[Boundless]

> Chemical Ali dead?

That makes his third death so far.

Here are two separate reports from 2003-03-31:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/881538/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/880770/posts

Not to mention speculation that he was in the bunker with
El Grando Moustacho on Day0.

[thegreatbeast]

It's going to be very hard to identify bodies if we go after these personalities with artillery and bombs. If we don't get in front of this, we'll have it around our neck like the UBL myth. Better get the word out now- we think these guys are dead but it don't matter they are out of the game and can't field a team. We have to put the onus on Saddam, Uday, Qusay and Chemical Bob et al to prove their existence beyond a reasonable doubt. Make them promenade down the Champs d'Elysee or something. We don't have to produce DNA samples of their deaths.

[Cicero]

Sources said he had taken to moving from building to building under cover of darkness to ward off attack and never stays in one place for more than a few hours.

For practical purposes of fighting the war, it doesn't much matter if these guys are dead. Their communications have been cut, and they can't show their faces without risking assassination or allied bombs. They can't meet with their generals or inspect their troops.

Even before the war, Saddam was unwilling to let anyone he didn't trust into his presence. That meant that his orders had to be relayed through others. Since the whole war machine is built so it cannot act without instructions from above, that means that it has been basically headless since the war began, whether or not these guys are clinically dead.

After the war, of course, it would be nice to identify their bodies. But as many have pointed out, we never found Hitler's body, and as it turned out it wasn't all that important except for a few thriller writers.

[8mmMauser]

His closest friends now just call him Chemical. Those even closer call him Spot.

[The Great Satan]

This war has been a tremendous lesson for all of us in the power of spin, propaganda and news management. More and more, it looks like Clinton was a piker at those arts compared to Bush.

[pttttt]

D*mn, how much killing does this fool require? ;-)