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| Iraq |
| Damn. Missed him. |
| 2003-04-08 |
| Saddam Hussein survived an attack on a building in Baghdad in which he was reported to have been meeting his sons Uday and Qusay on Monday afternoon, British intelligence sources said last night. "He was probably not in the building when it was bombed," a well-placed source said. The source added it was believed that President Saddam had been in the building earlier. The intelligence sources de scribed their view that President Saddam had not been killed in Monday's attack as a "preliminary assessment", presumably from intelligence in Baghdad. But the Pentagon said yesterday it could be days before it was known for certain who had died. At least 40 senior officials were understood to be meeting President Saddam and his sons in a bunker at the back of the building, connected to a restaurant. Iraqi officials said they found two bodies in the rubble and were searching for another 14 they thought were still buried, but said no members of the leadership had been killed. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 Bill Gertz (WaPo) says "We'll know in one or two days". (FOXNews, two minutes ago) |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2003-04-08 21:58:59 |
| #5 I agree with Parabellum on both points. Although I think it was probably a stupid idea for the administration to even do it in the first place the way that they did, I'm going to put my faith in them that they wouldn't bomb a civillian area with such mega-bombage on just a hunch. But damn if he wasn't in there that's really gonna suck! |
| Posted by: g wiz 2003-04-08 21:04:11 |
| #4 Iraqi officials said they found two bodies in the rubble and were searching for another 14 they thought were still buried, but said no members of the leadership had been killed. Take anything that "Iraqi officials" say with a grain of salt, until they prove they speak the truth. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-04-08 20:56:46 |
| #3 I dunno. One un-named source in Al Grauniad makes it so? I'm still waiting. I also seriously doubt the figure of 14 dead, but we'll never know if that's correct. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2003-04-08 20:55:06 |
| #2 Damn indeed. Still. All things considered, I'd rather he were strung up by irate Iraqis a la Mussolini than given the instant-whack-by-smartbomb, and the locals may yet have the chance. Saddam-as-strange-fruit is absolutely the *one* pic I most want to see from this war, the one I'll set as wallpaper on my computer and look at with satisfaction for weeks. |
| Posted by: jrosevear 2003-04-08 20:44:49 |
| #1 And worse, we killed a lot of locals who had nothing to do with the leadership, but who just happened in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dammit. |
| Posted by: Patrick Phillips 2003-04-08 20:32:13 |