Saddam 'will fall in 15 days'(prepared for :luxury in exile")

News24 ^ | March 30, 2003 | AFP

[FairOpinion]

Berlin - The Iraqi regime will fall within the next two weeks, a former aide to President Saddam Hussein, who claims to be in daily contact with senior Iraqi officials, told the German weekly Bild am Sonntag.

"I'm convinced that the regime will fall within the next 15 days," said Hatiham Rashid Wihaib on the 11th day of the US-led war against Iraq.

"Saddam knows that it is only a question of time. That's why he has prepared an exile in luxury," Wihaib added.

The paper did not say where Saddam's exile would be.

Wihaib, Saddam's former protocol chief, who is now 52, settled in London in 1995, according to Bild am Sonntag.

"Saddam Hussein wants to meet up with his family as soon as Baghdad has fallen," he said. "If that's no longer possible, he asked his body guards to shoot him because he does not want to be arrested alive under any circumstances."

The Iraqi leader has said that he wanted to die in his country. - Sapa-AFP

[FairOpinion]

I hope the predicition is true -- about Saddam falling in 2 weeks, although I would rather see him dead, than in exile.

[AntiGuv]

A lot of these people were the same as those convinced the regime would fall in 15 minutes...

[CaptIsaacDavis]

Whatever happened to the report that his first wife and family was fleeing to Syria?

[demosthenes the elder]

I hope that this is true.
It is always a good idea to leave your anemy an "out"
Otherwise he'll fight like he has nothing to lose and no tomorrow to lose it in.
That translates into a longer, nastier, bloodier war.

[FairOpinion]

His family probably is in Paris by now, via Syria.

Arafat's wife and kid are in Paris too.

It's a place that is very friendly towards terrorists and murdering dictators.

I bet if Saddam went there, France would refuse to extradite him.

[Political Junkie Too]

Saddam 'will fall in 15 days'

If his rigid corpse is leaning up against a wall somewhere, maybe a little bunker busting will rattle things up and he'll tip over sooner.

-PJ

[truth_seeker]

"The Iraqi leader has said that he wanted to die in his country. - Sapa-AFP"

I'm sure that the "morality" of islam and the arab nation wish him to spend his remaining days in luxury-exile.

The families of tortured and killed Iraqis probably have different ideas.

It has been reported that the US would prefer him dead from the warfare, rather than some other outcome, such as a trial.

Using Nuremburg as an historical benchmark, he should be tried, convicted and hanged for crimes against humanity. He could get his wish, to die in Iraq.

Just keep the French and Germans away from the trial.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I do not believe this for a minute. Why would Saddam ask for his bodyguards to shoot him, if capture is inevitable? Why would he trust them to do this at any given time?

[AntiGuv]

I bet if Saddam went there, France would refuse to extradite him.

Do you suppose the French would refuse before or after they elected him Président??

[paul51]

I'm convinced that the regime will fall within the next 15 days

Why is this war taking sooo long. It's already been over a week. What a complete failure. All Rumsfeld's fault. Poor planning. Blah, Blah, Blah

[FairOpinion]

"The Iraqi leader has said that he wanted to die in his country. - Sapa-AFP"

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That's just propaganda. He has absolutely no intention of dying. I bet he has a dozen tunnels that help him get out of the country.

There was some speculation before the war, that he was already gone. I wouldn't be surprised, maybe that's why we haven't seen him.

I wouldn't be surprised, that way, if the Iraqis would miraculously win, he could sneak back in, pop up, as if he had never been gone, and if things go as expected with a decisive US victory sooner or later, he is not risking his life. I think he is an egomaniac and values his own life enough, that he may just do something like that. We probably killed one of his doubles. Maybe the leak was deliberate about his purported location. Maybe we only got the doubles of Saddam and his son, who also has several doubles.
(Removing tin-foil hat now, but on the other hand...)

[Davea]

"His family probably is in Paris by now, via Syria. Arafat's wife and kid are in Paris too. It's a place that is very friendly towards terrorists and murdering dictators. I bet if Saddam went there, France would refuse to extradite him."

If that turns out to be the case then we could declare war on France and watch it surrender in 15 seconds setting a new world's record. We then go in, kill Saddam and to add insult to injury we return France back to the French and the rest of Europe.

[FairOpinion]

Maybe we could give France to Spain, after all Spain is supporting us.

[paul51]

Listing to some of the so called news reports, one would think we have already lost miserably. Even worse, it almost sounds like wishful thinking. I'm thoroughly disgusted.

[fire_eye]

Listing to some of the so called news reports, one would think we have already lost miserably. Even worse, it almost sounds like wishful thinking. I'm thoroughly disgusted.

You just noticed this?

I've been sitting and fuming at the media for days, now. Almost without exception, they're as hungry as jackals for any piece of news that they can possibly twist and distort into some sort of innuendo that there's a "problem" somewhere... *any* sort of problem... *anywhere*.

The news conferences with Fleischer and Rumsfeld are especially telling - the leftist scum just sit there and try every line they can think of, to get somebody to say something, *anything*, that admits some sort of problem. Almst every question they ask is of the "When did you stop beating your wife" variety.

However... maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I think the American public is onto them... the mainstream media is becoming a casualty of this war (although unfortunately a bloodless one)... the infosluts (male and female) are just talking to themselves, any more...

[Unknowing]

I think that Saddam might go into secret exile, but I think that it is important to kill him and his sons.

[Russell Scott]

These guys are right in line with what I am predicting.

[Fighter@heart]

I AGREE. THE VERY THOUGHT OF THIS BA$TARD LIVING THE LIFE OF LUXURY AFTER ALL THE MISERY HE AND HIS SONS HAVE INFLICTED UPON THEIR PEOPLE JUST SICKENS ME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER OUTCOME THAN THEIR TIMELY DEMISE (if it hasn't already occurred) I pray the people of Iraq "take care of business" if we fail to kill these evil ba$tards. Exile should not be a viable option.