Saddam Heading for Syria?

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[Salvation]

Saddam heading for Syria?
Report says dictator making preparations to flee Baghdad

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Posted: March 27, 2003
5:00 p.m. Eastern

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has made extensive preparations to flee Iraq and has already smuggled his family out to Syria, according to a report in the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

Just days before the bombing of Baghdad began, says the paper, Saddam's first wife, Sajida – mother of his heirs Uday and Qusay – fled to Damascus with three truckloads of possessions and 60 bodyguards.

In addition, the dictator reportedly has been selling off property and valuables to raise money for his exile.

Saddam's former protocol minister, Haitham Rashid Wihaib, told newspapers in London that Hussein's family members are staying with Iraq's ambassador to Syria.

According to the Telegraph report, several of his most senior lieutenants, including his deputy Tariq Aziz, also have sent their families on ahead to Syria before the fall of Baghdad.

The families were able to slip away because they had been staying close to the border for several weeks, avoiding allied monitoring of movements from Baghdad.

They originally had planned to flee to Amman, Jordan, where many senior members of the Iraqi regime have homes and bank accounts. But Saddam reportedly does not trust the Jordanians, who have let U.S. troops into the country.

"He knows it is only a matter of time before he is defeated, and he has made sure that everything is in place for a very comfortable exile," Wihaib told reporters.

If his escape route is cut, Wihaib claims, Saddam wants his most trusted bodyguards to kill him.

"Saddam will never be captured alive," Wihaib said.

Meanwhile, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said today the United States and Britain would never be able to subdue the whole country and warned Syria might be the next target on Washington's list.

"For sure, the United States is a superpower that can occupy a relatively small country. ... The United States and Britain will not be able to control all of Iraq. There will be much tougher resistance," Assad said in an interview with Lebanon's as-Safir newspaper.

"As long as Israel exists, the threat [of a U.S. attack on Syria] is there. As long as there is an aggression on an Arab country and a war on our borders, the danger is there. ... But worry does not translate to fear."

[jwfiv]

Exile on main street Damascus? No way.

He gets a one way ticket across the River Styx.

After the murder of Britsh and American POWs? The only exile this evil cracker gets is eternity in Hell.

[Salvation]

**All this assumes that the Iraqi people don't get to them first and they end up like old Benito. Remember too that the road to Syria mostly goes through Kurdistan, and what doesn't goes through the western dessert, now populated by US and allied troops. If they try to bug out via aircraft, fixed or rotary wing, keep in mind that AWACS is on station, just waiting for anything to lift off from an Iraqi airfield. Those weapons controllers and the fighter pilots they direct are probably salivating at the chance to kill something that's airborne. And if he takes a land vehicle, the controllers on board JSTARS are equally eager I'm sure.**

Sounds like they have it covered.

But in a box on a ship? Hopefully dead in a box on a ship!

[John H K]

If Saddam wishes to flee to the remnants of the Ba'ath Party in Syria

The Syrian Ba'ath and the Iraqi Ba'ath have always hated each other. Sort of a Stalinist/Trotskyist thing; hated each other more than they hated capitalists.

[f.Christian]

'Iraqis Smiraqis' ... what kinda vodka is that ?

[Mike Darancette]

It would be fun is Special Ops captured him on the road

It would be more fun if the Kurds caught him.

[mombonn]

So, what do you thin?

I thin he should become fish food, if any fish is so unfortunate as to happen upon his shreds. Otherwise, he should become worm food, if any worm should become . . . shall I go on?

[Salvation]

**shall I go on?**

I thin I get the picture!

[dancusa]

Chirac has a villa on the French Riveria reserved for Saddam.

[mombonn]

LOL

[Kadric]

Not me, the only way to truely get this over is to show Saddam ala Mussolini. If not we'll see the same thing as what we've got with Ben Ladin. If they have orders to kill him I would bet they also have orders to destroy the body to prevent us being able to prove he's dead.

[LonePalm]

Saddam Captured on the Road to Damascus?

Sounds like a 'come to Jesus' moment.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[vigilante2]

saddams dead!

[AmericanVictory]

As we have said before, as a practical matter, it is inevitable. Syria is among the set of three that is the second Axis of Evil.

[Kadric]

Along the same thoughts but for differnt reasons. I don't think Hitler thought the allies would be to concerned, he just couldn't stand the thoughts of the Russians displaying him as a trophy. Saddam on the other hand knows thet if the USA and British can not prove him dead it will create big problems for years to come. His loyalist will be harder to get under control. They can just say he has released a statement every couple weeks or months. The civilians will always have the thought he may return.

[lawdude]

"In addition, the dictator reportedly has been selling off property and valuables to raise money for his exile. "


Well, there went the credibility of this article. Saddam has no need for a friggin yard sale! He has millions, if not billions in banks all over the world. He can retire to Gay Paree in fine shape.

[reagan_fanatic]

"In addition, the dictator reportedly has been selling off property and valuables to raise money for his exile. "

Bullsh*t Alert...Saddam is one of the richest men in the World. Money is not a problem.

[Rocky]

But in a box on a ship? Hopefully dead in a box on a ship!

Not in a car, not on a ship,
Not in a plane, can't give us the slip.
Not with his sons, not with his wife,
Not in the day, not in the night.
You can't get away from justice, Saddam,
Not this time, says Uncle Sam.