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.

[Grampa Dave]

Looks like his body is about to make him irrelevant very soon.

[chance33_98]

You are correct. And an odd thread this is, Chia pets, twin peaks, and long dong's...BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[WhiskeyPapa]

...the Mufti helped fund Nazi activities all over the Arab world, including a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq that failed.

Plus they tried to snatch the Ark of the Covenent too, Nazi creeps.

Walt

[judgeandjury]

Sooooooooo......does this guy get the virgins or no?

Yeah, 72 ugly virgins!

[OREALLY]

THAT WAS SOOO FUNNY !

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Sometimes when we touch,
The honesty's too much...

[PoisedWoman]

Luis, your #42 is brilliant! Lovely, too!

They might also be dancing to this old Fred Astaire song:


There may be trouble ahead
But while there’s moonlight and music and love and romance,
Let’s face the music and dance.
Before the fiddlers have fled
Before they ask us to pay the bill
And while we still have the chance
Let’s face the music and dance.
Soon we’ll be without the moon
Humming a different tune
And then
There may be teardrops to shed
But while there’s moonlight and music and love and romance.
Let’s face the music and dance, dance
Lets’s face the music and dance……

[PoisedWoman]

You have to check out posts #42 and 87 on this thread. Maddie Albright loves Kim Jun Illie baby....

[Luis Gonzalez]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[LenS]

Hey, the USMC is an awesome fighting machine, but that headline gives them unearned credit. It was the Army's 3rd ID that took Baghdad with their "let's remind Fedayeen why shooting at Abrams on a roll from the back of a pickup only works when you're fighting Libyans".

[Victoria Delsoul]

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.

This goes to show the man's brutality.

[tutstar]

ping

[Tunehead54]

This goes to show the man's brutality.

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I know the Chinese bill the family of someone excuted for the cost of the bullet. I think I've read that it was common practice in Iraq as well.

[OESY]

Does anyone remember how Bill Clinton attacked Bush 41 for his advisors Brent Scowcroft and Larry Eagleburger "coddling" the Red Chinese by drinking Champaign with them -- before selling missile guidance secrets through Bernie Schwartz's Loral Corp.? Does anyone pictures of Mad Madeleine dancing with Kim Jong Il?

[kallisti]

outer limits?