Body of Iraqi general found - executed

Dagens Eko (Swedish Radio News) ^ | 20th April 2003 | Bengt Therner

[ScaniaBoy]

Reported on Swedish Radio News 5.45 PM (GMT+1):

After a two day search among the countless graves outside the Abu Greb prison 75 km west of Baghdad the headless body of the former Iraqi airforce general Ali Hussein Habib was found in a shallow grave.

The body was identified by Habib's widow and brother in-law, Abu Haldoun. Habib was a retired air-force general who had been one of the persons in charge of the Iraqi chemical weapons program.

General Habib was one of the few Iraqis who eventually agreed to be interviewed by UN weapons inspectors without any Iraqi government agents present.

The day before the bombings of Baghdad started Habib was arrested and taken away. Five days ago the family received a tip to look for his body among the graves outside the prison.

Bengt Terner (reporter for Swedish Radio News in Baghdad) has tried to locate the families of those Iraqis who cooperated with the weapons inspectors.

(Translated from Swedish)

[ScaniaBoy]

Points to be made for dense people (like Hans Blix):

1) In a dictatorship you need to be almost suicidal to cooperate with groups considered to be enemies of the state.

2) The likelihood that Hans Blix would have received any information this way is almost nill.

Question: If there was nothing to hide, why the secrecy??

[lunatic12]

Dead men tell no tales.

[friendly]

Beneath the pseudo-bureaucratic guise, make no mistake but that Hans Blix is a vicious murderer.

[Bernard]

Probably a suicide - not an execution. He was a big fan of Vince Foster and couldn't stand the bad news, or the stress.

[mewzilla]

The rest of the 55 still alive better turn themselves in to us real quick...They're safer with us....

[ScaniaBoy]

I agree. Remember his comments about the Iraqi who tried to give evidence to the inspectors, and was dragged out of their car by Iraqi soldiers: "I hope he tries to contact us in a more elegant way next time..."

He has always reminded me of the Red Cross officials who visited the concentration camps during WWII.

ScaniaBoy

[VOA]

The rest of the 55 still alive better turn themselves in to us real quick...They're safer with us....

Garner and Franks need to get that message out that there will something of a
"witness protection program" for those who deliver the goods about Saddam and Co.'s
worst deeds.

[VOA]

Remember his comments about the Iraqi who tried to give evidence to the inspectors,
and was dragged out of their car by Iraqi soldiers: "I hope he tries to contact
us in a more elegant way next time..."

I'll give Blix this...
he acted no different that I'd expect any "inspector" from a "neutral" country to act.

That is, he didn't act as part of the moral human race.

[friendly]

(Blix) comments about the Iraqi who tried to give evidence to the inspectors, and was dragged out of their car by Iraqi soldiers: "I hope he tries to contact us in a more elegant way next time..."

I forgot about that Blix atrocity. Blix is really just another Nazi hidden behind that passive-aggresive persona. Make no mistake but that he is a sworn murderous enemy of the US, as well as obviously the Iraqi people as well.

[MizSterious]

FYI

[Delta 21]

I am really suprised we havent seen severe in-fighting in Baghdad ending with someone swinging from a light pole.

[Delta 21]

......not that that would be a bad thing.......

[geedee]

I'm giving 10:1 odds that Petah Jennings never mentions this on ABC. Any takers?

[American in Israel]

On reports of this guy giving an interviw to Blix, freepers said he was a dead man walking. Looks like he did not walk too far.

Sure is a good thing he trusted the UN huh? Unless of course the UN was in Saddams back pocket all along. He might of got killed if that was true.

[First Amendment]

Enemies that clearly act as enemies are much better than the so-called neutral kind, or the kind that superficially acts "nice". It is stupid to accept people (or countries) at face value sometimes. THe duplicity of those like Blix makes me sick and angry.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I wonder if there is anyone alive who knows where the chemicals were buried?

[whadizit]

I have an eerie feeling that some of the scientists that we need to talk to have succombed to the same fate, and, those that did the "heavy lifting" (the little man). Since there is a reward offered, one would think the laborers involved would come forward. They were probably killed soon after the misdeed of hiding.

[friendly]

Enemies that clearly act as enemies are much better than the so-called neutral kind, or the kind that superficially acts "nice".

Think of the evil leadership of France, Canada, and Germany. The German and Canadian people are OK. (French suck all around) The leadership is absolutely not to be trusted.

[First Amendment]

They were probably killed soon after the misdeed of hiding.

I have an article I found a couple of months ago about Iraq's nuke program, and how they tested un a tunnel under a lake and killed everyone involved after (as far as tunnel diggers and whatnot.) That seems to have been Saddam's policy.

If anyone wants to see that article I'll cut and paste it - it was supposedly info from a defector and it was very detailed, and convincing to me.

[ScaniaBoy]

Yesterday it was reported on Swedish TV news that ABC had found documents that showed that the Iraqis had bugged the UN inspectors. I haven't seen this mentioned in any other news ooutlet - nor been able to find it on ABC homepage.

However, if it is true that they were bugged then the witnesses really were dead men walking - (assuming that Saddam needed any motive at all to hold an execution party...)