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.

for information and discusion only,not for profit etc,etc.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

NBC says he is (was ) in Baghdad and they just dropped 4 2000 lb bunkerbuster bombs on him and his sons and others!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See post #41. Used a B-1 bomber on Saddam in Baghdad!

[First_Salute]

Has Saddam's (Government) Made a Run For It?, posted April 2, 2003 by ewing.

Reply 2: "Saddam & Co. are southwest of Tikrit."

[green team 1999]

ok,we have to wait for the results

[green team 1999]

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 8 — A U.S. Air Force warplane dropped four enormous bombs Monday on a residential neighborhood where “extremely reliable” intelligence information indicated that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his two sons were staying, senior administration officials told NBC News. The sources would not rule out the possibility that Saddam could have moved before the planes struck, but they said it was highly likely that he and his sons were dead if they were still there when the bombs hit.

saddam could have moved before the bombing,maybe,maybe.

[Shaka]

Yeah...he left Baghdad alright! In about 150 different pieces and about 150 different ways!

DEBKA strikes again..late to the party I guess.

Anyone have the Awwwwww Geeeez guy???

[livis_dad]

Whitley Strieber ???? What's next? Information from NewsMax.com? Debka? WorldNetDaily? Weekly World News?? Ok, that's all I had to read. I almost thought it could be true. Maybe the next report will describe Saddam's alien abduction in detail.

[gcruse]

Heh. Talk about damning with faint praise, bless your heart.

[Pro-Bush]

Whitley is great and all..But I think he should stick to UFOs and Alien implants.

[noexcuses]

Iraqi Official Says Saddam Left Baghdad

That's another way of putting it.

[green team 1999]

if that idiot arnett is doing some reports?,
why not Whitley

[Pro-Bush]

if that idiot arnett is doing some reports?, why not Whitley

Because Whitley is a paranormal researcher, not a professional reporter..As for Arnett, ask MSNBC why they hired him? He lost repect years ago. By the way, I own Whitley's Book, "Confirmation", and think he is great at what he does best...Art Bell Show, UFO Conferences, History Channel specials, and as an Author.

[green team 1999]

try his book WAR DAY ,and is not about ufo`s or aliens.
i check his website everyday, drudge too.

[SengirV]

(BTW, is it politically incorrect to call them Apache's?)

Give me a break. They are called Apache helicopters. So if I wanted to talk about them in the plural I should call them - "an undetermined number of helicopters who's designation is 'Apache' " or Apache's?

What color is the text you are reading? Black or real dark charcoal?

[First_Salute]

Saddam has told his bodyguards to shoot him if he's about to be captured.

Bump.

[snopercod]

I think he may well have been captured earlier than reported. My reasons are in this thread: Indications Saddam Was Not In Hiding, But Captive (DEBKAfile)

[First_Salute]

First mention of Saddam's capture was a post to FR that related a story sent stateside from a news source in the region that reported some Kurds announcing it.