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To: TimF who wrote (164591)	3/17/2003 4:58:56 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1572675

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 Message 18709990

To: TimF who wrote (164591)	3/17/2003 5:37:46 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572675

Tim, Interesting that Blair is getting support from The Observer. It is a leftist newspaper, IIRC. Joe

To: TimF who wrote (164591)	3/18/2003 12:11:30 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572675

Tim Re...Tipped for a senior role in a future Iraqi government, Barham Salih is Prime Minister of the Kurdistan region in Sulaymaniyah, northern Iraq. Here he appeals to the British Left to back a war to depose Saddam Hussein Sunday March 16, 2003 The Observer observer.co.uk; Tim, did you notice this part of that article. Ted is trying to claim Saddam is a not so terrible guy, in that Saddam has only killed 500,000. This guy claims Saddam is responsible for over 2 million. Ethnic cleansing began in Iraq in 1963, when the Baath Party seized power and started expelling Kurds from their homes. Settling Arabs in Iraqi Kurdistan remains official policy. Around a million people have been displaced, mostly Kurds but also Turkomans and Assyrian Christians. Ethnic cleansing continues as non-Arabs are evicted from Kirkuk and other parts of Kurdistan still controlled by the regime. Kirkuk is the Kurds' Bosnia. This regime has cost the lives of at least two million Iraqis. Four million more have been forced to become refugees. Iraqi Kurdistan is filled with the mass graves of victims of genocide - the Anfal campaign that in 1987-88 may have killed as many as 182,000 Kurds. Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Iraqi chemical weapons attack on Halabja that killed 5,000 Kurds