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| Iraq |
| Decapitated? |
| 2003-03-21 |
| ABCNEWS' Brian Ross reported that three critical Iraqi officials — Taha Yasin Ramadan, Izzat Ibrahim al Douri, and Ali Hassan Majid, known as Chemical Ali — are believed to have died in Wednesday night's "decapitation attack," the opening salvo of the war. That's probably too much to ask, to get all three of them — putting them all in one place would be a damned dumbass thing to do... But it's Sammy we're talking about, so it could be true. A spokesman said the CIA had no information to confirm the report that the three men had been killed but government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told ABCNEWS they had reason to believe the three men were dead. Like not being on station, running things... The officials said they reached this conclusion from analysis of radio traffic and after watching who went where, and who didn't arrive where they were expected. The three men did not appear in a videotape of Saddam meeting with advisers released today. Also absent was Saddam's eldest son Odai. There are suspicions he also may have been killed, but this could not be confirmed. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |