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| Iraq |
| Report: Saddam wearing explosive belt |
| 2003-07-30 |
| The ousted Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, is wearing an explosive belt and plans to activate it when he feels US forces are closing on him, the London-based Arabic language newspaper, AlHayat reported on Wednesday. Quoting "various Iraqi sources", the daily said Saddam has been wearing the belt, since the killing last week of his two sons, Uday and Qusay. "See, we had to shoot him before he set off the bomb belt. That’s why we couldn’t take him prisoner, we wouldn’t want any innocent Iraqi citizens hurt by pieces of flying Saddam." (CENTCOM PIO practicing for the press conference after Sammy gets wacked.) |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #23 AP,That is a hell of away to make hamburger. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-7-31 11:41:10 AM |
| #22 AP--That wasn't you that blew up that beached whale off Oregon a few years ago, was it? Man, you have one sick hobby! |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-7-30 11:15:51 PM |
| #21 I'd like to add that we should shoot him and spare ourselves about five years of liberal sniveling and whining over the death sentence at the World Court of "public opinion". I would modify the wanted poster to say that if we take him alive the reward is $25.00 and if we can kill his sorry @$$ the reward is $25.0 million...maybe like the old bounty on coyotes, we should only ask for his head and the fingers off his right hand for proof. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-7-30 10:48:34 PM |
| #20 If we capture this "person", we'll have nut job Iraqi Baathists pulling hostage gigs all over the world with ole Sammy as the ransom. Just like everytime we would corral a PFLF or Black September guy alive, the next thing you know, BANG, a highjacked airplane, oceanliner, or office building with the little note: "Give us Achmed the Glorious I'd like to see a hostage thingee at CBS and take bets on how many of those talking heads get their IQ's raised before we send in the Delta Force. |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-7-30 10:45:21 PM |
| #19 I blew up a carcass of a horse that had fallen in a trail creek crossing and died with 2 cases of 40% dynamite. Parted out the leg ends and head. The rest was schrapnel in the trees. It was quite gross--both before and after the duPont vest. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-7-30 6:47:04 PM |
| #18 I just hope that they trap him in the crapper before he blows. |
| Posted by: Paul 2003-7-30 5:40:26 PM |
| #17 Don't cut the red wire! |
| Posted by: SPQR 2755 2003-7-30 4:18:24 PM |
| #16 Does the head usually remain after using a suicide belt? "Hey, here's Saddam! No wait, he's here! And over here! And more little pieces of him here, here, and here! And over there is yet another piece, and........." |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-7-30 4:04:39 PM |
| #15 They just released a new video of Saddam, but he doesn't appear to be wearing the belt? |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-7-30 3:05:55 PM |
| #14 Fred, PD's right, this one needed a warning label. Although I should have had enough sense to put down the coffee first. |
| Posted by: Matt 2003-7-30 2:05:46 PM |
| #13 Question #1 - Does Banana Republic make suicide belts? Question #2 - Do suicide belts come in the 44 inch waist size? |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-7-30 1:52:04 PM |
| #12 Not necessarily. LGF(?) linked to a pic last year(?)and the head was blown "clean off." The pic showed it "standing" straight up. Morbid, but interesting. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-7-30 12:55:16 PM |
| #11 Coffee Alert!!! Fred - need to move this comment upstream as a warning - they're on a roll, today! |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-30 12:50:23 PM |
| #10 If you see him, just yell, "Great Uncle, look out, it's the Americans!" and then put your fingers in your ears. |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-7-30 12:49:28 PM |
| #9 I hear they're issuing dustpans and spatulas to the search teams... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-7-30 12:36:25 PM |
| #8 All this time I thought a "beltbuster" was an extra large shake. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-7-30 12:09:27 PM |
| #7 Enough to go around to share with everyone! |
| Posted by: Don 2003-7-30 11:52:59 AM |
| #6 Zhang Fei: no problem with the public viewing. A view Zip Loc bags, some sponges, and a freezer with a glass door. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-7-30 11:41:13 AM |
| #5 Will all the King's horses and all the King's men be able to identify Humpty and pay the reward? No problem - we have Uday and Qusay for DNA samples. A public viewing of the corpse might be a problem, though. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-7-30 11:18:42 AM |
| #4 Yank - yes, though it'll be scorched and somewhat misshapen from the concussion. I had the misfortune of personally seeing an "aftermath" once from a guy wearing what was described as a "vest" - so I figure a belt would about the same or slightly less due to proximity. The power of the device would come into play, of course. So I guess there are 2 questions: 1) Is Saddam going lug around enuff to try to take out a room - or a building? 2) Will all the King's horses and all the King's men be able to identify Humpty and pay the reward? |
| Posted by: PD 2003-7-30 11:07:31 AM |
| #3 As long as the head is identifiable I don't care what happens to the rest. Does the head usually remain after using a suicide belt? |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-7-30 11:01:10 AM |
| #2 The new Tammy Wynette video for "I Fall to Pieces"? |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-7-30 10:45:17 AM |
| #1 a $25 million "work accident" in the making? Call OSHA! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-30 10:13:51 AM |