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| Saddam orders agents to kill Iraqi opposition leaders in UK |
| 2002-11-03 |
| Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has instructed agents to kill Iraqi opposition leaders based in Britain to prevent them from forming an alternative government if he is overthrown. British and American intelligence officials have received information in the past week that Saddam has issued a presidential decree authorising the murder of leading members of the Iraqi opposition "by any means necessary," The Sunday Telegraph said. Doesn't sound like that French diplomacy's working like it should... He is also said to have approached Libyan leader Muammar Kadhafi — who is known to have a network of "sleeper" agents in Britain and Europe — to help him to target Iraqi dissidents, the paper said. That won't work real well if Muammar's busy cavorting with scantily clad maidens outside the Arab League... Details of the decree, which were sent from Saddam's base in Baghdad to Iraqi security officials in Europe and the West Asia last week, were intercepted by British officials at a listening complex in Cheltenham, central England, according to the report. Saddam's instructions have also been picked up by CIA spy satellites and by agents in the West Asia, the paper added. If that's where the info came from, it certainly shouldn't have gotten out. I suspect it may not have and that this is a rumor... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |