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Saddam Heading for Syria?
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| 3-27-03
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Posted on 03/27/2003 5:42:52 PM PST by Salvation
Saddam heading for Syria?
Report says dictator making preparations to flee Baghdad
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."
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: coward; family; flee; iraq; run; saddam; syria
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So, what do you thin?
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:42:52 PM PST
by
Salvation
To: Salvation
thin
think?
2
posted on
03/27/2003 5:44:30 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
"Saddam flees to Debka"
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:45:12 PM PST
by
Maedhros
(All your Basra are belong to U.S.)
To: All
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:45:21 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Maedhros
Maybe we should do some more hunting, exploring, etc.
Boom!
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:46:01 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
If the stories that the Iraqi's are giving signs of surrender and negotiation are correct, I suspect it might be because the regime is trying to stall us.
To: Maedhros
It would be fun is Special Ops captured him on the road.
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:46:40 PM PST
by
agincourt1415
(Supreme Tribunal)
To: Salvation
I doubt even Syria would put up with the headache of harboring Saddam. They couldn't afford the aggravation we would heap upon them.
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:46:41 PM PST
by
wimpycat
('Nemo me impune lacessit')
To: agincourt1415
**It would be fun is Special Ops captured him on the road.**
What a picture!
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:47:43 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
If he goes to Syria, so do we.
We should probably go anyway. Syria is also a Bathist State and is liable to covertly support the return of Bathists to power in Iraq in the future.
Let's kill this snake and cut it's head off to make sure.
So9
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:48:00 PM PST
by
Servant of the Nine
(We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
To: Registered
In addition, the dictator reportedly has been selling off property and valuables to raise money for his exile. This has potential. Can you top the image of Saddam in the SUV seat?
To: Salvation
Is that where the funeral services are?
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:48:12 PM PST
by
mystery-ak
(Saddam...your time is almost up..my hubby and son are on their way to kick your a$$ out of Baghdad!)
To: All
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:48:34 PM PST
by
AnnaZ
To: Salvation
One night, he gets a JADM up his butt in Syria.
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:48:46 PM PST
by
demlosers
(resetting the record)
To: Salvation
Saddam wants his most trusted bodyguards to kill him. "Saddam will never be captured alive," Wihaib said. Works for me!
MKM
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:49:33 PM PST
by
mykdsmom
To: agincourt1415
It would be fun is Special Ops captured him on the road.Saddam Captured on the Road to Damascus?
LOL
So9
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:49:40 PM PST
by
Servant of the Nine
(We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
To: Thinkin' Gal
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:50:28 PM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Salvation
If Saddam wishes to flee to the remnants of the Ba'ath Party in Syria, he would want to make his move before all travel is cut off. It would already be near impossible to fly or drive, and he is too old to go on foot at night.
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:50:29 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts: Proofs establish links)
To: Salvation
"Saddam will never be captured alive," Wihaib said.
True Statement.
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:50:39 PM PST
by
mtbrandon49
("Beware the fury of a patient man")
To: Salvation
We heard 2-3 months ago that some of Saddam's WMDs had been spirited there, so it makes sense. However, I do not see any way he makes it out of Baghdad, the first three letters of which tell the tale: he's in the BAG, dad. But, the desperadoes always try desperate tricks.
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posted on
03/27/2003 5:50:41 PM PST
by
Migraine
(...that really goes against migraine!)
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