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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (22157)	3/17/2003 10:13:04 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 25898

Iraqi Chemical Weapons Official Shot Trying to Escape By Times Online Times Online \| March 17, 2003 A SENIOR Baghdad official who feared for his life after helping to hide Saddam Hussein's chemical weapons was executed after he tried to flee the country, Iraqi sources revealed last week. Khalis Muhsin al-Tikriti, 35, had been working in the scientific department of the president's office under the authority of the Special Security Organisation (SSO), headed by Qusay Hussein, Saddam's younger son and political heir. Al-Tikriti, an engineer, had supervised an operation to bury a significant quantity of Saddam's chemical weapons before United Nations weapons inspectors arrived last November. Some weapons were buried near the river Tigris in the Baji area north of Baghdad during the operation, which was carried out by a specially formed group in the SSO. The Iraqi sources said that, in a chilling attempt to ensure that the location of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) remained secret, the SSO members who concealed them were executed. Al-Tikriti then tried to escape. "I think that he knew he would be executed after the killing of the people who participated in the burial of the WMD," said Abu Hajjaj, an Iraqi exile. Abu Hajjaj served for 20 years in the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi security service, and helped Saddam set up a European network before escaping when he came under suspicion. His information comes from former colleagues still serving under Saddam. While it is almost impossible to confirm the information independently, a second Iraqi source known to The Sunday Times for 15 years verified that Abu Hajjaj's information had proved correct in other cases. Before Republican Guards moved into Baghdad to defend the city, Abu Hajjaj correctly reported the plans; he also warned that trenches would be filled with oil and set ablaze. Pools of oil have now been observed from satellites. It is nearly two months since he first told The Sunday Times of the execution but only now, through sources in Baghdad, has he been able to obtain the victim's name. A Western intelligence source said his story "sounds credible", but could not confirm the name. Further evidence of merciless oppression has emerged in another incident. Several weeks ago, the Iraqi president decreed that anyone discussing reports that he might step down to avert a war would face execution. According to a western intelligence source who has verified the information, an Iraqi civilian named Mohammed Hadid, was later overheard talking of Saddam's possible exile. He was arrested by members of Saddam's Fedayeen, a militia headed by the president's eldest son Uday, and brought to Baghdad. There, he was tied to a post, his tongue was cut out and he was left to bleed to death. Al-Tikriti, the engineer, suffered a swifter but no less brutal death. He was allegedly shot in the head just after the UN inspectors' arrival. frontpagemagazine.com

To: zonder who wrote (22157)	3/17/2003 10:13:50 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Bite me. I'm tired of your endless justifications for a brutal, murdering regime..... Fact: 65,000 Iraqis, over 2/3 OF THEM children, die each year as a result of Saddam's brutal regime and its misuse of Oil for Peace revenues. Its time for Saddam and hsi brutal regime to go AND despite the dithering of cowards like you and other peace queers, Bush will make sure it happens. JLA

To: zonder who wrote (22157)	3/17/2003 11:30:59 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Good going Zonder. Anything you can present that will show the fallacy of JlAllen's arguments the better. Mostly it is just name calling anyway with nothing substantial. Last name he called me, hypocrite. Don't mind except could not even see the reference. In my teaching days he was a whipper snapper. That was the the term used for obstreperous kids. Only I think he is an adult albeit I have my doubts at times with HE HE HE HE HE HE HE HE. Notice, the thread has almost gone over to the HAWKS. It's their day. We who opposed the war have,methinks. Very sad.