Saddam killed his top commander as Marines stormed Baghdad

The World Tribune ^ | 4 May, 2003

[Happy2BMe]

Saddam killed his top commander as Marines stormed Baghdad

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMSunday, May 4, 2003

LONDON — Iraqi President Saddam Hussein killed his leading military commander on charges of treason as U.S. forces captured Baghdad.

The London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat daily said Saddam and his younger son, Qusay, executed Gen. Seif Eddin Al Rawi on April 8. The newspaper said Al Rawi, commander of the elite Republican Guards, was accused of treason and shot in the head and back.

Al Rawi was summoned by Saddam and executed on the day U.S. marines captured the Iraqi capital. The newspaper said Al Rawi's body was sent to his family.

The newspaper report appeared to indicate that Saddam had not intended to allow the rapid advance of the U.S. military toward Baghdad. Saddam had deployed six Republican Guard divisions around the Iraqi capital, Middle East Newsline reported.

But two of the divisions, the Baghdad and Medina divisions, were neutralized by U.S. air attacks. The four other divisions were said to have failed to put up serious resistance.

On Friday, U.S. Central Command announced the capture of three Saddam aides. The command said two of them were members of the Revolutionary Command Council and the third was the director of Iraq's weapons development program. All three were captured on Thursday.

The captured aides were identified as Abdul Tawab Mullah Huwaysh, director of the Office of Military Industrialization. The Office of Military Industrialization was responsible for the development of Iraq's most lethal weapons. Huwaysh was listed as No. 16 on the U.S. most-wanted list.

The other two Iraqis were Taha Muhyl al Din Maruf, vice president and a member of the Revolutionary Command Council. Maruf was No. 42 on the U.S. list of 55 most wanted Iraqis.

The United States also captured Mizban Khadr Hadi, another Revolutionary Command Council member who had been an adviser to Saddam since the early 1980s. Hadi was No. 41 on the U.S. list.

[chance33_98]

WHASSSSSSSSSUUUUP?
Drinking a bud getting ready to nuke your a$$

[Luis Gonzalez]

Someday when I'm awf'ly low,
And the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight

Oh, but you're lovely,  with your smile so warm
And your cheek so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you
Just the way you look tonight

With each word your tenderness grows,
tearing my fear apart,
And that laugh that wrink-les your nose
touches my foolish heart.

Oh, but you're lovely, never, never change,
Keep that breathless charm,
Won't you please arrange it, 'cause I love you,
Just the way you look tonight.

And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
touches my foolish heart.

Lovely, never, never change,
Keep that breathless charm,
Won't you please arrange it, 'cause I love you,
Just the way you look tonight.
Just the way you look tonight.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks! You do such a great job on this subject! I get tears in my eyes from laughing everytime I see them. You may have to incorporate some of the Chia Head Stuff.

[paul51]

This re-defines friendly fire casualty

[Grampa Dave]

Wow! These are great Chia Head Cameo's!

MinuteGal, bet you haven't had this much fun of a thread in a day or so.

Thanks, again, Chance!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, for the poetry!

This has become a really great thread!

[Grampa Dave]

You are right, he does look like ASIAN AL Davis. He just needs an Oakland Raider Jacket and about 12 trial lawyers circling around him like attack pit bulls.

[Grampa Dave]

This is really great, Whatssss Up Man?!

[ladyinred]

But he wasn't a terrorist right, France, Germany, and a few British reporters?

[Slyfox]

Hey! We both got wieners!

[MinuteGal]

I've had so much fun on this thread I forgot to look at the time, yikes.

Ciao!

Leni

[NormsRevenge]

No. This is a photo of a corpse. ;-)

[Grampa Dave]

Damn, this is hideous. Looks like the Israeli IDF has been forcing him to OD on Mogen David Pure Grape El Cheapo Kosher Wine.

[Grampa Dave]

What the hell is happening to Arafarty. What is the terminal disease when your lips and nose turn this purple color?

[Grampa Dave]

Good Night!

[NormsRevenge]

He's been hitting the Purple Koolaid pretty heavy, it would appear.

I'd like to make a pitcher of Jimmy Jones' special brew just for him.

[sheik yerbouty]

They still need more payback.

[Future Useless Eater]

Thanks for the post, but I wonder if we can we REALLY believe
an Islamic paper is truthfully reporting on this guy's death?

He is one of the 7 or eight that several sources had said
escaped to Syria, and he was hiding out in a certain hotel
there.

Also, in order to believe this report, one has to also
believe Saddam survived both bombings, 3/20/2003
and 4/07/2003. Time will tell...

I'll start noting his new 'possible' status on the charts.
please ping me if there are ever any independent confirmations
of this.

[Risa]

>>YO KIM CHIA HEAD, THE SHORT DONGED ONE! <<

That's hilarious!

risa

[risk]

Saddam's idol was Joe Stalin Not Adolf Hitler.

He may have admired Stalin, and his recent military advisors may have been Stalinist Russians, but his origins are definitely fascist. Consider that his uncle was Kharaillah Tulfah, who worked with the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini. The Mufti had links to Nazi Germany, probably established by Adolf Eichmann after he was appointed in 1937. According to Chuck Morse, the Mufti helped fund Nazi activities all over the Arab world, including a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq that failed. He would later go to Germany and then be sent to Bosnia where he recruited 100,000 muslims to fight for Hitler.

His cry was, "Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you."

Saddam was definitely a student of Hitler's. And given Abu Mazen's Holocaust denial, and his connection to the Mufti through Arafat, I do not see an immediate end to the influence of the Mufti in mideast affairs.