeared to be under a lot of pressure and more disorganized than usual, when he made the speech, in which he characteristically lashed out at "criminal Zionism" in addition to the United States, it was noted.

He has that KSM "you just woke me up!" look

[steve-b]

Yeah, that does make sense. Point withdrawn.

[jiggyboy]

Freezing has replaced blackness in live feed now that video is routinely compressed and decompressed any number of times during the process, even for local transmission.

A "freeze" happens when the signal is lost or garbled for more than a few frames and the video buffer, which is now RAM, continues to provide the latest good image.

[Grampa Dave]

Now the Whitehouse is agreeing with Israel and some of us that was Soddamned on the tape. I would add an aging, sick and in poor health Saddam. "White House believes it was Saddam Hussein on tape" -- FOXNEWS

[Grampa Dave]

Now the Whitehouse is agreeing with Israel and some of us that was an old Soddamned on the tape. I would add an aging, sick and in poor health Saddam. "White House believes it was Saddam Hussein on tape" -- FOXNEWS

[Grampa Dave]

Now the Whitehouse is agreeing with Israel and some of us that was an old Soddamned on the tape. I would add an aging, sick and in poor health Saddam. "White House believes it was Saddam Hussein on tape" -- FOXNEWS

[Eva]

Thanks for the update. I have been thinking all along that the Saddam that we have been seeing looked far too healthy and virile. How old to you suppose he is?

[KirkandBurke]

Tomorrow's headline, Saddam is alive.

http://www.eastandard.net/headlines/news21032003013.htm

[Grampa Dave]

Sounds like they had an inside track. I hope our elint guys are listening into any conversations this rat has with Baghdad.

Thanks for the quick heads up! Free Republic is amazing.

[oldcomputerguy]

"that was an old Soddamned on the tape."

But was it live or was it Memorex is the question.

[Grampa Dave]

That was a tape, and the question was when did he cut the tape? Before the tomahawking or after?

[DBtoo]

You are right about his eyes. His eyes have a very distinct look that would be hard to duplicate with any of his doubles. I thought it was a double, with the glasses used to obscure the evil in his eyes. Saddam's eyes are downright frightening.

[OPS4]

Because I believe he could have used doubles and left the country days ago and has this image as the psyops front end that we have been trying to bomb and have tracked for over a week.

I guess its far fetched to think we could be on a wild goose chase hu?

Ops4 God Bless America!