Saddam has 3 hours to live once war begins

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | March 01, 2003 | WND.com

[Pern]

U.S. Special Forces have been inside Iraq for months and plan to capture or kill Iraqi President Saddam Hussein within three hours of an assault on Baghdad.

Undercover U.S. agents, CIA operatives and Special Forces teams are already in place in and around the Iraqi capital, reports the Sydney Daily Telegraph.

A government source in a pro-U.S. Middle Eastern country told the paper the plan to ''take out Saddam'' is designed to minimize infrastructure damage, increase the likelihood of Iraqi forces surrendering and save billions of dollars by avoiding a lengthy campaign.

Here's what Hussein has been doing in recent days, according to the report:

- Ordered members of his depleted air force to form a ''kamikaze'' suicide unit which will pilot Iraqi fighter jets Sept.-11-style into enemy targets;

- Added two new units to his forces – the Fidayee Saddam Army and the Special Protection Army. They join the regular army, the Republican Guard, the Special Republican Guard and the Alquds Liberation Army;

- Sent senior officers of his Special Republican Guard to monitor the regular army for any sign of revolt;

- Ordered the arrest of key officers in the air force suspected of treachery. They have been sent to the notorious Abu Graib Prison in Baghdad. Three air force officers – two captains and a lieutenant – who refused to join the kamikaze units were shot last week during the traditional Al Adha feast;

- Established a bio-chemical weapons training base at Al Naserieya, in southern Iraq for use as a last resort against coalition troops; and

- Drew up plans for a scorched earth policy involving the destruction of dams, bridges and oil wells.

Much of the insight into Saddam's plans comes from a former senior officer in an elite Iraqi Army unit who led an uprising against Saddam during the last Gulf War, Captain William Warda, who was granted political asylum in Australia by U.N. edict.

Speaking yesterday, Captain Warda, who is now a senior official in the Iraqi Military Council, said the council was using a complex web of agents inside Saddam's regime to monitor the dictator and his military plans.

''We have received this information from agents still inside Iraq and others who have escaped through Jordan,'' he told The Daily Telegraph.

Saddam is so distrustful of his regular army he has starved it of resources, supplying only minimal stores of ammunition, fuel and food.

Saddam has created a Special Protection Army to protect him from assassination. It is made up of his closest allies, including relatives, tribal loyalists from his birthplace of Tikrit and criminals who face jail should Saddam be toppled. Numbering several hundred, this unit will fight to the death.

The Fidayee Army was formed by Saddam's son Qusay to crush any signs of revolt. The Alquds Liberation Army is made up of retired army officers and Arabs from outside Iraq who have volunteered to fight the ''infidels''.

There has been speculation that a war against Iraq could be all but over within 48 hours, but that hinges on a swift operation to eliminate Saddam.

[BunnySlippers]

World Net Daily. That explains it. The administration acknowledges it may be hard to capture Saddam. And we still are looking for Osama and friends.

[fiftymegaton]

We can at least get 1 of his 19 or so look-a-likes.

[TADSLOS]

Three weeks, maybe. Three hours is the stuff movies are made for.

[Liberals are Evil Socialists!]

Even if they do not, they ought to run a disinformation campaign to broadcast to the Iraqis and claim Saddam is dead. Get a dummy actor to play the part of his corpse. That will drag him up to deny it or else greatly help turn the tide. This might be easy.

[Uncle George]

They don't mention E-bombs neutralizing everything in and near Baghdad in the first hour do they. Plus many many more suprises in store for the murderers.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Good idea about getting a dead dummy to play Saddam.....yes it would throw off the Iraqi's and Saddam himself

Things dont look so good for Iraq's military if they have to spend so much materiel and men to keep the troops from revolting and surrendering.....usually this stuff happens towards ends of wars as the defeated side knows they are going to lose. Not even waiting for the war to start to take care of deserters and revolters

[RS]

"World Net Daily. That explains it. "

Why is this a problem... we can just ask Dan Rather where he is ...

[Rain-maker]

If the Raelians have anything to do with Saddam, there's probably 100's of clones...LOL

[jlogajan]

Even if they do not, they ought to run a disinformation campaign to broadcast to the Iraqis and claim Saddam is dead. Get a dummy actor to play the part of his corpse. That will drag him up to deny it or else greatly help turn the tide. This might be easy.

Right, all Saddam's fake play against him during crunch time, cuz no one will know who the real Saddam is, even his own people. It is hard enough in the "fog of war" to tell who is legit, and this makes it easy to build a huge fog machine. :-)

[brewcrew]

Three hours is the stuff movies are made for.

Unless it's Gods and Generals, in which case three hours WOULD have been sufficient - but NO!

[Riley]

LOL! I can almost see 'Kato' from the Pink Panther films holding a Ka-Bar in his teeth hiding in the drop-ceiling over Saddam's bed...

Or maybe he's hiding in the 'fridge again :-)

[ConservativeNewsNetwork]

Ordered members of his depleted air force to form a ''kamikaze'' suicide unit which will pilot Iraqi fighter jets Sept.-11-style into enemy targets;

This is suspect.

[VOA]

Saddam has 3 hours to live once war begins

The title should be edited to say this:
"Saddam and Any of His 'Doubles' have 3 hours to live once war begins "

Pretty soon we'd have a few guys who look like Saddam showing up to turn themselves
in to our frontline forces in Kuwait or the Kurd regions of Iraq.

[MonroeDNA]

I've found WND to be pretty reliable.

[AmericaUnited]

If someone has 8 look-alikes, are they still called doubles or octuplets?

[Procyon]

who was granted political asylum in Australia by U.N. edict.

Huh? How does the United Nations order Australia to grant someone political asylum?

More WND nonsense.

[TD911]

Just call George Lucas.

He can pull it off since, thankfully, there's no dialog involved.

[MonroeDNA]

I have a friend who was a Ranger in the Somalia fiasco. He took two rounds, and still made it out with the others, running miles. Incredible shape, and his clear blue eyes don't seem to blink when you are talking to him. He can switch from how to blow up a bridge, to how to take on hundreds at once, to how to survive on nothing and still get your target. And when you look at him, you know he can. No braggadocio at all; just pure competence.

The CIA recruits asassins from the most die-hard of our special forces. He knows a couple, and says that those two scared him. They don't take anybody. Then the real training begins. These are guys you really don't want to be on the bad side of.

For years our special ops guys have been hamstrung, and the CIA even more so. No longer.

They have what they need, and free reign to do whatever they can. You have no idea what these dogs can do in a short time, if (when) politicians let them.

The gloves are off.

[alancarp]

If someone has 8 look-alikes, are they still called doubles or octuplets?

Plastic Clones