Saddam hiding in fortress

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 04/15/03 | BRIAN FLYNN, NICK PARKER, and TOM WORDEN

[CurlyDave]

Good idea. Also a good field test for the MOAB now in theater.

Would you guys get serious. The last thing we want to do is blow his miserable body into molecules.

We need an identifiable corpse.

[USMMA_83]

He's a typical Arab Muslim. He'll never put his life on the line. That's why he has about a dozen dups running around. He's like Bin Ladin, they both absconded before the fighting started. Bin Laden is in Pakistan, while Saddam is in Syria.

[friendly]

Map of Al Hawijah http://www.ncss.org/resources/moments/iraq/IraqMap.pdf

Follow the Tigris river north of Bagdad, halfway to Tikrit (also on the Tigris)

[gcruse]

Well done.

[Mike Darancette]

Also a good field test for the MOAB now in theater

And here I was getting all sad that they might not get a chance to use it.

[Born to Conserve]

"Saddam has now turned Al Hawijah ? about 60 miles north-east of Tikrit and 50 miles west of Kirkuk ? into his ..."

MOAB target?

[El Gato]

I have a difficult time believing Saddam will ever make a "bloody, last stand." He is all mouth--unless it involves other people's lives. He is a coward who will try to escape to the very end.

I'm sure he will. The solution is to cut off all escape routes before making a move on this "fortress" If he tries to go through the desert, the Predators will find him, and then the scanvengers will get him, although there are things even a buzzard won't eat, and his stinking corpse might just be one of them. If he stays, the Air Force or the Marines will get him, or the Kurds. I kind of hope it's the Kurds, as long as they make videos. I understand the Kurds do "intersting" things with knives. If the Marines get him, he'll just get to do a rope trick, after a long and probably nauseating trial. If the Air Force finally gets him, we're back to those buzzards again.

[El Gato]

while Saddam is in Syria.

I do hope so, hot pursuit and all that. Hopefully we find him about the time we get to the Med. coast, unless we come in that way too, in which case about the time the forces converge on Damascus.

[Grut]

Actually, Saddam has moved into Hitler's old house in Rio.

We are gonna be seeing these 'Saddam Found!' stories for the next thirty years.

[Howlin]

Say, you're pretty good at that.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Jafar Jafar

Or, as he is known to close friends, J'ar J'ar.

[MattAMiller]

Here's the story as I understand it so far:

Saddam, who was killed on March 19th in strike on his bunker, was critically wounded during the March 19th strike on his bunker. Unforuntately for the coalition Saddam was not in the bunker at the time, although the strikes did kill his sons Qusay and Uday, who had been killed earlier in an altercation with his father's bodyguards.

Iraqi officials attempted to cover the death of of Iraqi President with a series of prerecorded tapes. One such tape showed Saddam on the streets of the Mansour district of Baghdad. The tape, which has been shown to have been shot in late Febuary, was proven to be shot in late March.

On April 2 an unscathed Saddam, who had been critically wounded, was killed in a strike launched by the US. Saddam, who was confirmed to have never left the site, escaped with his only surviving son Qusay and his younger son Uday.

While the CIA was identifying the remains of the late Iraqi president Saddam fled to Tikrit. From his home town Saddam followed the ancient smuggling routes between Tikrit and Iran to the east finally slipping into Syria to the West.

Saddam Hussein is currently believed to be held up in a fortress in Tikrit.

[JustPiper]

Al Hawijah now threatens to be the scene of Saddam’s final battle

I was looking for a map for the last week to find this town and did. A week ago Dan Gourea(sp) a retired military man on MSNBC, said Al Hawijah would be the worse battle, not Tikirit. He said because this is where they were hiding all the WMD's. Now, a few days later, about 2-3 days ago this area was of interest to the CIA because there was heavy fighting, and Dan said where there is heavy fighting, they are hiding something.

So I know this is right and it is either Sadam, the WMD's or both. I never believed he went to Syria.

[JustPiper]

One well placed tactical nuke....

This is exactly what I felt was the reason MOAB made it to the theater.

[JustPiper]

The first couple of hits must've been of Saddam's doubles.

I believe so, but I don't think his bodyguard knew that the second time ;)

[fire_eye]

Exactly. You get it!!

And hopefully we will continue killing him apace, across the Middle East, leaving a vast trail of dead Islamic warriors in our wake...

Same goes for Bin Ladin - as long as we don't catch him, we can keep killing him too...

[lndrvr1972]

No need to look, he is France in one of Chirac's homes.

[Lord_Baltar]

Well, what about that MOAB bomb, that might make an interesting mess of Saddam's "Cunning Plan"

If they do drop it, I wish someone would write on it "With Love from PFC Jessica Lynch"

And also write the names of EVERY US Soldier Killed in getting Iraq outta his greasy fingers.

[Boot Hill]

According to The Sun:   "[The village of] Al Hawijah — about 60 miles north-east of Tikrit and 50 miles west of Kirkuk..."

This story is bogus!

Since Kirkuk is 70 miles north-east of Tikrit, there is no point on a map of Iraq that is "60 miles north-east of Tikrit and 50 miles west of Kirkuk", or even close to those coordinates. And according to the Geographic Names Database (maintained by NIMA), there is no town named anything like "Al Hawijah" anywhere in Iraq.

Saddam Hussein has been dead since the first night of the battle when his bunker was targeted by bunker-buster bombs dropped from F-117's.

--Boot Hill

[demosthenes the elder]

all targets concentrated on one locus?
Four words: Drop a red pill.