Saddams Bodyguard reveals secrets, possible link to North Korea involved

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30836 ^ | 2-3-03 | judicial meanz

[judicial meanz]

Saddam Hussein's senior bodyguard has fled Iraq with what at least one former U.N. weapons inspector calls "the smoking gun" – proof positive of the Iraqi dictator's possession of undisclosed weapons of mass destruction, according to a report in Australia's Herald Sun newspaper.

The bodyguard – one of the reported many doubles Saddam deploys to confuse potential assassins – is named Abu Hamdi Mahmoud. According to the report, Mahmoud gave Israeli intelligence officials a list of weapons-laden sites the current crop of U.N. inspectors have not visited.,

including:

"An underground chemical weapons facility at the southern end of the Jadray Peninsula in Baghdad;

"A Scud assembly area near Ramadi. The missiles come from North Korea;

Two underground bunkers in Iraq's Western Desert. These contain biological weapons."

Former United Nations weapons inspector William Tierney characterizes Mahmoud's revelations as "the smoking gun," according to the Melbourne-based paper. "Once the inspectors go to where Mahmoud has pointed them, then it's all over for Saddam," said Tierney.

Saddam even swims with bodyguards

A member of Saddam's elite inner circle of bodyguards called the Murasiq Qun, Mahmoud was known as "The Gatekeeper," said the report, which noted that the muscular Mahmoud is a "Saddam lookalike, often photographed standing behind Saddam when he is seated, or to his left when on the move."

Though Mahmoud was reportedly debriefed last week by Israeli intelligence at a high-security base in the Negev Desert, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who strongly won his re-election bid Tuesday, is only allowing small parts of Mahmoud's sensational claims to be shared with the American CIA and the British MI6 intelligence service, said the report.

"Sharon intends to shatter the growing anti-war movement," a source close to Sharon told the Herald Sun. "He plans to call all those European leaders who are wavering to let them know how Saddam has continued to fool Hans Blix and his weapons inspectors."

Among Mahmoud's sensational revelations are the locations of five bunkers buried beneath man-made sand dunes, in which are kept warheads identical to the empty shell cases found recently by U.N. inspectors – shells Mahmoud said were waiting to be refilled and sent to the under-the-sand bunkers.

The Herald Sun includes excerpts from Mahmoud's Israeli debriefing, including the following quotes:

"Saddam's weapons of mass destruction are also concealed in a tunnel complex deep beneath the sewers of Baghdad and in an underground complex in Ouja, to the north of Tikrit. The complex was built five years ago with help from Chinese engineers. The entrance to the site is through a house in Tikrit. It is the home of one of Saddam's cousins and is more than half a mile from where the weapons are stored."

"I was inside the innermost circle where Saddam eats and sleeps. I was among the handful of bodyguards closest to him. Very few people are allowed close to Saddam. Many of the TV images you see of him were taken years ago. Most people now only speak to him over the phone. He usually calls them. If they have to call him back with information he wants, it is passed through his sons (Uday and Qusay) or (Deputy Prime Minister) Tariq Aziz. All those close to him have codes, which they use to access the outer circle. But even they can only come so close to Saddam before there is a cut-off point – the Inner Circle. Even Tariq Aziz is checked to see if he is carrying weapons. Saddam knows fortunes are being offered to have him assassinated."

The paranoid Saddam, says Mahmoud, is a walking arsenal.

"He has concealed guns all over his body," Mahmoud said. "He also has panic buttons to press if he even suspects somebody is about to attack him."

The Herald Sun account notes that Israeli intelligence sources imply Mahmoud's cooperation was contingent on Israel's smuggling Mahmoud's family out of Iraq.

[judicial meanz]

I have seen this article in three places now, so I guess its heading to be some bigger news in a few days. it draws a neat parallel with North Korea.

Apparently the NK's supply Saddam with missile parts and he assembles them near Ramdi.

Wonder how much this leads in to the North Korean escalation of hostilities?

Interesting questions here.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It is beginning to appear more and more as if there is joint collusion between Iraq and North Korea, and that North Korea will try something provocative (not quite big enough to get the world against them or a UN resolution) but something in the way of causing trouble, right after we enjoin the battle with Iraq. And, after all, they are in an alliance, so it will be no surprise that they have been coordinating in this respect.

[justa-hairyape]

North Korea and China. Interesting. You can only access Saddam by phone right now if you do not have the proper inner circle access code. In a situation like this, the leader himself could have died years ago. Nonone would ever know since he has too many enemies to ever be seen in public. Very creepy situation.

[judicial meanz]

The unsaid here is just as interesting as the said. Case in point: The China, NK, Iraq collusion, the Marxist anti-war movement with monetary support from all three, and now this.

This is definitely gonna be an intersting year.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[jpl]

The maniacal Saddam, betrayed by one of his own stand-ins. This is so rich, I absolutely love it!

[justa-hairyape]

they are in an alliance

Our President called it an 'Axis of Evil Alliance'. Back in the cold war there was a moment that sent chills down my backbone. It was when Regan called the Soviet Empire an 'Evil Empire'. That seemed to break the 'spell' the communists had over the world. Their empire began crumbling from that day on. We should not forget the third member of the axis of evil, either. My guess is Saddam has sent some of his WMD to them.

[mommadooo3]

Gee, if this this guy is supposed to be sodom insane's double....how can anyone 'tell' that it's not the ORIGINAL himself?

[marron]

It always astonishes me to see Dems taking positions that they know will be refuted easily. They are going to be humiliated. So why do they do it?

If normal folks can get a good idea what Saddam has, just from reading widely and having a long memory, the Dems in Washinton must surely know much better, having as they do access to intelligence briefings.

So when they demand "proof", or deny that proof exists, they must surely know it will all come out in the end, anyway. Why place yourself out on a limb and then start sawing?

I can only assume they are playing to the crowd, and they are banking on a crowd that does not read, that does not have a memory, and that is given to the most shallow of analysis.

Oh, never mind.

[judicial meanz]

Got me! Maybe by the hair on his knuckles or something...LOL

[judicial meanz]

Rush Limbaugh was talking about that today. He stated that the Democratic strategists had decided the only way they could get political points was to oppose the war at every tack to differentiate themselves from President Bush and undermine his success as a President. That was if the war went bad, they looked good, if it went good, they still had their core constituency, and if it made a lot of casualties and still was won, it would come out in favor of the Democrats.

Apparently, the fact that decisive world opinon could stop this war before it began if a consensus among people and nations occurred never entered into their minds, and all they want is to regain power at any cost.

Couple that with the fact every anti-war Senator and Congresman probably voted for the war resolution, and you being to see their strategy for the next election cycle and how they are going to play the cards.

The most annoying thing is that the Democraps dont care about the young American heros who will die in this war, or anyone else, only about gaining power and putting more of their stupid anti American policies in acion.

Next question- Whats so important about gaining power that your country, its soldiers, and the citizens in it come second?

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[CyberAnt]

I think this is a set-up!

I just keep thinking that since all the sites HAVE BEEN MADE PUBLIC - Sadaam has already moved the stuff. When the inspectors get there - ooops, sorry, we have no WMD ...!!

Iraq: Seeeeee ... the U.S. is lying about us.

[Momaw Nadon]

Attack on Iraq Betting Pool

[Republic]

It would seem the 'axis of evil' phrase is becoming more and more evident by the hour.

[demlosers]

The bodyguard – one of the reported many doubles Saddam deploys to confuse potential assassins – is named Abu Hamdi Mahmoud.

Which one is Abu Hamdi Mahmoud?

[Cicero]

Yes, it could be a setup.

[FreeCanuckistan]

When Dubya said "Axis of evil".....a lot of people laughed at the stupid thing, said by what they perceived to be...a stupid man. It's harder...much harder, for those people to reverse their positions now, because their whole world caves with it.

The evidence mounts....and Saddams end grows near. Shudder to think, if Clinton was still here......

[justa-hairyape]

Whats so important about gaining power that your country, its soldiers, and the citizens in it come second?

A world wide socialist/progressive utopia. Where 'greed' and 'exploitation' of people and mother earth are no more. Just read some of the remarks Nelson 'Cop killer' Mandela has said in the last few years. They still believe in the marxist lie that when a utopian sociallist/marxist controlling structure is in place, there will be no more exploitation and greed. As the world has learned more times then can be counted, just because you do not refer to government greed and exploitation as 'greed' and 'exploitation', that does not mean that 'greed' and 'exploitation' has ceased to occur. Just look at the excesses of any socialist ruling government. Lets randomly pick one. How about the Ba'ath party in Iraq. Gee, that would make a good case study.

On a personnal note, when the State of California impounded my old truck because I could not get it to pass the smog check, I told everyone that the police (acting on behave of the californian state government) stole my truck. You would not believe the wierd looks I got. Like gee man, the government can never 'steal'.

[MonroeDNA]

How long will the lamestream press sit on this one? They never learn.

Yoohoo, lamestream press, don't you know by now that this is going to come out, and eventually you will have to report it, no matter how much you hate Republicans?

FR is now officially recognized (and cited) on The Wall Street Journal editorial page. Do you think we're just going to go away after that?

We know you are here, reading.

You know it is going to come out; the groundswell is just starting.

So you might as well be the first to break this. We don't care if you cite us; we just want the truth known, good or bad.

Some of you journalists are arguing with your editor about the article you just wrote about this, but he/she won't let you publish. Show him/her this post.

Yoohoo, Mr. Editor, aren't you sick of being last?