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Saddam killed his top commander as Marines stormed Baghdad
The World Tribune ^
| 4 May, 2003
Posted on 05/04/2003 8:08:59 PM PDT by 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.
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To: seamole
That would be the first Jack.
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posted on
05/05/2003 5:26:40 AM PDT
by
GraniteStateConservative
(Putting government in charge of morality is like putting pedophiles in charge of children.)
To: fightinJAG
Awesome site, thanks for the link.
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posted on
05/05/2003 5:41:23 AM PDT
by
LurkedLongEnough
(Living proof that a Conservative can spring from a "Liberal Arts" education.)
To: Happy2BMe
The newspaper said Al Rawi, commander of the elite Republican Guards, was accused of treason and shot in the head and back.I think the head alone would've sufficed.
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:00:03 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I don't mind the rat race, but I could do with a little more cheese.)
To: Grampa Dave
"Yo Kim Chia Head, the Short Donged One"Where did you get that one? Or did you just make it up? I can't understand a word of it, but it is funny nonetheless.... :-)
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:08:19 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: b4its2late
.....I think the head alone would've sufficed....
Nervous hands caused the first shot to miss and a second to the head was required.
65
posted on
05/05/2003 6:47:28 AM PDT
by
bert
(Don't Panic !)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Picture was probably taken by Madeline Dimwit.
To: Sabertooth; Grampa Dave
Great pics, Sabertooth.
Thanks for linking this thread to the OIF thread, Grampa.
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posted on
05/05/2003 6:57:06 AM PDT
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("It is heartbreaking what a vicious, Stalinist regime can do to a country."- Rummy re. Saddam-Iraq)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl; Sabertooth; chance33_98
Thanks to the creativity and indexing skills of these two great freepers and others, this thread turned out to be a riot.
I reviewed it again this morning with no coffee in my mouth and nothing sharp or breakable in my hands.
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posted on
05/05/2003 7:04:32 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
To: AmericanInTokyo
The Chia Head came from creative Freepers:
Apparently part of his Korean name is Long Dong. So I changed it to the Short Donged One and added it to Yo Kim Chia Head.
69
posted on
05/05/2003 7:09:38 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
To: chance33_98
Twin Peaks...first season. Cooper shot
two through each eye, and one through each
nostril.
"Nice Pattern" -- Hawk
70
posted on
05/05/2003 7:18:12 AM PDT
by
absinthe
To: Grampa Dave
I'm still confused. But I like it anyways. Good job.
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posted on
05/05/2003 7:21:05 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Kim Jong Il had ANOTHER bad underwear day . He found "decapitate" in his English-Korean dictionary.)
To: absinthe
Thanks, I could not remember, and I must have missed that show.
72
posted on
05/05/2003 7:49:11 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Being a Monthly Donor to Free Republic is the Right Thing to do!)
To: Happy2BMe
Wasn't the world Trib saying just the other day that we had captured Osama Bin Ladin?
Walt
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posted on
05/05/2003 8:49:56 AM PDT
by
WhiskeyPapa
(Be copy now to men of grosser blood and teach them how to war!)
To: ex-Texan
Just following the lead of his idol -- Adolf Hitler. I was under the impression Saddam was a lot more influenced by Stalin than by Hitler. And Stalin, among other things, executed a lot more generals than Hitler, often for this very crime of being militarily unsuccessful.
To: Happy2BMe
You have failed me for the last time...
75
posted on
05/05/2003 9:04:19 AM PDT
by
lsee
To: Happy2BMe
... Saddam had not intended to allow the rapid advance of the U.S. military toward Baghdad.Heh. I bet he didn't.
76
posted on
05/05/2003 9:07:12 AM PDT
by
Recovering_Democrat
(I'm SO glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government.)
To: Happy2BMe
He was an enabler that got his just reward.
77
posted on
05/05/2003 9:07:56 AM PDT
by
cynicom
To: NormsRevenge
Boy, isn't that a face only a mother could love. Ole lemon sucker himself. Arghh.
78
posted on
05/05/2003 9:24:59 AM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(GOD is still in control!)
To: chance33_98
Are these the chia professors by chance?
79
posted on
05/05/2003 9:27:01 AM PDT
by
Marysecretary
(GOD is still in control!)
To: 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.Either that, or he's been eating handfuls of Khat shipped in from Yemen, or he has one serious cocaine addiction.Look at that mug,sheesh!
80
posted on
05/05/2003 10:54:52 AM PDT
by
Pagey
(Hillary Rotten is a Smug , Holier-Than-Thou Socialist)
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