U.S. Troops Find Bones at Saddam Bomb Site

Reuters ^ | Wednesday, June 04, 2003 12:46 p.m | Andrew Marshall

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... Lt. Gen. David McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said a more thorough search of the site in the upscale Mansur neighborhood of Baghdad had begun after intelligence reports suggested human remains were buried under the rubble. ...

[justshutupandtakeit]

Where do you get the Timetable of Information Releases from?
Every weapon must be used against the real enemy of America, the RATs, including releasing information at the appropriate times.

Comparing lies with timing of information release is not valid.

[princess leah]

My son heard a media guy talking and his response was "he's dead because otherwise he would have shown himself to the world by now just to spite Bush!"

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

I heard 3 radio stations today DENY that anything was found all of them ran by CBS news someone or some group is getting very nervous about this !

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for posting that excerpt. Here's the rest:

Gen. Tommy Franks, who commanded the war against Iraq, said in April that U.S.-led forces had Saddam's DNA and it would be used to check whether attempts to kill him had succeeded.

MOUNTING ANGER

McKiernan said reinforcements were being sent to areas north and west of Baghdad where U.S. forces have come under attack in a series of ambushes that have killed and injured several in the last few weeks.

He blamed "regime-connected or Baath party remnants" for the attacks, and said they would be rooted out.

"To address this threat we are applying additional military resources and forces to help us identify and decisively defeat these anti-coalition, and I might add anti-Iraqi, regime elements," he said.

Many of the reinforcements are being sent to Falluja, where at least 15 people were killed in two clashes with troops in late April, fueling calls for revenge among the population of 400,000 who belong to the largely pro-Saddam Dulaimi tribe.

Many residents say they preferred Saddam's rule to the U.S.-led occupation.

"We want our President Saddam back," reads one slogan daubed on a wall in the town, 45 miles west of Baghdad.

Many residents said they were angered by the behavior of U.S. troops. Local complaints about intrusive searches of houses sparked the initial clashes in the town in April.

"My son is a doctor. He was driving his car to hospital when they stopped him and forced him to lie on the street face down with his hands tied behind his back for two hours in the heat," said local schoolteacher Rajab Hassan Hamadani.

"They searched his car and found his pistol which he has for protection. They confiscated it and then let him go. Didn't they say pistols would not be confiscated?"

The U.S. launched a two-week gun amnesty on June 1, urging Iraqis to turn in heavy weapons, although they may keep assault rifles at home and carry licensed handguns.

But McKiernan said the amnesty had yielded only around 300 weapons across Iraq so far -- a tiny number in a country bristling with guns. Many Iraqis say they need to hold on to their firearms to protect themselves from the looters and criminals who have flourished in post-Saddam Iraq.

Copyright © 2003 Reuters Limited.

[MeekOneGOP]

[Spunky]

"They found Chandra!",

I presume you are just making a funny. But in case you believe they are still looking for Chandra's bones, she was found May 2002.

[Samurai_Jack]

You imply the WH is deliberately withholding information for political reasons.

NO!!!
It's not withholding information... It's 'Completed Staff Work'

[Ditter]

If you remember that joke you are as old as I am. LOL

[fightinJAG]

I hope COL Hunt's sources are correct.

[doug from upland]

If they are his, they are sub-human bones.

[oceanview]

Of course. The fact that they are just "getting around" to excavating what should have been the most important site of the war proves that they know nothing is there. what have they been doing all these weeks?

[oceanview]

How long should be wait for him to be "declared" dead? Do you want a body or DNA, or is just a press release enough for you?

[oceanview]

Paul Vallely, Fox's other military expert, says Saddam is in Belarus.

[Destro]

What if the remains turn out to be those of the busboys and waiters?

[Optimist]

[JusPasenThru]

He's pining for the fjords, he is.

[fightinJAG]

My geography lessons escape me at the moment. I'm trying to remember the grid coordinates for Belarus and think how would Saddam have gotten there.

[fightinJAG]

"You can imagine that if we have an intel lead that possibly there was somebody like Saddam Hussein in that location, we exploit it," he told a news conference in Baghdad. "That's what we're doing."

I think this is the key to this article.

The military has new intelligence leading them to believe Saddam's bones are in that big pile of rubble.

[Simcha7]

Question Please...?

What ever happened to "Baghdad Bob" the TV guy?

Have not heard anything more about him, have any of you?

He must have fallen off the Turnip Truck, or maybe his Pod picked him up.

And I sure hope that those "found" bones belong to Soddom and his Demon boys...a very fitting end for each one of them.

They can burn in Hell for All Eternity, that's exactly where they belong.

[Terp]

Is this one of the sites where a left wing news service said that there were no signs of a bunker after the bombing?

No not the same sight. The one your thinking of was the bombing that kicked off the war.