Iraqi Official Says Saddam Left Baghdad

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[green team 1999]

Iraqi Official Says Saddam Left Baghdad

07-Apr-2003

U.S. troops think Saddam is alive and hiding in the network of tunnels that stretch 50 miles around Baghdad. But Haitham Rashid Wihaib, his former chief of protocol, says Saddam left Baghdad for his hometown of Tikrit around April 2nd, leaving Iraqi military forces without any central command. "I spent nearly 20 years working for Saddam, latterly seeing him daily while running his private office and daily appointment diary," says Wihaib. "I also got to know his doubles. And the Saddam Hussain we saw shaking hands of his subjects in that extraordinary walkabout on Friday, was definitely a doppelganger." He says walking the streets was the idea of Saddam's son Qusay, and was done to convince the coalition, as well as Iraqi citizens, that his father was still in Baghdad. Last year, Saddam's aides rented 500 houses in Tikrit, where he used to move from one house to another, only spending a few hours in each place.

Wihaib says Saddam left Baghdad in a series of anonymous taxis and battered pickup trucks in a convoy which looked like an ordinary group of fleeing Iraqis. He says, "Saddam has taken his two murderous sons and a handful of key advisors still loyal to him. In Baghdad each local commander has been told to act as he sees fit…Probably by next weekend he will either be dead or captured or will have fled his ravaged country." Saddam has already moved his money into Swiss and Asian banks.

Wihaib says Saddam's first wife, Sajida, and their three daughters and grandchildren, are already staying with the Iraqi ambassador in Syria. His latest wife, Iman, has been sent to Jordan. Saddam has told his bodyguards to shoot him if he's about to be captured.

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[gcruse]

I think I'll wait for someone at least as reliable as Debka [cough] before believing this.

[LS]

If the rumors are true, II Marine Expeditionary Force is outside Tikrit. Now.

[thatdewd]

Wihaib says Saddam left Baghdad in a series of anonymous taxis and battered pickup trucks in a convoy

Dang, how many pieces was he in?

[green team 1999]

at dreamland they have at least two news sources to back it up unlike debka.

[visualops]

anonymous taxis

that really sounds funny to me.

[green team 1999]

i got a bad feeling by the time us troops surround tikrit saddam will be gone and will reappear on syria or lybia.
if i`m right or wrong is on record at this posting.

[A CA Guy]

"Iraqi Official Says Saddam Left Baghdad"

I think more than that has happened. I think he is dead and has assumed cave temperature.

[thatdewd]

Yeah, I'd bet he's in Syria, and has been for a few days.

[AmericanMade1776]

Sounds like a load of manure to me. I am going with the Army intelligence, I think Saddam is still in hiding in those tunnels.

[scott7278]

IMHO, he's left the earth.

[thatdewd]

anonymous taxis

Sounds like a Frank Zappa album.

[gcruse]

Suzy? Suzy Creamcheese?

[Procyon]

anonymous taxis

newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you a-waay.

-- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper Album

[SengirV]

As if that walk-about was even real. Everyone was wearing jackets in 100 degree temps, and the trees had no leaves. Pure BS. Also, it was the Iraqi dis-information minister who started the whole "a farmer shot down an apache" knowing full well they already had a pre recording of Saddam mentioning it. Pure BS that the addle brained news folks eat up with a spoon. Heaven forbid their teleprompter goes out and they actually have to think.

[sheik yerbouty]

"Do you love it? Do you hate it? There it is the way you made it..."

[JustPiper]

Dang, how many pieces was he in?

In an urn mayhaps?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Actually Whitley Gilbert ADifferentWorld.com confirmed that Saddam has been given refuge at Hillman College by Douglas Wilder.

[jerrymdss]

if he goes to syria or lybia they wull go after him...

[the rifleman]

If he has fled and turns up somewhere, I wonder how the average Iraqi Arab will feel. They sacrificed while he ran away with the money. Some martyr. Perhaps they wont mind if we stick around then. If he is there he'll eventually begin to stink and someone will point it out.