SADDAM 'MAY BE DEAD' - EGYPTIAN INTELLIGENCE
Saddam Hussein has had a major stroke and may even be dead, according to Egyptian security sources.
The Iraqi dictator has not been seen since a New Year’s Day parade when he was shown on Iraqi TV firing his gun into the air. Reports say he was taking the salute from his military when he collapsed.
Sky News sources in Baghdad say that while all is quiet on the streets of the Iraqi capital there has been increased troop movement around Saddam’s presidential palace.
Showing off
The military parade on Sunday was the biggest since the Gulf War and was a chance to show off sophisticated surface-to-surface, anti-aircraft missiles plus over 1,000 modern Russian-made tanks.
None of the missiles violate UN arms control restrictions imposed after the Gulf War when Iraq invaded neighbouring Kuwait.
Saddam has survived more than a decade of UN sanctions against Iraq for the invasion, but the country’s infrastructure has been severely damaged.
Death
The Iraqi government claims that more than 10,000 people, most of them children, have died as a result of sanctions.
The UN does allow the sale of some of Iraq’s oil in exchange for medicine and food, but Saddam has been accused of spending the cash earned from oil on building presidential palaces and rebuilding his war machine........
www1.sky.com
Edit: Btw, the article predicted that Odai Hussein would seize the reins of power, but I would suspect that Qusai Hussein, who controls the Republican Guards and Secret Police will be the true power broker.
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