Top Iraqi leadership disappears

The Alanta Journal Constitution ^ | 4/10/03 | By DANA PRIEST and WALTER PINCUS

[loudmouths]

Secret CIA and military teams in Iraq and surveillance devices set up to monitor Saddam Hussein's inner circle Wednesday reported that nearly the entire Iraqi leadership had vanished.

.S. military commanders said they suspected that some leaders had headed to Saddam's hometown of Tikrit for a final bloody showdown and that others had fled to Syria. Dogged fighting by Iraqi forces at Qaim, near the Syrian border, has led some U.S. and British officials to suspect that Iraqi troops there may be protecting important Iraqi leaders or family members, although it was not clear whom.

[dodger]

Perhaps 'the entire Iraqi leadership' vanished the other night in theat posh 'JDAM Restaurant' ...

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm? How many are burried under tons of rock in Monsur...??

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[loudmouths]

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[Rockitz]

Hmmmm.... This is somewhat scary. I wonder if they are preparing to nuke/gas/flood/bioterror Baghdad now that they are out of harms way?

[Future Useless Eater]

Hint, a TUNNEL to the Russian Embassy.

Or some other foreign embassy.

Once they're on the embassy's property, we can't touch
them. They are in another country.

Of course, if we know exactly WHICH embassy, it might
be difficult for them to ever leave that compound.

[loudmouths]

Tikrit could be the last stand. There is concern.

[PhilDragoo]

I understand there's a move afoot to rename Tikrit Moab.

Haven't any idea what that's about.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Dogged fighting by Iraqi forces at Qaim, near the Syrian border, has led some U.S. and British officials to suspect that Iraqi troops there may be protecting important Iraqi leaders or family members, although it was not clear whom.]

Let's greet 'em with MOAB.

[ladyinred]

Let's greet 'em with MOAB.

From your lips to God's ears.

[loudmouths]

Makes you wonder why it was brought over to Iraq at this point in the game.

[snickeroon]

The Pentagon might be listening in as well..... enough said.

[Irish Eyes]

I understand there's a move afoot to rename Tikrit Moab.

Haven't any idea what that's about.

Can hardly wait for the renaming ceremony.

[Free Vulcan]

We simply need to show them the road to the land of MOAB.

[snickeroon]

Come to think of it, isn't this the general area (Tikrit) of Moab in Isaiah..... (Chapters 13 and 14).

P.S. You gotta' wonder if there is a clock in the belly of the croc..... remember Peter Pan?

[Mike Darancette]

I think that the leaders are holed up under the city. Biding their time until an escape can be made.

They will try to leave in small groups when things settle down.

I'm wondering when we will start exploring the underground.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Tikrit could be the last stand. There is concern.

Bavarian Redoubt

[loudmouths]

Could very well be like Germany's "National Redoubt"