Update on Exclusive Report: "Internet Rumors Fly ... Saddam Was Killed by American First Strike !"

NewsPundit.net ^ | 3/20/2003 | Douglas Oliver

[Truth29]

Of course, feeding the rumor could be part of PSYOPS. There's no way to tell.

[js1138]

"There is no doubt that we were the first news service"

FR isn't a news service? How many FReepers consider this their first and primary source for news?

[xp38]

Saddam has entered that netherworld of "maybe dead" that Osama occupies.

[DryFly]

I haven't seen "Saddam's" speech in full. Does he reference the date or anything to suggest it was done after the decapitation strike?

[ThinkDifferent]

Very convincing logic and I fervently hope you're right. I wonder if this wasn't as unplanned as we were told. Taking out Saddam in a single surgical strike would certainly create "shock and awe"...

[bert]

It doesn't matter. It is becoming a[[atent that if enough people in Iraq begin to wonder, they will begin to act as if he is dead. The Troops will go AWOL and leaders won't care.

[P-Marlowe]

He's dead Jim.

[the_doc]

I saw a report last week that we had Iraqi and U.S. agents and even Special Forces troops already in Baghdad (again, as early as last week!) looking for the opportunity to take Saddam out as the VERY FIRST ACTION OF THE WAR.

[CCWoody]

I did see that report, or a similar one. What exactly do you think they meant when they said "special forces"?

[the_doc]

I don't know what they meant by "special forces," but it was a report coming from the Kurdish north, as I recall.

[the_doc]

I didn't see the entire address, but I saw TV reports that it seemed to be a videotape. There was a freeze-frame error which the network guys said did not appear to be a satellite transmission glitch.

[dixierose]

How many FReepers consider this their first and primary source for news?

I, for one, keep a browser on FR all day...hitting refresh as often as I can to get the newest stuff.

Now I just hope my boss doesn't find out :-)

[BamaFan]

You have given this a lot of thought, but I'll wager that you are completely wrong. I'd bet that: 1) SH is still alive and 2) the video of him is exactly what the Iraqi's say it is, him, taped after the strike.

[Cassanova Frankenstein]

If this true.....This is going to be rrreeeaaalllyyy bad news to all those leftist pukes who have an affection for murderous psychopathic dictators.

Sucks to be them.

[hunter112]

"He has joined the celestial choir"

Celestial choir? More likely baying with the hounds of hell!

[the_doc]

Maybe I'm wrong. But I wonder where Saddam's wounds were. They were not visible at all. He showed no signs of any problem. He even seemed to have good mobility moving around in the chair, with no incapacity or even wincing.

And if Travis McGee's theory is correct--i.e., his theory that Saddam was deeper in the bunker than the guys who got killed, then how did they get him out of the rubble so quickly and treat his wounds and do his make-up for the camera and do the videotape and then broadcast it?

Maybe there was an escape tunnel leading out elsewhere. (That's the only way he could have gotten out from under several tons of concrete and steel so quickly.) But rather than continuing to invoke such "maybes," it makes more sense to me to theorize that he is dead--which would automatically explain why he is incommunicado and would also explain the fact that the speech was completely generic ranting (taped in advance).

I prefer to believe that our missiles and bombs were correctly selected weapons for the job. (If they were, he's dead.)

We'll wait and see.

[Travis McGee]

You can bet that the entrances to his bunker complexes are well disguised, and that he never lingers there, where the bombs will fall. The living spaces of the bunkers will be well distant horizontally from the entrances, and in order not to be buried alive, there will be multiple exits.

[Osage Orange]

He's either really, really dead...or he's just dead and doesn't know it yet. Either way...he's dead. :)

FRegards,

[razorback-bert]

"Saddam Hussein Denies He's alive."