| Submit your comments on this article |
| Iraq |
| The rats are jumping ship... |
| 2003-02-14 |
| It's from Debka.... so it could be right.... could be wrong.... interesting nevertheless... Adib Shaaban, the right hand of Saddam Hussein’s powerful son Uday, has defected. DEBKA-Net-Weekly reports exclusively that this key member of Saddam Hussein’s administration, who was charged with his son’s most sensitive missions, traveled to Jeddah at the beginning of this week, saying he needed to put through some gold transactions ahead of the war. uh... I'm just going to run to the bank guys.... be right back... From Jeddah, he flew to Beirut and
disappeared. US intelligence sources report that Shaaban never really went to Beirut. He made his way under cover to Damascus Monday and was picked up by an unmarked plane for an unknown destination. As Uday’s closest aide, he also managed a chain of official publications, including the authoritative Babel, and was in on the Saddam regime’s deepest secrets. Uday commands the secret army known as Saddam’s Fedayeen, the backbone of Baghdad’s defenses and custodian of the weapons of mass destruction that were not smuggled out to Lebanon. Uday is also the chief of the ruling Baath Party’s covert service. Shaaban must therefore be a veritable treasury of Saddam Hussein’s secrets. In American hands, Uday’s chef de bureau would be even more valuable than the proverbial smoking gun. |
| Posted by:----------<<<<-- |
| #3 Uday is the dumb one. (Someone has to say it!) |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2003-02-14 10:13:46 |
| #2 Story also appears on Al Bawaba.com: A top aide to Uday Saddam Hussein, elder son of the Iraqi President, has defected to the West and been spirited out of Lebanon, an Iraqi opposition official said Thursday. Iraqi dissidents reported Wednesday that Adeeb Shaaban, a former aide to Uday, had defected while visiting Lebanon. The reports have been denied by the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut. "Adeeb Shaaban is now in a safe place outside the Arab world," Mashaan Jebouri, the Syria-based leader of the Homeland Party, an Iraqi opposition group, told The Associated Press. "The US Embassy (in Beirut) should be asked where it took Shaaban," Jebouri added. A spokeswoman for the US Embassy in the Lebanese capital said she had heard a rumor about an Iraqi man's defection, but she could not confirm it. "I cannot comment on a rumor," spokeswoman Candace Putnam said Thursday. Another Iraqi opposition figure, Bayan Jaber of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, said in Damascus on Thursday that Shaaban had defected but was still in Beirut. The press attache at the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut, Nouri al-Tamimi, dismissed the reports of Shaaban's defection as "totally untrue". "These reports are part of a hostile campaign against Iraq," al-Tamimi told the Lebanon News Agency. Al-Tamimi denied that Shaaban was an aide to Saddam's son, saying he was the head of an Iraqi photography association. Iraq is denying he defected, so it must be true. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-02-14 09:42:30 |
| #1 Story also appears on Al Bawaba.com: A top aide to Uday Saddam Hussein, elder son of the Iraqi President, has defected to the West and been spirited out of Lebanon, an Iraqi opposition official said Thursday. Iraqi dissidents reported Wednesday that Adeeb Shaaban, a former aide to Uday, had defected while visiting Lebanon. The reports have been denied by the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut. "Adeeb Shaaban is now in a safe place outside the Arab world," Mashaan Jebouri, the Syria-based leader of the Homeland Party, an Iraqi opposition group, told The Associated Press. "The US Embassy (in Beirut) should be asked where it took Shaaban," Jebouri added. A spokeswoman for the US Embassy in the Lebanese capital said she had heard a rumor about an Iraqi man's defection, but she could not confirm it. "I cannot comment on a rumor," spokeswoman Candace Putnam said Thursday. Another Iraqi opposition figure, Bayan Jaber of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, said in Damascus on Thursday that Shaaban had defected but was still in Beirut. The press attache at the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut, Nouri al-Tamimi, dismissed the reports of Shaaban's defection as "totally untrue". "These reports are part of a hostile campaign against Iraq," al-Tamimi told the Lebanon News Agency. Al-Tamimi denied that Shaaban was an aide to Saddam's son, saying he was the head of an Iraqi photography association. Iraq is denying he defected, so it must be true. |
| Posted by: Steve 2/14/2003 9:42:30 AM |