Intelligence examines cargo flight from Baghdad to Belarus (Saddam's SAFE HAVEN?)

The World Tribune ^ | 25 April, 2003

[Happy2BMe]

It will be quite interesting to see what Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz has to say about this.

[sarasota]

Not buying it. Saddam is having a dirt nap.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Belarus will be getting a visit from several non-descript, ordinary but extremely fit looking, tourists in the near future, if they are not already there on vacation or business.

[Happy2BMe]

" They said the Iraqi ruler was in close contact with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and that Minsk became a major military supplier to Baghdad."

How close in relations is Belarus with Moscow?

At least we can see some weapons trails here.

[nevergore]

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is more a old Soviet style dictator than President... he resurrected an old style KGB type "Security Force" and rules that country with an iron fist....

While all the old Soviet Republics implement reforms he continues a backwards path to hardline communist dictatorship.....Political opponents disapear or are intimidated, dissent is squashed....

I have several Belarussins working for me and they are thankful to be in the US and vow never to return to Belarus....

NeverGore

[epluribus_2]

sticky, charred, dirt-nap.

[KeyWest]

Wasn't that was the day the bomb hit the bunker? Doubt if any planes got off. This is bogus.

[Psalm 73]

Yeah, I think with our air superiority and Intelligence - there is no way we let any flight out of Iraq that we didn't know exactly what was on it.

[Happy2BMe]

[ewing]

Hmm..Debka was on to something after all

[Grut]

Whether Saddam is crispy, jellied or in rude good health, it doesn't matter. If he's dead he's dead; if he's alive, eventually his character will force him to make himself known and he can be made dead by whoever's interested.

What he no longer is, and never again can be, is a player.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

I saw Saddam with my own two eyes yesterday…at RibaSmith Supermarket here in Panama City (R of P)...Believe me...I am only telling you the facts...I am just reporting what anyone will tell you has to be obvious...And that's the truth.

[mitchbert]

- there is no way we let any flight out of Iraq that we didn't know exactly what was on it.

Correct. That being said, it doesn't negate the possibility that the story is true. Personally, I think he's dead, but the geopolitical world works in strange ways sometimes.

[Happy2BMe]

"I saw Saddam with my own two eyes yesterday…at RibaSmith Supermarket here in Panama City (R of P)...Believe me...I am only telling you the facts...I am just reporting what anyone will tell you has to be obvious...And that's the truth."

Come On!. .. . That's a BOLDFACED LIE!

Everyone knows he was in San Francisco broadcasting to one of his support groups . . .

The mayor of San Francisco speaks - Demands Rioting - Calls For Massive Idiot Uprising . .

Saddam Hussein, on San Francisco television, in a message broadcast after the missiles and bombs hit, calls on all IDIOTS, TRAITORS, and FRIENDS OF THE ENEMY to support their local Terrorist Cells in the city . .  (Photo: IRAQI TV)

[headsonpikes]

Note of caution to Saddam...'The road from Potatsk to Pinsk goes through Minsk'-- Old and obscure Belarussian proverb.

;^)

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

WELLLLL (my arms in akimbo position)....SOMEBODY is lying and it is not I. I may give deliberate false statements, but I am not a liar..

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

oh yes...I forgot to add at the end: And that's the truth!

[Happy2BMe]

"I may give deliberate false statements, but I am not a liar.."

It's a done deal, he is in Oz (under a house).

The Look On Bob's Face. . After He Spoke With Ambassador Dorothy . .

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Okay. I'll settle he's on Oz.

[Sender]

While Belarus may resemble the rigid dictatorship of Iraq in many ways, somehow I cannot see Saddam living there. What would Lukashenko do with him...put him up in a dacha somewhere with a fleet of bodyguards? Saddam would be like a fish out of water in Belarus. No, I think he would have to go to some Arabic-speaking paradise for his retirement, that is if he is not already permanently retired.