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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[thatdewd]

Suzy? Suzy Creamcheese?

Vito said she split for Berkeley...Protest-marching Styrofoam...

[NonValueAdded]

IMO, Tikrit will be the final battle and this was fairly predictable. If he is anywhere, Tikrit is it. Saddam is too poison for most countries to hold but he could find refuge in France, Russia, or North Korea. Otherwise, we'll go in and get him.

What I'd like to see is the webcam view into that room full of Saddam look-a-likes pooping bricks and wondering aloud about why they chose their job. Sort of like an Elvis impersonator convention gone horribly bad.

[John Lenin]

[the rifleman]

Average Iraqi Arab = Elite Republican Guard

[green team 1999]

syria got lots of supplies from russia,a client state,

[visualops]

...Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone...

[Republic of Texas]

RE: the Apache. (BTW, is it politically incorrect to call them Apache's?) Thank you for mentioning that. I thought that from the beginning, but so far I have heard no "expert" even raise it as a possibility.

If you think about it, at some point during the war, an Apache, or Blackhawk or whatever is going to go down. Even accidently. If you fly enough missions it will happen. So they pre-record tapes where Saddam mentions it, and as soon as it happens, Baghdad Bob announces it was good 'ol farmer Achmed who shot it down with a musket left over from the last British invasion. Then, a few days later, play the Saddam tape, and you have, our Dear Leader, sorry, we haven't gotten to him yet, Uncle Saddam making "current" statements.

I don't know much about psy-ops, but this is as plausible as some things I've heard proffered on TV lately.

[Republic of Texas]

If he does turn up, will ANY capitalist hating, socialist news organization ask him HOW he managed to turn NOTHING into $7 BILLION in just 30 years?

Why is it the left only hate wealthy people who earned their money legally instead of starving millions of innocent people to get it?

[The Lake City Gar]

Whitley Strieber ????

What's next? Information from NewsMax.com? Debka? WorldNetDaily? Weekly World News??

[Smedley]

Guess Saddam blew outta town

[Fabozz]

"BTW, is it politically incorrect to call them Apaches?"

Nope. Army helicopters are named after Indian tribes partially to honor brave foes but more importantly to honor the many Indian scouts of all tribes who fought alongside the Army. Whenever a new chopper type is named, the Army seeks permission from the tribe in question, and elders from that tribe attend the dedication ceremony.

[Rockitz]

If he truly has left, it was probably with that Russian delegation on it's way to Syria.

[gcruse]

 whitley strieber is baghdad bob?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Centcom thinks they just did him in , in Baghdad!

Four bunkerbusters on a traget of opportunity!

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[Grampa Dave]

Where in the hell do these Freepers find these off the wall so called experts?

[gcruse]

This is the second time in days that I have seen a war-altering, stunning report from an obscure website with no ties to news services. And posted without disclaimers at that. Incredible.

[green team 1999]

will be not surprise if saddam was in the trunk of the russian car.

[snopercod]

Another Iraqi offical said "no way" on Fox tonight. Former protocol minister, IIRC.

[snopercod]

Sounds like a Frank Zappa album.

You mean "Uncle Meat"?