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Intelligence picks up signs Saddam incommunicado with military after attack
AP
| 3/20/03
| JOHN J. LUMPKIN
Posted on 03/20/2003 10:04:30 AM PST by kattracks
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:04:31 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Perhaps headline should read "No signs of communicado".
To: kattracks
I figure it either killed them, injured them or made them call up Idi Amin to see how the weather was along the Red Sea this time of year.
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:06:07 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Render yourself invisible to the media - attend a Rally for America today!)
To: kattracks
Intelligence picks up signs Saddam incommunicado with military after attack Uhhh, when was this guy ever in touch with his military? Guy never was a soldier and values loyalty more than compitence in his officers. I daresay the army is better off with Saddam's phone line cut.
To: kattracks
The officials said the attack began with about three dozen cruise missiles that leveled the aboveground structures and which were followed up quickly by Air Force F-117 precision bunker-busting bombs that could penetrate deep into the leadership compound.
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:07:09 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(The Federal govt should be protecting us from terrorists, not handing out goodies)
To: kattracks
Can you provide link? TIA
To: kattracks
There was no coordination in security and military efforts around Baghdad and the rest of the country, the officials said. Yep. You cut off the head, and the body dies...
To: kattracks
If we know Saddam is in Communicado, then why don't we go get him?
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:08:50 AM PST
by
kevao
To: kattracks
My guess is that Saddam was at the site struck by the cruise missiles, but he was so far underground that he survived the attack.
Although he survived, his C&C facilties did not, which is why they had to make a cheesy camcorder tape of him for television. A runner had to take the tape from the bunker to a surviving TV station for airing.
A great question is why we are permitting Iraqi Bagdad TV to stay on the air. Obviously, we could turn it off or take it over as easily as we did with their radio.
So we must be hoping to use Saddam's taste for going on TV as bait to track him.
Also: even alive, to the Iraqi people his image is now shattered. Saddam always appears on posters and on TV as a vital studly vigorous take-charge man of about 50.
Now for the first time, the Iraqis have seen him as a tired, old, beaten nobody counting his final hours. Even alive, this is great psyops against him.
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:11:04 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--------------------------- WAR SOLVED HITLER! -------------------------)
To: kevao
why don't we go get himBetter bring a big roll of paper towels. I think we might have got him last night.
To: Travis McGee
A great question is why we are permitting Iraqi Bagdad TV to stay on the air. Obviously, we could turn it off or take it over as easily as we did with their radio. Probably the same reason we're not taking out the bridges this time...we plan on using them.
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:16:02 AM PST
by
ez
(Advise and Consent = Debate and VOTE!!)
To: myprecious
I heard a general this morning say that first they sent in the bunker busters, then cruise missiles to stir things up he said and then cluster bombs to finish off any loose ends. Can you just imagine the mess they made? I don't think Saddam is in the picture anymore.
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:16:47 AM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Woof and Fetch this)
To: Travis McGee
Now for the first time, the Iraqis have seen him as a tired, old, beaten nobody counting his final hours. Even alive, this is great psyops against him. And if that dude with the chipmunk cheeks was a double, he's surely been shot for incompetence. ;-)
To: All
You all will eventually find this out. So...
Saddam has been dead for over two months.
His regime would collapse (lose their power and wealth) if the Iraqi's found out.
The 'saddam' you have seen lately is one of the doubles.
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:19:45 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
To: ez
Yep, I think you're right. But they could just blow down the TV antennas easily with no collateral damage, and put up a new one next week.
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:20:00 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Travis McGee
"a cheesy camcorder tape"
That's about how it looked, like the third place winner in a junior high communications class video competition.
To: Thinkin' Gal
I wonder if Saddam is going to give his favorite mistresses cyanide and eat his pistol like Hitler?
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:21:37 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: kattracks
there was growing optimism the strike had left the Iraqi leadership in disarray. I guess you could put it that way. Body parts all over the place. "A certain young lady named Alice / Used a dynamite stick for a phallus..."
To: Thebaddog
I don't think Saddam is in the picture anymore.There is no canvas large enough. Anyway I hope your right.
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posted on
03/20/2003 10:27:12 AM PST
by
oyez
(This country is too good for some people.....)
To: Travis McGee
I wonder if Saddam is going to give his favorite mistresses cyanide and eat his pistol like Hitler? I think he's too delusial for that. He may end up crouched in a corner of his bunker, sucking his thumb. At that point Uday would shoot him.
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