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Saddam's Bodyguard spills beans
Posted: 2003-02-04 01:32pm
by Alex Moon
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common ... 63,00.html
Abu Hamdi Mahmoud has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited.
They include:
AN underground chemical weapons facility at the southern end of the Jadray Peninsula in Baghdad;
A SCUD assembly area near Ramadi. The missiles come from North Korea;
TWO underground bunkers in Iraq's Western Desert. These contain biological weapons.
William Tierney, a former UN weapons inspector who has continued to gather information on Saddam's arsenal, said Mahmoud's information is "the smoking gun".
"Once the inspectors go to where Mahmoud has pointed them, then it's all over for Saddam," Tierney said.
Tierney, who has high-level contacts in Washington that go to the White House, said the information we publish today on Mahmoud's revelations "checks out, absolutely checks out".
Posted: 2003-02-04 02:56pm
by Darth Fanboy
Time to send in Uncle Sam's finest it looks like...missles from North Korea though, damn this isn't cool. Hawkeye Pierce will have to go back to Korea.
Posted: 2003-02-04 02:58pm
by Admiral Valdemar
This legit? I remember it being posted on SB.com but not looking too reputable.
Posted: 2003-02-04 03:02pm
by Captain tycho
Pretty sure it's legit.
I saw something on CNN.com about it.
Then again, who knows?
Re: Saddam's Bodyguard spills beans
Posted: 2003-02-04 03:02pm
by Enlightenment
Abu Hamdi Mahmoud has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited.
Does not compute. Why tell the Israelis rather than the Americans? The average Iraqi doesn't like Amricans all that much but they regard the Israelis in a bout the same light as most people regard child rapists.
This stinks too much like invented proof.
Posted: 2003-02-04 03:21pm
by tharkûn
Why tell Israel? Because the Mossad has better penetration into Arab countries (including the infamous sleeper cells), offers better bribes, and has been known to do some seriously whack crap. It may be quite simple that the guy is being handled by a Mossad operative and not a CIA operative.
Posted: 2003-02-04 03:23pm
by Mr Bean
Why tell Isreal?
Simple Isreal got him and his family out of the country
Posted: 2003-02-04 03:33pm
by phongn
I haven't seen anything corraborating it on the major news outlets, either. At least not from a quick glance at Google News, which probably would have picked this up .
Posted: 2003-02-04 03:54pm
by Einhander Sn0m4n
North Korea?
Guess we'll be seeing Klinger in a dress again real soon...
Posted: 2003-02-04 04:27pm
by Enlightenment
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Guess we'll be seeing Klinger in a dress again real soon...
http://globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/n ... 183418.htm
Better hope this one doesn't really blow up in Shrubby's face.
Posted: 2003-02-04 05:30pm
by The Dark
From what I read elsewhere, the story's by Gordon Thomas, a somewhat eccentric journalist/novelist who considers himself an expert on the intelligence community. All I know about him is he's Irish, so maybe some of the Europeans may have heard more about him and his reputation than I have.
Posted: 2003-02-04 05:36pm
by Ted
Why the hell would one of Saddams body guards leave?
They probably live in the best conditions of any body there.
They would be the most loyal of all Iraqis.
Posted: 2003-02-04 05:37pm
by Mr Bean
They would be the most loyal of all Iraqis.
Says alot if he acutal did leave
Posted: 2003-02-04 05:52pm
by CmdrWilkens
The fact that CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, Fox, NBC, and Reuters all have nothing on this says a lot more.
Posted: 2003-02-04 06:02pm
by Mr Bean
The fact that CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, Fox, NBC, and Reuters all have nothing on this says a lot more.
After they found over 400 pages of Nuclear Documents in a Iraq Scientists house no one else reported it for over two weeks, a week after it was first reported
Posted: 2003-02-04 06:05pm
by Sea Skimmer
Ted wrote:Why the hell would one of Saddams body guards leave?
They probably live in the best conditions of any body there.
They would be the most loyal of all Iraqis.
Perhaps being woken up a night and being asked if he's with or aginst "us" as a test of loyalties, wrong answer gets a bullet, made him want to switch jobs.
Posted: 2003-02-04 06:21pm
by HemlockGrey
Even more material to use against my rabid antiwar friend...
Posted: 2003-02-04 09:17pm
by Exonerate
I'm sure that Iraq won't move them after CNN publishes that stuff
