Iraq Scud boss poisoned

The Sun ^ | March 1, 2003 | GEORGE PASCOE-WATSON

[MadIvan]

SADDAM Hussein’s top missile expert has been murdered to stop him blabbing to the UN.

General Muhammad Sa’id al Darraj died on Thursday after Saddam’s men poisoned his drink.

Relatives say he was ordered to hide details of Iraqi Scuds from the UN — but devious Saddam did not trust him.

The revelation came as President Bush warned war was imminent.

He said Saddam would be forced to give up his weapons — whatever the UN decided. He added: “If he had any intention of disarming, he would have disarmed. We will disarm him now.”

Bush called war the “last option” but said Americans fully understood an attack may be launched soon.

He added: “I’ve thought long and hard about the consequences and the price that could be paid.”

His comments came as UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Iraq was expected to start destroying its outlawed Al Samoud 2 missiles on Saturday.

The rockets can carry chemical and biological warheads and travel more than 90 miles — the maximum range laid down by the UN.

General al-Darraj was murdered hours before Saddam agreed to the destruction. The engineer had been called to a meeting at one of Saddam’s palaces for talks about how to mislead UN scientists over Iraq’s Scud programme.

Moments before he died, he managed to tell his family Saddam’s officials had spiked his drink with poison.

British intelligence chiefs said the murder was another example of Saddam’s ruthlessness.

They said it underlined his total disregard for human rights.

Saddam had his own son-in-law assassinated when he exposed the tyrant’s weapons of mass destruction.

[davetex]

Sure it's not Geezinslaw?

[sinkspur]

Speaking of Geezinslaw's, son said he asked his wife what she wanted for her birthday.

She said "I want a divorce."

Son said "Well, I wasn't planning on spendin' quite that much!"

[MindBender26]

Sun more like the NY Daily News, or NY Post, yes?

[steveo]

ARRRAGH!

[Lady In Blue]

Did you see this?! WOW!

[Lady In Blue]

ping

[JIM O]

HELP WANTED

SCUD BOSS

Immediate opening, Free drinks!

[knak]

This weekend is going to be interesting......

agreed, by the way it's already 6 am Saturday in Iraq.

[xzins]

Is this verifiable?

Why isn't it all over the news everywhere? Why aren't France, Germany, the UN, and Blix screaming out this crime?

Amazing.

[WOSG]

Any way to verify this??? I ran a google on this guy and nothing showed up. I think if it were more than rank speculation, there would be a bigger splash on this.
Could be very important information ... thre is NO reason to KILL him UNLESS HE WANTED TO HIDE SOMETHING ABOUT MISSILES ... hmmmmm.

Going here to ask:

http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/

[Trident/Delta]

You idiot... if the CIA could get that close they would do SH. Do you ever think before you type or are your words a surprise to you as you type?

Semper Amused

[KaiserofKrunch]

Pretty d*mn funny!!!!

It would be even funnier if it were not so true!

[demnomo]

I still scrutinize anything reported in the tabs, and any story is a little hard to take seriously from a paper that also offers naked women on page 3.

C'mon, now, MadIvan only reads The Sun for the articles. This thread is proof positive of that. ;)

[davetex]

Hardy-Har, Good night nurse and chi-chi bug.

[Myrddin]

How? How would he know he was poisoned and have time to tell his family before he died? How did he contact his family? Did the family get the body back?

There was a 911 call in San Diego where the wife of an auto shop owner realized that her husband had poisoned her. On the call, she was heard to say, "What did you put in my drink you bastard?". It was cyanide. She was dead before help could arrive. Hubby was convicted of murder. He's on death row.

[Salvation]

This is a mad story about madman, Saddam.

[Salvation]

**Relatives say he was ordered to hide details of Iraqi Scuds from the UN — but devious Saddam did not trust him.**

Say, Goodbye, Saddam.

[deport]

Thanks... I wonder if this has been verified by any other source? I can't find it mentioned on Yahoo/Google News searches. Is this something like a tabloid

[Thane_Banquo]

It's a lot easier to get close to some aid, whom Saddam doesn't care about, than Saddam.

[The Raven]

How'd they find this out?