Details on Assassination of Iraq Leadership (Baghdad Bob Lives!)

Arabic News and Jordanian Paper 'Al Dotsour' ^ | April 14, 2003 | politics wire staff

[ewing]

Well informed sources told the Jordanian Daily Al Dotsour yesterday that an operation of collective assassination was made by American-British forces on the Iraqi leadership and was carried out, according to an intelligence plan in the Al Mansour suburb of Baghdad.

The sources said that two of the dissident Senior Iraqi Military Leaders coordinated with one of the Leaders of the Republican Guard in an operation to monitor the date and place of a meeting for the Iraqi leadership, noting that the Senior Member of the Republican Guard carried out this mission completely.

The paper explained that he was informed by the two opposition leaders that the Iraqi leadership will be meeting in an old house in the Al Mansour Quarters and following that the American planes bombarded the place.

The source added that the said plan also stated that the Senior Leader of the Republican Guard was due after the assassination of the Iraqi leadership to give his orders for the Republican Guards and the army to gather their arms in three positions in Baghdad and to return back to their houses until the forces were summoned again. And this is what happened.

The source stressed that all members of the Iraqi Leadership were assassinated except the Minister of Information Muhammaed Saeed Al-Sahaf and the Vice President Izzat Ibrahim.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

That is a distinct possibility. It does seem to stretch the imagination how he was able to go about his business for 3 weeks and not take a scratch, up until and including the time when units were barely a mile away from him.

His press conferences are now the stuff of legend, and did considerable harm to the Arab Street's opinion of their own journalists.

[CyberAnt]

"Republican Guards and the army to gather their arms in three positions in Baghdad and to return back to their houses until the forces were summoned again"

I don't like the sound of that ..??