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Mystery over Saddam as battle rages - (Saddam REtargeted?)
MSNBC ^ | 8 April, 2003

Posted on 04/08/2003 7:47:58 AM PDT by Happy2BMe

Mystery over Saddam as battle rages
Image: Buildings in the al-Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad lie in ruins Monday after the U.S. airstrike.
Buildings in the al-Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad lie in ruins Monday after the U.S. airstrike.
It's unclear whether Saddam Hussein was killed when an American bomber dropped four bombs on a site in Baghdad. NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reports.
   
NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES
    April 8 —   As U.S. officials tried to determine whether Saddam Hussein survived a massive bombing in Baghdad, the battle for control of the Iraqi capital raged Tuesday with American forces blasting government targets and foiling an apparent Iraqi counterattack. A U.S. warplane dropped four bunker-buster bombs and blasted a smoking crater 60 feet deep at a building Monday in the capital where U.S. officials believed the Iraqi president was meeting with at least one of his sons and other members of his inner circle.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: decapitation; saddam; sons
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To: Happy2BMe
Hint: Check the palace toilets for pubes. I'd hate to have that job.
21 posted on 04/08/2003 8:11:21 AM PDT by nomorecameljocks
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To: ConservativeMan55
JDAM SADDAM!
22 posted on 04/08/2003 8:11:23 AM PDT by Adder
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To: sharktrager
"Separately, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reported that the investigation could be hampered because U.S. officials do not possess Saddam’s DNA."

Oh, I'm sure we can track down one of his mistresses who hung on to a stained blue burka. :-)

23 posted on 04/08/2003 8:12:58 AM PDT by Coop (God bless our troops!)
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To: ConservativeMan55
"Brett Bauer was reporting about the secret Jaguar phone that we used. I'm sure that if the Pentagon was leaking this kind of information, they are SURE they got him."

This may be part of the confirmation that we did indeed get Saddam. The time from the bombing to when the story broke was several hours. It is possible that after a period of time there was no activity on the Jaguar phone system from Saddam, which might have been a clue that he is not answering his phone for some reason.

24 posted on 04/08/2003 8:13:14 AM PDT by CatOwner
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To: CatOwner
"Can you hear me now?"
25 posted on 04/08/2003 8:15:08 AM PDT by js1138
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To: Happy2BMe
Urban Renewal.
26 posted on 04/08/2003 8:15:14 AM PDT by Starrgaizr
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To: alloysteel; All
Saddam's Inner Circle

Getting smaller, and smaller, and smaller . .

I found out what "Jaguar" means.

27 posted on 04/08/2003 8:16:43 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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To: smith288
[Watch the Abu-Dhabi film of the target...there is a fat man who is running towards the scene crying and then hugs another man in obvious sadness. Now it could be his 16 yr old pregnant wife was in there but this fat man look astonishingly like the fat man in the Saddam Walk-about. If you see both videos, you will see what I mean.]

That was my first thought when saw that man last night sobbing. He looked quite familiar.
28 posted on 04/08/2003 8:17:53 AM PDT by 4Godsoloved..Hegave
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To: alloysteel
Last night when I heard them talking about the phones I thought it was stupid for us to be blabbing about this. Now, if he is alive, he won't be using those phones so that we can track him!
29 posted on 04/08/2003 8:18:00 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama
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To: Happy2BMe
Any online video of this?
30 posted on 04/08/2003 8:18:07 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (God Reigns!)
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To: js1138

31 posted on 04/08/2003 8:19:57 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (HOLLYWOOD:Ask not what U can do for your country, ask what U can do for Iraq!)
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To: smith288
Sharp eyes......

These two guys were definitely in a dither. Strangely, the clip was omitted from the Fox loop after initial airing. I Wanted to look closely but it has been dropped.

Note Also the guy smoking a cigerette. He is very coldy assesing the situation.....I wonder whose side he's on?

32 posted on 04/08/2003 8:21:06 AM PDT by bert (Don't Panic !)
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To: rwfromkansas; Happy2BMe; smith288
Any online video of this?

Hey, if so, I'd like to see it too ! I didn't know they had it recorded . . .

33 posted on 04/08/2003 8:21:57 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: Happy2BMe
Jag UUU arr as in a south american cat pronunced with a Brit accent
34 posted on 04/08/2003 8:23:23 AM PDT by bert (Don't Panic !)
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To: js1138
Dig

Why bother

Ain't nothing going to be moving at the bottom of that pile
35 posted on 04/08/2003 8:23:59 AM PDT by uncbob ( building tomorrow)
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To: ErnBatavia
Debka Cosby? She's wrong more often than right.
36 posted on 04/08/2003 8:27:55 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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To: Coop
We do have Chemical Ali's DNA.
37 posted on 04/08/2003 8:29:07 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
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To: Happy2BMe
Just pave over the crater and call it "The Tomb of the Unknown Tyrants."
38 posted on 04/08/2003 8:33:48 AM PDT by The_Victor
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To: Happy2BMe
JDAM - Made in America, tested in Iraq.

http://www.AmericanOwned.com
39 posted on 04/08/2003 8:37:07 AM PDT by americanowned_com
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To: Happy2BMe
Saddam is a savvy survivor. The Iraqis are not that stupid. They know very well by now that we can find and target them very quickly.

While I really hope 60 of them were just sitting there dining out waiting to be bombed, I think there are other possiblities.

I have not seen this mentioned as a possibility , but what if that restaurant just had a concealed entrance to an underground tunnel complex leading to a distant bunker that has its own second exit?

Whatever leaders entered the restaurant would just be laughing their asses off.

40 posted on 04/08/2003 8:38:16 AM PDT by S.O.L.
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