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| Izzat Ibrahim hangs it up | |||
| 2003-12-17 | |||
| Kept us waiting for this all day yesterday... THE reputed head of the Iraqi insurgency surrendered to US forces at dawn yesterday, Al-Arabiya television reported last night. The reported surrender of Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the highest ranking member of the former regime still at large, follows the arrest at the weekend of two leaders of the insurgency along with Saddam Hussein.
Al-Bawaba sez it ain't so, but that might be before the news.com.au article... A high ranking officer in Iraqâs Ministry of Interior on Tuesday told Al Bawaba that former Iraqi vice president Izzat Ibrahim Al Douri has not yet turned himself to the Americans. General Nouri Al Nouri denied rumors about the surrender of Al Douri in a phone call with Al Bawaba.
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| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Izzat Ibrahim hangs it up Too many words in this headline... please trim by two. |
| Posted by: snellenr 2003-12-17 11:34:51 AM |
| #3 I hope it is true, though I'm not going to hold my breath in the meanwhile. If Izzy HAS thrown in the towel, it'll break what little spirit the native Iraqi Ba'athists had left after Saddam's pathetic little "I am the President of Iraqi, I want to negociate!" non-event. (Or, as Chris Dee, a favorite author of mine, once said in a chapter of her novel, "CatTales", "That was the most magnificent display of cowardice ever seen without the aid of the Scarecrow's fear gas!") Not that it will do much to quell the non-Iraqi rent-a-fools, they'll still come to Iraqi with their guns, bomb belts and whatnot, but we've gotten a handle on that. Won't be easy, I'm not fool enough to think it will be, but it CAN be done. We can do it. Ed Becerra. |
| Posted by: Ed Becerra 2003-12-17 1:33:57 AM |
| #2 Damn! My ululator's still sore from Sunday... Too funny, Fred! So true. So's mine from Sunday, Monday and now Tuesday because I've been ululating and firing my AK-47 into the air over both Saddam and now the Dim shark feed on Ho Ho Dean. This is the 3rd report we've had that Al-Douri's given up--it must be true, so maybe we should spell each other on the celebrations and blend them in with Christmas carols, too! |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-17 12:41:22 AM |
| #1 I don't know, I enjoy some grim satisfaction to putting these scumbags in a cage, but there's too much work to be done to have a party. And by that, I mean serious bullets-in-the-head work, not kissey-face st. dept. kind of work. I do think the IGC tries this mutt before rolling out saddam. Get the evidence on the record, let the eurocommies have a good look, then skin the big fish. And let the iraqis do it, otherwise it turns into another milosevic showboat propaganda stage. Stupid euros. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2003-12-17 12:19:15 AM |