Saddam, sons have fled: Ex-aide

The Peninsula ^ | 4/7/2003 7:17:0 | Agencies

[loudmouths]

As US forces tightened their grip on Baghdad, President Saddam Hussein, along with his two sons, fled the capital three days ago for his home town of Tikrit, 175km to the north, media reports said.

[dfwgator]

Tikrit is going to look like Dresden pretty soon.

[Nagilum]

I'll second that...I'd support a Dresden of Tikrit because the people there are probably the only ones in the country where most would actually fight for him.

Of course they won't, but I say torch it...

[Hodar]

Saddam is such a liar.
"I would never set fire to the oil wells; this is Iraq's future"
"I will never accept exile, nor flee; I will stay and fight"
"I have no biological or chemical agents"

Maybe he should try to get the Democratic nomination....

[stuartcr]

I'm not sure the non-combatants in Tikrit would agree.

[chance33_98]

“I have been informed that once he had firm evidence that the Americans were closing in on Baghdad, he fled to his home town of Tikrit,” claimed Haitham Rashid Wihaib, Saddam’s former Chief of Protocol in The Mail.

Uh...I thought baghdad bob said we weren't in Baghdad? Guess saddam is not listening to his own reports :)

[CholeraJoe]

President Saddam Hussein, along with his two sons, fled the capital three days

In a Hefty bag maybe.

[TLBSHOW]

dead is what they are along with saddam!

[Kenton]

Yeah, Tikrit has been saved for last. It's Sodom's home town and the home of the Ba'ath Party. Perhaps this is where the gloves come off and we get to see the MOAB.

[KriegerGeist]

"Maybe he should try to get the Democratic nomination...."

I'm serious when I say that he could beat Kerry and perhaps AlGore in the primary.

[hispanarepublicana]

I wonder if this is where the II Marine Expeditionary is headed....there is a thread in Breaking News that they have been secretly laying in wait NW of Baghdad, near the Jordanian border.

[loudmouths]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,931167,00.html

Fresh US force will blaze a trail to Saddam's town

[Dave S]

As much as I would love to firebomb or nuke Tikrit, we want to be able to show a body that is recognizably Saddams. Without that it will be hard to get the people to believe he is really gone. Toasting him Dresden style wouldnt accomlish that objective.

[Blood of Tyrants]

He would get at least a third of the Rat vote if he did.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

>>"Maybe he should try to get the Democratic nomination...."

What do you mean? She's already a Senator from New York!!??

[smokinleroy]

Saddam wants his mommy!!

[templar]

I'm not sure the non-combatants in Tikrit would agree.

That's what they get for being non-combatants. If you're gonna be killed anyway, take as many with you as you can. But, maybe, that's one of the reasons we're trying to minimize civilian deaths.

[LS]

This is, if I had to guess, EXACTLY where they are headed.

[stuartcr]

Personally, I don't think non-cambatants deserve to be dresdened. Just because they happen to have been born there, doesn't make them an enemy. I'm glad we're trying to minimiz their deaths.

[scooter2]

Maybe he should try to get the Democratic nomination....

Knowing how screwed up the DNC has become, he'd probably make it.