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Iraqi Official Says Saddam Left Baghdad
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| april-7-2003
| whitley strieber unknowncountry
Posted on 04/07/2003 5:24:43 PM PDT by 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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: decapitation; escape; flee; iraqifreedom; saddamleftbaghdad; syria; undergroundtunnels; warlist
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To: green team 1999
I think I'll wait for someone at least as reliable as Debka [cough] before believing this.
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:28:26 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(If they truly are God's laws, he can enforce them himself.)
To: green team 1999
If the rumors are true, II Marine Expeditionary Force is outside Tikrit. Now.
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:30:04 PM PDT
by
LS
To: green team 1999
Wihaib says Saddam left Baghdad in a series of anonymous taxis and battered pickup trucks in a convoyDang, how many pieces was he in?
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:30:07 PM PDT
by
thatdewd
To: gcruse
at dreamland they have at least two news sources to back it up unlike debka.
To: thatdewd
anonymous taxis
that really sounds funny to me.
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:33:23 PM PDT
by
visualops
(Let's go freeple! Get on the monthly!)
To: thatdewd
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.
To: green team 1999
"Iraqi Official Says Saddam Left Baghdad"
I think more than that has happened. I think he is dead and has assumed cave temperature.
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:34:47 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: green team 1999
Yeah, I'd bet he's in Syria, and has been for a few days.
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:37:40 PM PDT
by
thatdewd
To: green team 1999
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.
To: green team 1999
IMHO, he's left the earth.
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:38:37 PM PDT
by
scott7278
(Four more years! Four more years!)
To: visualops
anonymous taxis Sounds like a Frank Zappa album.
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:40:02 PM PDT
by
thatdewd
To: thatdewd
Suzy? Suzy Creamcheese?
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:42:08 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(If they truly are God's laws, he can enforce them himself.)
To: thatdewd
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
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:43:56 PM PDT
by
Procyon
To: green team 1999
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.
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:43:58 PM PDT
by
SengirV
To: gcruse
"Do you love it? Do you hate it? There it is the way you made it..."
To: thatdewd
Dang, how many pieces was he in?
In an urn mayhaps?
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posted on
04/07/2003 5:44:52 PM PDT
by
JustPiper
(Anti-War Protestors Are The Terrorist's Bodyguard!!!)
To: green team 1999
To: green team 1999
if he goes to syria or lybia they wull go after him...
To: green team 1999
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.
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