HUNT-AND-KILL SQUADS SET TO TAKE OUT SADDAM & SONS

New York Post ^ | 2/24/03 | NILES LATHEM

[kattracks]

February 24, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Special "hunter-killer teams and aircraft would target Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein - and his two evil sons - within 48 hours of the launch of any military campaign, The Post has learned.

The moves would include a series of massive, surgical airstrikes and commando raids in the opening hours of the action. Specially trained operatives would target Saddam, sons Uday and Qusay and other key aides.

[johnny7]

... that Saddam, once attacked, will resort to "scorched earth tactics,

Geez, what astute insight. Saddam will play the Hitler card til the end. Any fool could figure that one out.

But even Hitlers generals did not want to destroy everything when they knew it was just a matter of time.

Hitlers biggest fear was to be paraded in a rolling cage through the streets of Moscow... like Von Paulus.

Saddam will not be taken alive.

[RushLake]

My memory is somewhat fuzzy after 23 years too (must be something we drank???). They were released in conjunction with Reagan's 1st inauguration. I would like to believe that people like the A$$aholah ayatollah, the soviets, etc. realized that there was about to be a gunslinger in the White House, no longer a wimpus americanus apologeticus.

[gaucho]

...weren't the hostages released just prior to Reagan's inaugeration? My memory is fuzzy on this, but that is my initial reaction. I voted for Reagan but I don't remember giving him credit for this.

The hostages where released because Reagan had been working behind the scenes (so to speak) before he became president. Also the beginnings of the whole Iran-Contra thing.

[Tom D.]

The Iranian hostages were released minutes AFTER Ronald Regan took the oath of office. My thoughts then and now are that the Iranians had no doubt that Regan would take names and kick butts if they did not turn our hostages loose immediately. Rather than wait until Regan demanded the release of our people and then appear to have knuckled under to him, the Iranians waited until just after Carter got out of office and just before Regan had a chance to issue an ultimatum to them to release the hostages.

This timing served two purposes: First it avoided the humiliation that the Iranians would have suffered had they given Regan a chance to make a demand on them before they turned the hostages loose; and, second, by waiting until after Carter had left office they got a final slap at that pathetic, impotent, sancitmonius Jimmy Carter.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

Special "hunter-killer teams and aircraft would target Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein - and his two evil sons - within 48 hours of the launch of any military campaign

More like within 48 seconds . . . unless "within" includes before as well as after.

[GailA]

But, BUT they said they don't have WMD's...how can they use them if they DON'T have them?????????? </sarcasam>

[section9]

Hey, I just noticed something!

Uday looks just like George Clooney!

Switched at Birth?

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[GailA]

post a photo, jpg, gif

[dennisw]

I predict Saddam will die one way or another. Same for one of his sons. I'm praying we capture one of his sons alive

[nicmarlo]

Does anyone know why he still has allegiance to his father?

Didn't Saddam kill one or two of his sons for defecting once they returned back home after being promised "all was forgiven?"

[nicmarlo]

isn't he paralyzed from the waist down?

That's what I heard, but I forget how (a bomb????)

[Future Snake Eater]

No, that was Saddam's son-in-law.

[Snowy]

Why is the Post revealing this? Better yet, why would this be leaked in the first place?

I hardly think this is a secret.

[yoe]

We're certainly grateful to the Post for laying out these warplans for us. I'm sure every commanding officer is quite eager to relay these plans to Saddam.

I am surprised Bill or Jimmy didn't announce it first...you can be sure Hillary will have something to say about these plans.

[nicmarlo]

March 7, 1997
Uday Hussein recuperating, he tells CNN

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Last December, gunmen opened fire on Saddam Hussein's eldest son, Uday Hussein, as he sat in his car on a busy Baghdad street. He was shot about 10 times.

[nicmarlo]

Yes, you're right.....son-in-law.....

[nicmarlo]

This is (slightly) interesting from that same 1997 article I posted:

Uday: "I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering," said Uday, who remains hospitalized. "I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover."

[Dog Gone]

Agent Defeat Weapon, a bomb that creates intense heat and chemical reactions to burn and then disinfect chemical and biological weapons sites

That's the first reference I've read to this type of weapon. Sounds like a pretty darn good idea.

[GirlShortstop]

Didn't Saddam put out a hit on Qusay a few years ago, leaving him partially paralyzed?

Does anyone know why he still has allegiance to his father?

I am reading Threatening Storm by Kenneth Pollack   (*great read*), and just finished a chapter in which a "hit" on Udayy was chronicled. The long and short of it:  the Dec '96 hit was attributed to a resistance group called an-Nahdah ("...well-educated young Iraqis") that had a vendetta for attrocities, torture and death inflicted on Gen Omar Al-Haza and his son, for publicly criticizing Saddam after a defeat at al-Faw in 1986.

Udayy was driving to a party when his car was surrounded by armed men and riddled with bullets. Although he survived the attack, he was hit eight times and several of the bullets lodged in his spine, leaving him paralyzed for many months.