Surgical Strike

Gonz

Gonz

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Seems to have been just a little off...too bad

Around 4 p.m. yesterday, Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet offered President Bush the prospect -- improbable to the point of fantasy, yet somehow at hand -- that the war against Iraq might be transformed with its opening shots. The CIA, Tenet said, believed it had a fix on President Saddam Hussein.

Hussein and others in "the most senior levels of the Iraqi leadership," ordinarily among the most elusive of men, had fallen under U.S. surveillance. The unforeseen glimpse of the enemy was not expected to last, and so presented what one administration official called "a target of opportunity" that might not reappear. Not only did the agency know where Hussein was, according to the official's description of Tenet's briefing, but it believed with "a high probability" that he would remain there for hours to come -- cloistered with his war council in an isolated private residence in southern Baghdad.

Bush listened calmly -- as his aides portrayed the scene -- while Tenet described the sources and limits of his information, the likelihood that it was true and the length of time Hussein could be expected to spend at the site. The Iraqi president, a man of many palaces, avoids them at moments of maximum risk. He is said by analysts to be a kind of refugee in the country he rules, moving constantly and without predictable pattern. There was no guarantee, Tenet said, that Hussein's whereabouts would be pinpointed again.
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It's probably posted elsewher & I haven't gotten to it but it may have been closser than first thought.

Officially, saddam is alive & well, non-officially: he was seen being brought out on a stretcher, with an oxygen mask attached to his face & there is thought that he's gravely injured or possible, shall we hope, dead. quite possibly he & his immediate cohorts were taken out of teh war on teh first shots(s)

20 or so cruise missiles & the F-117 carried two 1 ton bunker busters.
 
it's only getting better

WASHINGTON — Saddam Hussein is seen being placed on a stretcher and into an ambulance in photographs in the possession of the U.S. government showing what is described as "panicked digging" at the bunker/command-and-control facility that was struck in the first strike of the war March 19, U.S. officials told Fox News late Friday.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81847,00.html
 
Hussein and others in "the most senior levels of the Iraqi leadership," ordinarily among the most elusive of men, had fallen under U.S. surveillance.
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Pretty easy to track when he keeps all the guard units together and we know he's going to be right in the middle of them.
 
Great theory.

The US started the Terek Azziz is dead rumor. Wait for him to come to the TV studio to disprove it. Laugh all the way back to saddams place, behind his #1 Christian friend.
 
Time said:
The smoke rose above Baghdad in plumes of thick, black soot, carrying with it the ashes of a dying regime. The nights were full of fire and noise, as thousands of Tomahawk missiles and smart bombs crashed into their targets, sending up balloons of searing orange flame into the night sky. In the light of day, calm descended on the city's streets, and the silence was pierced only by the crackle of burning buildings and the wail of emergency sirens. Iraqi officials angrily prevented reporters from venturing near the scenes of destruction, but word spread quickly among the hardened citizens of the city what exactly had been destroyed. Three days into the American war on Saddam Hussein, the soaring government buildings and opulent palaces that once stood on the banks of the Tigris River were gone. Even if Saddam and his most trusted aides somehow managed to survive a bombing campaign expressly designed to kill them, their tyranny appeared ready to crumble with the foundations of their fortresses. It seemed to be only a matter of time.
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Back to the beginning.

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence sources have been unable to confirm that Saddam Hussein survived the March 19 strike on a bunker where he was believed to be staying, a top Pentagon general said Monday.





That information comes from the same intelligence sources that pinpointed Saddam's location before the airstrike, said Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"That doesn't mean he's dead, but he's not visible publicly and he's not been seen or reported to have been seen by anybody," Pace said on PBS' NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.
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It serves no purpose to keep his health an uncertainty,but valid proof he was alive would be helpful to Iraqi Government.It would be very easy to provide undeniable proof if he was alive ,even if he was badly wounded an audio broadcast would be possible.All the videos are very generic with their content that could have easily been done months ago.

Saddam is Dead
 
I think he's either dead or at least mortally wounded. He's far too arrogant to stay concealed this long. He would have at least done some kind of radio address if he could talk.
 
Well, we see him about everyday on TV assuring his people victory is almost there and mentioning recent facts. So it seems to me he is not dead. But then, these could be one of his look-a-likes.
 
Where do you get TV at? I've seen him maybe three times, one was obviously a prepared speech, one was practicing a speech, and the third had no audio whatsoever.
 
TODAY 8PM, Baghdad time, see your beloved leader LIVE....

[8PM]He's ugh, doing....waiting...busy, yea, that's it busy so I, the chief governor & head minister of information (read: propaganda) will tell you what our beloved & benevolent leader has to say. "blah blah blah"


Wasn't that like yelling at the top of thier lungs, HE'S DEAD!!!
 
Nope. Arrogant as Saddam is purported to be, he's also not stupid. Him showing up on live TV is a certain death sentence. If he shows his face, he'll get a few more cruise missiles raining on his parade...if not a hellfire from a predator. ;)
 
Who said anything about LIVE tv? Even a taped segment with irrefutable proof ,reading off a bunch of names of battalions and commanders that were edited together isn't good enough.A recent newspaper or specific references such as POW names etc..
 
A :45 second sound bite, from 300' underground with 8' reinforced concrete isn't going anywhere. He could go live & then split. AB's plan works for me. Show the latest NY Times, sitting on your desk & read the headline & laugh at us.

He's dead or so seriously hurt he may as well be.
 
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