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1) Uday and Qusey Dead. Again
2) Official Story on Deaths of Saddam's Sons "Wags the Dog"
3) America's Uday and Qusay Conjuring Trick
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1)
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=947
Posted 23/07/2003
Uday and Qusey Dead. Again.
Venik www.aeronautics.ru
In just a few short months since the beginning of the latest Iraqi campaign
the US forces claimed to have killed Saddam Hussein on at least four
different occasions. The number of false claims of Saddam’s demise was only
exceeded by the number of false WMD discoveries. Now Saddam’s two sons and
his 14-year-old grandson have taken their turn on the altar of Pentagon’s
propaganda machine.
There are many similarities between the previous claims of Saddam’s death
and the latest announcement by the US military that Saddam’s two sons were
killed in a firefight with the US troops. Naturally and as usual the big
news arrived with a certain degree of ambiguity: the bodies of the two
sons – Uday and Qusay – were extensively burned – possibly beyond
recognition – Reuters cited US military sources.
Suddenly, the US general became uncharacteristically optimistic. Now they
were absolutely certain that the two bodies discovered at the site of the
reported firefight were those of Saddam’s two sons and his grandson.
Supposedly, someone the bodies were not burned to the crisp after all but
just riddled with bullets. US generals reported that someone well familiar
with both Uday and Qusay identified their bodies.
Another commonality with the previous claims of successful attacks against
Iraqi leadership: the location of Saddam’s sons and his closest aides was
revealed to the US military by an Iraqi informant. This almost reminds me of
the tearful, albeit untrue, story of the rescue of Private Ryan. I mean
Private Lynch. Iraqi informant, a glorious battle fought by the US soldiers
and the pompous announcement by the US Army command in Qatar.
Just as when Saddam and his sons were killed in that restaurant bombing in
Baghdad in April, the DNA evidence is set to reveal the final truth about
the latest claim. Just as a reminder: in the April incident it turned out
that there was no Saddam or his sons in that restaurant. Hell, there was no
restaurant. Of course, there was no announcement of any DNA testing results.
The British MI6 kind of soured the milk for Pentagon by leaking
counterclaims to the press. Goddamned James Bonds.
One may also recall the bombing of the Baath party headquarters in Basra
during the early weeks of the war. Then the US military claimed that up to
200 Baath party members (including possibly the big man himself or his
brood) were killed. Apparently, the entire Baath party elite decided to
gather at the headquarters in Basra. This building has been constantly
bombed by the coalition ever since the war begun and practically had a
target sign painted on it. Can you think of a better place for Iraqi party
elite to hide? Apparently neither did the USAF command.
Saddam’s sons, the US military claims, have been “hiding” at a palatial
villa in Mosul – the huge home belonging to the local tribal leader. There
have been photos of it on Yahoo News a couple months back: the villa had US
“Abrams” tanks parked in front of it - another safe place for the Iraqi
leadership to weather out the US occupation. It’s like if Washington has
been occupied by the Russians and Bush was hiding in the Oval Office.
But the claim of Udey's and Qusey’s untimely demise did not go unnoticed:
the US troops got the MUCH needed morale boost after weeks of grim reports
from the occupied territories. And the US stock market is not doing too bad
either: whoever knew about the upcoming announcement of the possible death
of Uday and Qusay must have made a killing on the trading floor in just a
few short hours.
See Joe Vialls 'America's Uday and Qusay Conjuring Trick': a detailed
forensic analysis of the photos of a dead Uday Hussein, indicating a clear
case of forgery
www.joevialls.co.uk/transpositions/hussein.html
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2)
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307E.html
Official Story on Deaths of Saddam's Sons "Wags the Dog"
by Michel Chossudovsky
www.globalresearch.ca 26 July 2003
The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO307E.html
Michel Chossudovsky is the author of War and Globalisation, the Truth behind
September 11 , Global Outlook, 2002 (order online/mail/fax )
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The deaths of the sons of Saddam Hussein in a high profile "shoot-out" in
the northern city of Mosul arrive at a most opportune moment for President
Bush and his entourage.
Political assassination is tied into the logic of war propaganda. The
killings were designed by the Pentagon to uphold the shaky legitimacy of
the Anglo-American military axis in the face of Iraqi armed resistance to
occupation forces. In the words of President Bush: "their deaths show that
the former Iraqi regime will not be coming back."
By mobilizing media attention Worldwide on Saddam's two sons, the Mosul
event has served to distract Western public opinion from the broader issue
of war crimes committed by the Bush administration and its indefectible
British ally, not to mention the mysterious death of David Kelly, the senior
MI6 official who "pulled the plug" on Tony Blair.
Meanwhile, the fake Niger uranium dossier, used in Bush's State of the Union
address has been quietly sent to the news archives.
The Mosul shoot-out serves to "reduce the heat" and conceal the lies: "The
death of the two sons was greeted with jubilation in Washington, where
President George Bush has been under growing political pressure..."
(Washington Post, 24 July 2003)
While the entire Western news chain is inundated with the same unsavory
(syndicated) stories on Saddam's derelict son Uday, the more substantive
issue of phony intelligence and WMDs is relegated to the inner pages of the
tabloids.
The fact, amply documented, that the war was based on a fabricated pretext
is now regarded as a mere technical detail: a 16 words "error" which
inadvertently slipped into the President's State of the Union address.
The Mosul Shoot-out
There are a number of "holes" in the official story. According to the New
York Times (23/0703), it was a "walk-in informer" who contacted Coalition
forces. The media described this as an "unexpected tip-off".
"Neighbors saw the owner of the house, Nawaf al-Zaydan, and his son Shahlan
sitting in American vehicles. People asked him what had happened and he told
them that Uday and Qusay Hussein were inside the house. He had gone to bring
breakfast for them, he said, when the Americans arrested him." (NYT,
23/07/03)
In fact, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was in Mosul, on the very
day this "walk in informer" first contacted Coalition forces:
Mr. Secretary, Monday, you walked the streets of Mosul meeting people and it
turned out that that was just a few miles from this house where Uday and
Qusay were hiding. And after you left this informant came forward with this
information.
(...)
WOLFOWITZ: Well, actually, I think it was while we were meeting with the
town council in Mosul the first informant came forward, I believe. I may be
wrong. I'd love to be able say it was because we were there and, of course,
it had nothing to do with our being there. (Pentagon Briefing, CNN, 23 July
2003, bold italics added,
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030723-depsecdef0441.html )
Al Jazeera's correspondent in Mosul, describes the events otherwise:
"Nawwaf al-Zaydan. Al-Zaydan used to tell the neighbours that he was one of
the cousins of the former Iraqi president Saddam Husayn, while some of his
neighbours say that he is from another area and has nothing to do with the
president, but he only claimed this. At any rate, those who attended the
interrogation - since he and his son Sha'lan were arrested before entering
the house - said that the interrogation took place at gun point. At first,
he was silent, but he then collapsed and told the US soldiers that the two
sons of the Iraqi president, Uday and Qusay, and his grandson Mustafa were
inside the house, in addition to a member of security, whose name is
Abd-al-Samad. (See Al-Jazeera Report casts doubt on Official Story
concerning alleged Deaths of Umay and Qusay Al Jazeera,
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ALJ307A.html , 24 July 2003)
"Fortified Site" defended by Three Adults and a Teenager
Confirmed by the news reports, there were three adults and a teenager inside
the building: Uday, Qusay, Qusay's 14 year old teenage son, and a bodyguard
.(AFP, 23/07/03). Nobody else? no servants, no other armed men, only one
body guard.
The official communiqué confirms that there was a 4-6 hour shoot out
involving a massive mobilization of Coalition troops and military hardware.
Troops of the 101 Airborne division entered the building. Attack Helicopters
were used with 2.75 inch rockets, Humvees were used with TOW antitank
systems, mounted with M-19 and 50-caliber machine guns:
"We fired 10 missiles into the house. We believe the missile attack was
what ended up killing Uday and Qusay." ((Pentagon Briefing, CNN, 23 July
2003, italics added,
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030723-depsecdef0441.html )
The US Command claimed to have been under fire from inside the house, and,
to defend themselves, they were "compelled to call in helicopters and tanks
to shell the house." (Al-Safir, Beirut, 24 July 2003). According to an Al
Jazeera TV report, the US military "received the information the night
before and preparations had begun since the evening of 21 July and from the
early morning until nearly 2200 when the storming operation began, and which
lasted, as I heard, for four hours" (Interview with Dr Subhi Nazim Tawfiq,
strategic and military expert, Centre for International Studies, Baghdad
University, Al-Jazeera TV 23 July 2003,
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ALJ307A.html )
" I was surprised at such preparations for killing only four people seeking
refuge in an unprotected house. These preparations included armoured
vehicles, helicopters, fighter jets, medium machine guns and tanks. A siege
could have been imposed on the house using much smaller numbers and weapons
and they could have forced them to surrender without killing them. ( Ibid)
The official statement and the reports suggest that there was fierce
resistance. An entire platoon was effectively held at bay, Reinforcements
were called in
More than 200 US Airborne troops (according to the reports) equipped with
TOW missiles and Attack helicopters were pushed back two times in the course
of this six hour period. According to the reports, the building was defended
by three adult AK-47 gunmen plus a 14 year old teenager.
The operation also included the use of Special forces, the so-called "Task
Force 20". The latter also included a so-called PSYOPS team from the CIA.
(Robert Fisk, The Guardian, 23/0703).
Following its initial setback:
"coalition forces requested additional assets, to include a ground -- a
quick reaction force and heavy weaponry, given that we knew that we had a
fortified site that we were going to have to assault." (Pentagon Briefing,
CNN, 23 July 2003, italics added,
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030723-depsecdef0441.html )
The official narrative conveys the impression that the assault on the
building was being effectively repealed by more than three adults and a
teenager, in other words by a number of armed guards.
There was a second attack on the building, which was again effectively
repealed, despite the use of OH Helicopters firing rockets into the
building.
At 1122 hours the second brigade combat team began movement of additional
ground forces that included an additional antitank platoon to reinforce the
elements that were already on the ground.
At 1145, during this period the commander had decided that he wanted to
bring additional assets and we began to employ our OH-58 D helicopters with
their rocket systems -- 2.75-inch rockets -- and 50- caliber machine guns to
once again continue the prep on the target.
At 1150 hours, we had added an antitank platoon, we had a PSYOPS team on the
ground, and all were on station ready for us to continue the assault.
At 1155, the Kiowas completed their preparatory fires.
At this point the commander decided that he would make a second attempt to
get inside of the house.
At 1200 hours, we attempted to reenter the house. Once again, we received
fire from the second floor as we attempted to move -- after we had secured
the first floor -- to move up to the reinforced part of the building.
At this stage, as described in the official statement, the operation called
for more reinforcements, essentially to enable the attack to proceed from
the the first to the second floor of the building.
At this point, we knew that we had a barricaded site at the top of the
stairs and the elements -- the subjects were fairly well barricaded on that
second floor. We decided to continue the preparatory fires.
At 1300 hours, we continued the preparation using our 50-caliber machine
guns, using our M-19s, and at this point we began to employ Humvee-mounted
TOW missiles. We fired 10 TOW missiles into the house.
During this period, we considered employing our Apache helicopters and A-10s
to come in and finish the preparation and the neutralization of the target.
However, the decision was made not to employ the air power, because of the
high risk of collateral damage given the neighborhood density that we were
faced with.
At the end of this preparation, we believe that it is likely that the TOW
missile attack was what wound up killing three of the adults.
Twenty-one minutes later. at 1321 hours, we entered the building for the
third time. At this point, we received no fire as we moved up the stairs.
As we got up to the second floor, the assaulting elements continued to
receive fire and they killed the remaining individual that was in the second
floor. At this point, the enemy had been eliminated and the building was
cleared in its entirety. We completed securing the building at about 1400
hours yesterday afternoon. (Lt. Gen. Sanchez Briefing on the Confirmation
of the Deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein,
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030723-0443.html , 23 July
2003, bold added)
"Three of the adults" were killed in the second assault, according to the
official statement. And who was this lone remaining gunman defending the
bunker, against several hundred Coalition forces.? According to the news
reports, an innocent 14 year old teenager was shot down during the third
assault on the building.
They [US forces] hit back with least ten anti-tank missiles and another hail
of machine gun bullets. Apache attack helicopters and even A-10 'tankbuster'
Warthog planes were called up, with their air-to-ground missiles, rockets
and deadly chain guns.
But they were not needed. When the last anti-tank blast died away, there was
silence. 'Even the wind stilled,' said Arif. The gathering crowd had yet to
realise it, but three of the four men inside were dead. Only one - believed
to be Qusay's 14-year-old son Mustapha - was still alive. As American troops
pounded up the stairs, the teenager loosed off a final shot before he was
cut down. (Daily Mail, 24 July 2003)
Political Assassination: No Attempt to Capture
>From the outset, there was no attempt to capture the Saddam sons alive.:
"TV images of the house did not suggest that it was a formidable fortress
that could be easily defended from all sides - which would force Uday and
Qusay to surrender to the Americans after a few hours" (Al-Safir, Beirut, in
Arabic 24 July 2003, translation BBC Monitoring).
Despite the generally supportive tone of the US media, The Boston Globe,
nonetheless acknowledged that:
"the "killings of the sons looks more like a zealous political assassination
than a noble act. In 1976, President Ford issued an executive order banning
assassinations. This was after the CIA was exposed and embarrassed by
schemes to kill world leaders in developing countries. (Boston Globe,
25/07/03)
In the words of South Africa's Mail and Guardian (25/0703) the killings
constitute:
"thinly veiled extra-judicial executions, [which] are part of a growing
pattern of American lawlessness in dealings with the world since 9/11".
Why was there no attempt to capture Uday and Qusay, who could have provided
intelligence on the whereabouts of Saddam? During the official press
briefing (23/0703), the issue of "capture" and "arrest" was casually
dismissed by Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez. It would appear that the decision
to "kill" rather than "capture" was taken at the highest levels of the US
military:
QUESTION: General, I'd like to try and see if you could address more of the
first question which we had from our colleague up front. The Americans are
specialists at surrounding places, keeping people in them, holding up for a
week, if necessary, to make them surrender.
QUESTION: These guys only had, it appears, AK-47s and you had an immense
amount of firepower.
Surely, the possibility of the immense amount of information they could have
given coalition forces, not to mention the trials that they could be put on
for war crimes, held out a much greater possibility of victory for you, if
you could have surrounded that house and just sat there until they came out,
even if they were prepared to keep shooting.
SANCHEZ: Sir, that is speculation.
QUESTION: No, sir, it's an operational question. Surely, you must have
considered this much more seriously than you're suggesting.
SANCHEZ: Yes. It was considered and we chose the course of action that we
took.
QUESTION: Why, sir?
SANCHEZ: Next question, please.
(Lt. Gen. Sanchez Briefing on the Confirmation of the Deaths of Uday and
Qusay Hussein,
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030723-0443.html , 23 July
2003)
The Official Body Count
The official report confirmed that there were only four bodies:
SANCHEZ: "Once we cleared the building, we found we had four bodies that
were extracted and the bodies were evacuated and moved for positive
identification.
We removed the bodies. We brought them to Bayap (ph), where we then
proceeded to work on identification. We believe that we have positive
identification and that we, in fact, have Uday and Qusay.
The identification was done through multiple means. We had senior former
regime members do visual identification of the bodies. We had four
individuals that independently verified that we had both of Saddam Hussein's
sons.
We also compared X-rays and verified that the injuries on one of the bodies
were consistent with the injuries that had been suffered by this individual
during a previous assassination attempt.
Also, we used dental records to identify the bodies, and for Uday the match
was 90 percent and this was limited only because injuries to the teeth made
a perfect match impossible. For Qusay the dental match was a 100 percent
certainty.
Autopsies will follow, but we have no doubt that we have the bodies of Uday
and Qusay." (Lt. Gen. Sanchez Briefing on the Confirmation of the Deaths of
Uday and Qusay Hussein,
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030723-0443.html , 23 July
2003)
The press reports confirmed that the bodies were "charred", as a result of
the missile attacks: "four charred bodies were removed and two of them
positively identified as Uday and Qusay," (AFP, 23 July 2003)
Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez stated that they were able to identify the
bodies of Uday and Qusay, but not those of the other two, which included the
teenager. Why this discrepancy?
If indeed the teenage son of Qusay was the last to die in a shoot-out, as
suggested by the news reports, one would expect that his body would be
easier to identify than those of the other three men, whose bodies had been
"charred" as a result of the missile attack.
The official report is unequivocal with regard to the identity of the bodies
of Uday and Qusay, while expressing doubts on that of the teenager:
QUESTION: Sir, just on the identification. I mean, were the bodies in such a
condition that it wasn't just apparent from looking at their faces who they
were?
SANCHEZ: The bodies are in a condition where you could identify them.
SANCHEZ: Any other questions?
QUESTION: Sir, there were reports that there was a teenager among the four
who were killed. Any information on who that might have been?
SANCHEZ: We are continuing to work on the other two bodies at this point to
get the final confirmation on who they are.
OK, this was easy.
(Lt. Gen. Sanchez Briefing on the Confirmation of the Deaths of Uday and
Qusay Hussein,
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030723-0443.html , 23 July
2003)
Cold-blooded Murder of a 14 Year-old
Were there other people inside the building? The official statement does
not say.
The official story on the shoot-out, does not seem to tally with the body
count. If there had only been three adult gunmen, the building could have
been taken in a single assault without the use of rockets and TOW missiles.
In the third assault at the end of this four hour period, the official story
suggests that there was one lone gunman defending the building against an
entire platoon equipped with missiles and helicopters, etc.
The news reports confirm that: "Mustapha, was the last to die." (the 14 year
old teenager).
What is clear from the official statement, is that the killing of the
teenager by US forces was a gratuitous criminal act.
Was the teenager given the opportunity to surrender or was he simply shot by
US forces? The official statement confirms that, upon entering the building
for the third time, there was no resistance: "we received no fire as we
moved up the stairs. As we got up to the second floor, the assaulting
elements continued to receive fire [from 14 year old Mustapha] and they
killed the remaining individual that was in the second floor."
According to the official statement, there were no prisoners apart from the
owner of the house and his son; no witnesses or wounded from inside the
building...
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Annex 1
Release of the Photos
The photos of the bodies of Uday and Qusay were released (24/07/03).
What is striking in these pictures is that they do not correspond to the
description provided in the official account and press reports, which state
that the bodies were "charred" as a result of the missile and rocket
attacks. No photographic evidence was provided regarding the other two
bodies, including that of the teenager.
According to the Al Jazeera Correspondent in Mosul:
"Those who saw the bodies could not recognize them. However, one of the
bodies belonged to a bearded man. But the features of the bodies were not
recognizable. The interesting thing is that the house is still under siege
and no one is allowed to enter it. US intelligence agents stayed in the
house for almost five hours and took samples from various parts of the
house. They also confiscated videotapes and documents. They took samples
from the cars that were parked near the house. There was a car inside the
house as well, which indicates that there was perhaps a secret garage for
the house to which cars could be driven. I saw a car parked inside the
house." ( http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ALJ307A.html )
When 15 "accredited" journalists were allowed to see the bodies in a tent
at Baghdad airport (25/07/03), US military officials acknowledged that the
bodies had "undergone facial reconstruction with morticians putty to make
them resemble as closely as possible the faces of the brothers when they
were alive," (Reuters, 25 July 2003). (To see photos after facial
reconstruction click here)
There was no confirmation as to whether the bodies had undergone preliminary
facial reconstruction before the photos were taken.
The bodies were shown with numerous bullet wounds: "five photographs
showing the bloodied and bruised corpses..."
The official report of the attack states that the "three adults" died as a
result of the missile attack, i.e. not from bullet wounds:
"we believe that it is likely that the TOW missile attack was what wound
up killing three of the adults." (See News Briefing, op cit)
Bear in mind: this statement, repeated twice during the News Brief, was made
after the positive identification of the bodies by the US military. In other
words, Lt. Gen. Sanchez is confirming that the three adults, based on the
post-mortem, died from the missile attack and not from bullet wounds.
Yet his statement on the cause of death, which was made prior to the release
of the photos, contradicts the photographic evidence presented on the 25th
of July.
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Annex 2
Transcript of Official Statement and News Briefing
Source: Federal Documents Clearing House (FDCH), 23 July 2003.
Also available at
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030723-0443.html ,
LIEUTENANT GENERAL RICARDO SANCHEZ (USA) HOLDS DEFENSE DEPARTMENT NEWS
BRIEFING ON DEATHS OF UDAY AND QUSAY HUSSEIN
SPEAKER: LIEUTENANT GENERAL RICARDO SANCHEZ (USA), COMMANDER, COALITION
JOINT TASK FORCE
JULY 22, 2003
SANCHEZ: Good afternoon. Now this is a full house today. Glad to see you all
here. I've got some important messages to relay to all of you, to all of our
coalition partners and, most importantly, to the Iraqi people.
Yesterday was a landmark day for the people and for the future of Iraq.
Every single day we get closer to the secure and stable environment that
will allow this country to flourish and assume its rightful place in the
region and in the community of nations.
(....)
We continue to aggressively go after former regime loyalists, and in the
past 48 hours my forces have conducted over 4,300 patrols and 48 raids.
SANCHEZ: Now I will turn to one of those raids that we executed yesterday
that led to the death of high-value targets number two and three, Uday and
Qusay Hussein.
First of all, to orient you to the map, at the center of the map is Baghdad
on the left-hand side. Up in the north is Mosul. This is the town where we
conducted the operation. The operation, specifically, was on the
northeastern part of the city. And what you see on the lower right of that
chart is the neighborhood with the red square around the house that was
assaulted. As you can see from the bottom right-hand side, this is a
neighborhood that constrained us to some extent in the application of combat
power.
The major forces that were involved were elements of the 101st Airborne
Division. We had an infantry company. We deployed OH-58 D Kiowa attack
helicopters that come equipped with 2.75-inch rockets and machine guns. We
had Humvees with TOW antitank systems, Humvees that were mounted with M-19
and 50-caliber machine guns. We also our AH-64 Apache helicopters on
station, however we did not use this capability. And also, we had the Air
Force on station with A-10s ready to be employed should the need arise.
Also, establishing the outer cordon, as you can see on the bottom of that
slide, was the Iraqi police. They were also participating in coordination
with our forces on the ground to complete the cordon.
What you see here is an outline of the house that we assaulted. You see it's
a three-story home. And the actual target area was on the second floor which
was a fortified part of the house.
Here once again are the forces that were involved in the operation.
The first phase of the operation was what we called setting the conditions
for us to conduct the assault. The previous night, on the 21st, we had had
an Iraqi citizen walk in and give us information that Uday and Qusay might
be located at this residence.
Over the course of the night, we planned our operation and we had all the
conditions set in order for us to initiate our assault by 1000 hours
yesterday morning.
The 101st Airborne Division had antitank platoons and weapon squads in
place, they had established their cordon to ensure that we had isolated the
area, and we commenced the operation with an interpreter using a bull horn
in order to attempt to urge the targets -- which we were confident were in
there; we knew some folks were in there -- in what we call a
cordon-and-knock operation.
What we have gone to is this cordon-and-knock versus cordon-and- search.
What we do is we will cordon an area, go up to the door, knock on the door
and ask to see if personnel that we are after are located in that specific
house.
SANCHEZ: In this case, we used the bull horn and we did not get a response.
And 10 minutes later, at 1010 hours, we began to enter the building.
Immediately upon entering the building, shots were fired. We immediately
determined that the targeted individuals were barricaded in the fortified
portion of the building, which was the second floor, and they started
engaging with small arms. We believed they were AK-47s.
On the initial exchange of gunfire, we had three coalition soldiers wounded
on the stairs as we attempted to get up to the second floor, and we had one
coalition soldier that was wounded outside the building. At this point, our
forces withdrew. The coalition forces requested additional assets, to
include a ground -- a quick reaction force and heavy weaponry, given that we
knew that we had a fortified site that we were going to have to assault.
Within five minutes, we called in medevac to take care of our wounded
soldiers and we determined at that point -- the leaders on the ground that
it was appropriate for us to prep the objective prior to reentry.
For the next couple of hours, while we lined up the right resources on the
ground, we were taking this at a fairly measured pace. We knew that we had
the area surrounded, and there was no rush -- or no reason for us to rush to
failure.
We received sporadic gunfire for a while, and at 1045 hours we began the
prep, with significant M-19 grenade launchers. We fired a couple of AT-4
rockets at the house, and also used Humvee-mounted 50- caliber machine gun
fire to attempt to neutralize the threat.
At 1122 hours the second brigade combat team began movement of additional
ground forces that included an additional antitank platoon to reinforce the
elements that were already on the ground.
At 1145, during this period the commander had decided that he wanted to
bring additional assets and we began to employ our OH-58 D helicopters with
their rocket systems -- 2.75-inch rockets -- and 50- caliber machine guns to
once again continue the prep on the target.
At 1150 hours, we had added an antitank platoon, we had a PSYOPS team on the
ground, and all were on station ready for us to continue the assault.
At 1155, the Kiowas completed their preparatory fires.
At this point the commander decided that he would make a second attempt to
get inside of the house.
At 1200 hours, we attempted to reenter the house. Once again, we received
fire from the second floor as we attempted to move -- after we had secured
the first floor -- to move up to the reinforced part of the building.
SANCHEZ: Once again, we opted to withdraw.
At this point, we knew that we had a barricaded site at the top of the
stairs and the elements -- the subjects were fairly well barricaded on that
second floor. We decided to continue the preparatory fires.
At 1300 hours, we continued the preparation using our 50-caliber machine
guns, using our M-19s, and at this point we began to employ Humvee-mounted
TOW missiles. We fired 10 TOW missiles into the house.
During this period, we considered employing our Apache helicopters and A-10s
to come in and finish the preparation and the neutralization of the target.
However, the decision was made not to employ the air power, because of the
high risk of collateral damage given the neighborhood density that we were
faced with.
At the end of this preparation, we believe that it is likely that the TOW
missile attack was what wound up killing three of the adults.
Twenty-one minutes later. at 1321 hours, we entered the building for the
third time. At this point, we received no fire as we moved up the stairs.
As we got up to the second floor, the assaulting elements continued to
receive fire and they killed the remaining individual that was in the second
floor. At this point, the enemy had been eliminated and the building was
cleared in its entirety. We completed securing the building at about 1400
hours yesterday afternoon.
Once we cleared the building, we found we had four bodies that were
extracted and the bodies were evacuated and moved for positive
identification.
Immediately after this, the 101st Airborne moved task force neighborhood
elements, engineer elements into the area along with civil affairs assets in
order to be able to clean up and begin the repair of the area in that
community.
At this point we continue to secure and exploit and assess the site.
Here on the right you see a picture of the Airborne soldiers firing their
TOW missiles at the building. And this shows you some of the destructive
capability of those missiles and the end state of the building once we
completed securing of the site.
We removed the bodies. We brought them to Bayap (ph), where we then
proceeded to work on identification. We believe that we have positive
identification and that we, in fact, have Uday and Qusay.
The identification was done through multiple means. We had senior former
regime members do visual identification of the bodies. We had four
individuals that independently verified that we had both of Saddam Hussein's
sons.
We also compared X-rays and verified that the injuries on one of the bodies
were consistent with the injuries that had been suffered by this individual
during a previous assassination attempt.
Also, we used dental records to identify the bodies, and for Uday the match
was 90 percent and this was limited only because injuries to the teeth made
a perfect match impossible. For Qusay the dental match was a 100 percent
certainty.
Autopsies will follow, but we have no doubt that we have the bodies of Uday
and Qusay.
SANCHEZ: In closing, I must reiterate that the war continues. We remain
focused on the objective that America and the coalition has put before us:
that is defeat terrorism, defeat the Saddam Hussein regime, ensure that they
never come back into power and ensure the freedom of the Iraqi people. We
will not falter and we will not fail.
And oh, by the way, this morning we picked up number 11.
I'll now take your questions.
QUESTION: I would like to ask you, don't you regret the fact that you
couldn't get Uday and Qusay alive? It would have been probably a source of a
lot of information got from them both.
Also, wasn't it a failure in a way because you didn't use commandos to come
and surprise them both? You conducted [the] operation in the very
traditional way.
How would you describe it? All these attacks preparation was only to
surround five probably or four people who are armed with large weapons.
And also what about the child of Qusay?
SANCHEZ: First of all, we have confirmation that we've got Uday and Qusay
Hussein, and we've got two other bodies that we're continuing the
identification process on them.
On whether this was a failure, absolutely not. I would never consider this a
failure. Our mission is to find, kill or capture. In this case, we had an
enemy that was defending, that was barricaded and we had to take the
measures that were necessary in order to neutralize the target.
When you look at the possibilities of what you may have gained or what you
may have lost, that would sheer speculation on my part at this point.
QUESTION: Congratulation for your attack, and may God always help you in
this hearty work. More thanks for you.
My first question is about the owner of this home: Who does it belong to?
And do you take an idea to discussion by yourself or the responsible the
attack to take discussion with Uday and Qusay before the attack to get
themselves out or really you are going to it, the attack, and it's what we
needed all of Iraq? Thank you.
SANCHEZ: OK, sir, as I understand it, you have two questions. The owner of
the home; at this point, the 101st is on the ground with follow-up
operations in order to take care of the problem that resulted from the
conduct of the operation and the destruction that we had to execute in
getting to a successful conclusion.
In terms of the discussions, as I stated, we did make an attempt with
interpreter and with bullhorns to try to attempt to get a surrender from the
personnel that were in the house. And what we got back was return fire. And
therefore we had to execute in the fashion that we did.
QUESTION: General, I'd like to try and see if you could address more of the
first question which we had from our colleague up front. The Americans are
specialists at surrounding places, keeping people in them, holding up for a
week, if necessary, to make them surrender.
QUESTION: These guys only had, it appears, AK-47s and you had an immense
amount of firepower.
Surely, the possibility of the immense amount of information they could have
given coalition forces, not to mention the trials that they could be put on
for war crimes, held out a much greater possibility of victory for you, if
you could have surrounded that house and just sat there until they came out,
even if they were prepared to keep shooting.
SANCHEZ: Sir, that is speculation.
QUESTION: No, sir, it's an operational question. Surely, you must have
considered this much more seriously than you're suggesting.
SANCHEZ: Yes. It was considered and we chose the course of action that we
took.
QUESTION: Why, sir?
SANCHEZ: Next question, please.
QUESTION: How are you going to convince the Iraqi people that you've, in
fact, killed Uday and Qusay? We still haven't seen the bodies yet.
SANCHEZ: In due time, we will provide that to you.
As I stated, we had former regime members that positively identified the
bodies. Those are members that are in the custody of the United States at
this point and they had access to the bodies and all of them verified that
we had the two sons. And also, as I stated, we used medical records and
dental records to corroborate what we've got.
QUESTION: I meant how are you going to convince the Iraqis though? Are you
going to show the Iraqis in the newspapers or on the radio or on local
television anything that would prove to them...
SANCHEZ: That is our next step. And that is working within the Department of
Defense, and we will provide follow-on information over the course of the
coming days as we complete the autopsies and we complete the site
exploitation.
QUESTION: With all these former regime members on the deck of cards that
you've now detained, when are you going to show for the average Iraqi person
that you actually have them and, you know, bring them out in shackles, have
a video camera in the detention center where you have them; something that
will show the average Iraqi that has these strange doubts about whether you
really are detaining these people that, in fact, you have?
SANCHEZ: We've got that under discussion at this point in time with
decisions to be made on the way ahead with the detainees that we have. No
policy decision has been made at this point.
QUESTION: (SPEAKING IN ARABIC)
SANCHEZ: As far as personal effects, as I stated, site exploitation is
ongoing right now. But we will continue the site exploitation in order to
gather what else may be available in the site.
QUESTION: (SPEAKING IN ARABIC)
SANCHEZ: Sir, at this point, we have positive identification of the two sons
of Saddam Hussein and we continue to work on getting conclusive
identification on the other two.
QUESTION: General, can you provide any details about the role of special
forces in both the gathering intelligence for this operation and in taking
part in the actual operation itself?
SANCHEZ: Sir, what I can tell you is this was a joint operation that we
conducted by elements of the coalition. The intelligence that we gathered
was from a walk-in source. That's what led us to the site.
QUESTION: (SPEAKING IN ARABIC)
SANCHEZ: Sir, that is exactly what we hope for.
SANCHEZ: The death of Uday and Qusay, I believe, is definitely going to be a
turning point for the resistance and the subversive elements that we are
encountering. But our mission is not complete.
We still have other elements and individuals on the high-value target list
that we continue to focus on, the mid-level leadership that is still out
there conducting operations against our forces, and we will not relent. We
will continue to focus until we've accomplished our mission.
QUESTION: In the streets, the people still want to have a positive approval,
not just word that you captured Uday and Qusay.
But the bigger question is: What about the money Qusay looted from the
central banks? How are you going to follow up on all the money they took out
before the fall of Baghdad?
SANCHEZ: I'm sorry, sir, you're going to have to restate the question,
because I thought you were speaking in Arabic and that's what was getting
out of here.
(LAUGHTER)
So you'll have to excuse me.
QUESTION: OK.
Again, the people in the street still want to have a positive approval that
Uday and Qusay have been really killed and that -- one person told me they
are like cats with seven lives, so that's -- the doubt will -- it's still in
the streets.
My second question is: What about Qusay looted the central bank and the
money he took away with him? What is your strategy to recapture and retake
all the money they had?
SANCHEZ: Sir, first of all, on the cat with nine lives, we are certain that
we have Qusay and Uday.
We will continue with the exploitation of the site. We will continue with
the autopsies on the bodies to get final conclusive evidence.
I will await further guidance on the next step to take on how we're going to
prove to the Iraqi people that we, in fact, have these two men.
In terms of the money, at this point there are elements that are focused on
ensuring that all the money that was looted by the Saddam Hussein regime is
brought back to the people of Iraq.
QUESTION: I want to ask you -- my English is not good, but do you know the
problem is not Uday and Qusay. Now the problem is Saddam Hussein.
SANCHEZ: Yes, ma'am, absolutely agree with you that the ultimate objective
is Saddam Hussein and as I've stated before, we maintain the focus on all of
the high-value targets and we will not fail.
QUESTION: I understand that there is still some cordon around Mosul today or
parts of it, and that you're looking for additional high-value targets
there. Does that include Saddam, or is that this number 11 that you
mentioned early on?
the site that we had to assault to pick up number 2 and number 3. That is
still continuing, because we're not complete with that site yet.
QUESTION: And number 11 was in Mosul?
SANCHEZ: I can't answer that question at this point.
QUESTION: I wanted to find out, first of all, if you had any thoughts about
the Saddam tape that is out today that apparently was made about three days
ago?
And secondly, earlier you said that the option to surround the house and
wait out the individuals in the house was considered and rejected. Could you
explain to us why?
SANCHEZ: The tape -- I can't answer the question on the tape, because I
haven't heard or seen the tape at this point.
And the commanders on the ground made the decisions to go ahead and execute
and accomplish our mission of finding, killing or capturing. That was a
decision the commander on the ground made, and that was the right decision.
QUESTION: What will happen to the bodies that you've recovered after they've
been subjected to an autopsy? Where will they be buried?
SANCHEZ: Yes, that's a decision that is yet to be made on final disposition
of the remains.
QUESTION: I want to get back to that point of proving to Iraqis. All the
Iraqis that I've spoken to today have said they won't accept anything less
than pictures proving that Uday and Qusay are dead. However, during the war
the U.S. was quite strong on opposing photos or images of dead soldiers
being shown on TV.
So do you find yourself in a quandary about how to prove to Iraqis that the
two men are dead? And do you rule out using pictures, or are you still
considering that?
SANCHEZ: We have not ruled out any options at this point, ma'am. And I don't
find myself in any quandary; I'm a soldier.
QUESTION: General, can you describe, discuss the role that Abid Hamid
Mahmud, number 4 on the most wanted list, played in identifying these bodies
or giving information to coalition forces on the whereabouts of these men?
SANCHEZ: I can confirm that he was one of the individuals that independently
identified the bodies.
QUESTION: I just wanted to know did you find any clues or hints or any other
elements which show that Saddam Hussein was in that house?
SANCHEZ: At this point we continue to exploit the site, sir, and what we
found there is not something that I could reveal.
QUESTION: Who exactly was the commander on the ground?
And how does it come that a question of such wide implication to get
probably former leaders for trial is left to a small commander on the
ground?
SANCHEZ: Sir, the commander on the ground made a decision based on the
conditions that he was facing, and I am in no position to question his
decisions. He made the right decisions to accomplish the mission that had
been assigned to him and, as I've stated on multiple occasions now, that was
to kill or capture.
QUESTION: How has this attack brought the coalition closer to detaining,
capturing Saddam Hussein?
SANCHEZ: How has it brought us closer? I'm not sure I can measure and give
you a measure there, but I will tell you that our focus is unequivocal.
We know what our targets are. As I mentioned in my previous press
conferences before, that we remain focused on accomplishing those tasks. And
I'll tell you one more time that we will not fail.
The Saddam Hussein will never come back into power. The coalition has made
that statement over and over again that we will ensure the freedom of the
Iraqi people; that is our purpose and that what will in the end be
accomplished.
QUESTION: (SPEAKING IN ARABIC)
SANCHEZ: There were a lot of civilians on the ground, but no one was hurt.
We know of no collateral damage that occurred as a result of the operation.
As I stated, we made decisions on the ground that prevented the employment
of combat power that would create collateral damage. So there was no
collateral damage that we're aware of at this point.
And I'm sorry, I'm going to have to cut it at this point because I have a
couple of other commitments with some other elements of the press.
OK, thank you all very much. We will in due time here in the coming days
provide you with additional information on this raid. Thank you all very
much. Have a great day.
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If the latest story about the adventurous American 101st
Airborne Division was true, Saddam Hussein's two sons, his grandson and
their solitary bodyguard, would have to go down in history as some of the
world’s greatest and bravest fighters. According to the media these four
heroic individuals, including one cripple and one child, managed to fight
off 200 heavily armed and highly aggressive members of the 101st Airborne
for six long hours, before finally perishing in a hail of Hellfire missiles
launched by helicopter gunships.
The only way four lonely defenders could stay alive more than
five minutes under these circumstances, would be if they were inside a
heavily reinforced underground bunker, protected James Bond-style by
automatic or remote controlled heavy weapons. But no, the gang of four were
allegedly quietly sipping mint tea in the kitchen of a completely vulnerable
Mosul villa, which had earlier been used by members of the 101st Airborne as
requisitioned accommodation.
Time to leave the Washington world of media spin for a moment
here, and briefly touch base with reality. Uday and Qusay do not get along
at the best of times, and in any event, for security reasons travel
independently with separate highly-trained teams of special forces
bodyguards front and rear.
Uday and Qusay always have “back doors” through which to exit
from any given location or locations, and would be insane to even consider
hiding in a house in Mosul, a northern Iraqi city surrounded on all sides by
murderous Kurdish terrorists, each and every one of whom would murder either
or both brothers for ten cents. Both brothers are flamboyant and perhaps
even eccentric, but neither is insane. Now let us discard reality
completely, and catch up with the latest absurd White House propaganda.
"Individuals of very high interest to the coalition forces were
hiding out in the building," Lieutenant Colonel William Bishop of the 101st
Airborne Division told Reuters, which of course begs the question of why
these “Individuals of very high interest” were not simply surrounded, and
then slowly starved out of the photogenic villa in a blaze of media
publicity. Nor am I alone in wondering about this obvious beneficial
alternative course of action.
Fox News military analyst Colonel Bill Cowan said he hoped
Saddam's sons had been captured and not killed. "I think in this case, it'd
be great to have them alive," he said. "I think for the [Iraqi] population
to see these two guys. shackled, incarcerated and really given harsh
treatment, will have a most profound and long-term psychological advantage."
Alas, this was not to be, because the 200 members of the brave
101st apparently found the two men, one cripple and one boy in the
photogenic villa much too much hard to handle. An anonymous soldier
“involved” in the operation allegedly told Steve Centanni of Fox News that
containment was not an option. "We received direct fire from the building
multiple times. We used a scaled escalation of force, and had to use bigger
caliber weapons to render the building safe" The 101st Airborne allegedly
used all the weapons in its arsenal, including grenade launchers, missiles
and helicopters.
It was around this point in time that the four dead “Individuals
of very high interest” were converted into “three Husseins and a single
bodyguard”, primarily because a US official told Fox News "they were shot up
so much that it is difficult to make a positive identification of the
bodies”. Decoded, this of course meant that the White House could go ahead
with its master propaganda ploy to demoralize the Iraqi people, by claiming
Saddam’s two sons were dead.
Certainly it was time to kill someone other than poor old
Saddam, who has allegedly been killed so often by American forces that
nowadays no-one, including American servicemen, believes this pathetic
rubbish. So the staged deaths of “hated” Uday and Qusay Hussein were a new
version of the old Saddam theme, designed not only to demoralize the Iraqi
people, but also to bolster American military morale, which recently reached
non-existent level in Iraq.
In their rush to “verify” the new propaganda and make it stick,
American officials have unwittingly uncovered a more profound level of
Administration untruth, going to the very heart of how many “wanted” Iraqis
on the famous “Deck of Cards” have actually been captured, or are still at
large. In what may yet prove to be a terminal error of judgement, a White
House official told CNN yesterday that the bodies of Uday and Qusay had
been visually “positively identified” by none other than Lieutenant General
Abid Hamid Mahmud al Tikriti, Saddam’s closest aide, and the Ace of Diamonds
in the pack. You may remember that the American Administration claimed to
have captured Lieutenant General al Tikriti on June 17, 2003, but for
reasons that will soon become obvious, failed to parade him shackled and
shamed in front of the world media, just as Colonel Bill Cowan of Fox News
wanted to do with Uday and Qusay Hussein.
Saeed al-Sahaf
Tariq Aziz
Think about this people, think about it very hard. The only thing
preventing the Administration from gleefully parading Lieutenant General
Abid Hamid Mahmud al Tikriti in front of the media cameras, is the fact they
never captured him at all. Now go search the archives, and try to find media
video footage taken after the "arrest" of any of the other 34 “wanted
criminals” on the Deck of Cards that America claims to have in custody. No
media footage? What a surprise…
There are exceptions to this rule of course, most notably in the
cases of Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, and Minister of Information
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, but neither was a member of the inner council.
Tariq Aziz is the only Christian Minister in Iraq, and was arrested by
American troops on camera, dispelling any myth that the American
Administration might wish to avoid causing “embarrassment” to senior ranking
Iraqi officials. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was a former school teacher, also
arrested on camera and then allowed to return home.
The compulsion of Washington and New York psychotics to “parade
and shame” their prisoners for all the world to see, is very well
documented, always provided they really have the prisoners in custody.
Anyone remember “war criminal” Slobodan Milosevic? The media was fed
thousands of feet of video footage showing Slobodan being snatched from his
house, bundled into his car, then hustled into a helicopter before being
transferred to a plane for the Hague.
Then more riveting media footage of Slobodan Milosevic stooped forward in
his American handcuffs, while unhinged viewers in the White House and
Department of State dribbled spittle down their shirt fronts in a parody of
sexual excitement.
Independent journalist Robert Fisk recently highlighted this
disgusting “show and tell” compulsion on the street of Baghdad, when the car
carrying Danish engineer Qais al-Salman came under American fire. Qais was
carrying his Danish Passport, Danish driving license and medical records,
but they did him no good at all. In Qais al-Salman’s own words:
"A civilian car came up with American soldiers in it. Then more
soldiers in military vehicles. I told them I didn't understand what had
happened, that I was a scientific researcher. But they made me lie down in
the street, tied my arms behind me with plastic-and-steel cuffs and tied up
my feet and put me in one of their vehicles.
"After 10 minutes in the vehicle, I was taken out again. There
were journalists with cameras. The group of Americans untied me, then made
me lie on the road again. Then, in front of the cameras, they tied my hands
and feet all over again and put me back in the vehicle." It was “show and
tell” time for the American media, despite the fact that Qais al-Salman was
in Iraq specifically to help repair Baghdad’s bomb-damaged water
purification plants.
This is what the Americans do to a single Danish civil engineer
they just happen to shoot up on the streets of Baghdad. Now imagine the
magnified reaction if they had really captured Lieutenant General al
Tikriti. For a star of this magnitude, Hollywood would unquestionably be
called in, glittering silver-plated shackles would festoon the hapless
General from head to toe, and in all probability Steven Spielberg would
suddenly appear in a flak jacket to direct the action.
If there is anyone out there who still believes that the
American Administration has actually captured 34 “wanted criminals”
including Lieutenant General Abid Hamid Mahmud al Tikriti, and also killed
Uday and Qusay Hussein, then I have failed in my job. Of course, the White
House is promising to show you some “selected” photographs of the dead Uday
and Qusay in a week or two, presumably when experts have finally finished
manufacturing the forged pictures on Adobe or Paint Shop Pro in Washington.
The harsh reality is that nearly all of the human Iraqi command,
control, communications and intelligence structure is still intact, and
currently directing extremely professional counter-insurgency operations
against American and British invasion forces. Most “coalition of the
willing” soldiers in Iraq are painfully aware of this fact, and no amount
of pathetic propaganda peddled by the White House is going to dull their
sharp awareness.
Put bluntly, coalition soldiers in Iraq, especially Americans,
have apparently already reached the critical point where direct action
against their own commanders is starting to seem more attractive than simply
allowing themselves to be blown apart in a politically-contrived “war”,
against a country which has never presented a clear and present danger to
America.
It is a well known fact that members of the 3rd Infantry
Division have now been told three times already, that they cannot return to
their wives and families in America, which is producing anger of an
extremely dangerous though understandable kind. What is less well known is
the low level but persistent rumor that certain members of this division are
threatening to “take out” [kill] Paul Bremer and Adnan Chalabi, who they
apparently perceive as traitors sacrificing American military lives for
Israeli and American multinational interests.
Certainly with their own firepower, plus countless captured
Iraqi weapons and continual access to the designated targets, this objective
could be achieved with ease, and be made to look like an Iraqi attack.
Whether or not it will actually proceed is anyone’s guess, especially as
Iraqi counter-insurgency forces almost certainly have the same targets on
their own list. About the only certainty is that if Bremer and Chalabi hang
around for much longer, they will be killed one way or the other, and their
deaths will automatically be blamed on the Iraqis.
Turning the prestigious 101st Airborne into propaganda puppets at
Mosul, is a new move that might prove extremely hazardous for the American
political establishment. While almost anyone in the 101st will proudly tell
you “We kick ass”, they will not tolerate being taken for fools by anyone,
nor will they blatantly lie on political command. especially when their
members are being killed in some irrelevant part of the Iraqi western
desert, as happened last week.
In the long term it is prestigious units like the 101st that
present by far the greatest danger to corrupt politicians in Washington, DC.
Push these folks too far, and there is a remote possibility that one of
their Apache gunships might wander off course over the national Capital, and
accidentally flick a couple of live Hellfire missiles through the windows of
the Oval Office.
Update 25 July 2003
Uday & Qusay Hussein Forged Photos – Forensic Analysis
When forensic pathologists or morticians are asked to identify a
mutilated cadaver by comparing it with a photograph of the alleged victim,
the first thing they do is to lay out the cadaver so that its profile
matches that of the photograph. For example, if the photo is right profile,
the cadaver will be arranged and photographed in exactly the same position,
i.e. also right profile, and at exactly the same angle. This may require
considerable manipulation, but pathologists and morticians are highly
skilled in this art, and the poor man on the slab is long past caring about
the inconvenience.
No self-respecting pathologist or mortician would ever dare
present a coroner’s court with the sort of forensic rubbish shown in the
photos above, which were “released” by Secretary Rumsfeld earlier today as
“proof” that Uday Hussein was killed during a gun battle in Mosul. I’m
really curious about your odd behavior, Mr Rumsfeld, so please explain
exactly why the pathologists failed to take the basic step of matching the
cadaver profile to that in the photograph, and then tell us all exactly why
the mortuary technicians were ordered not to shave off this man’s beard. No
answer, Mr Secretary? What a surprise!
Obviously shaving off his beard would have revealed a jaw line
quite unlike that of the real Uday Hussein, and that simply could not be
allowed during a major propaganda exercise designed to undermine Iraqi
counter-insurgency efforts, while at the same time bolstering non- existent
morale among American troops based in Iraq. In an attempt to make things a
little easier for puzzled readers trying to work out what the hell is going
on,, I have substituted pictures and switched profiles in the composite
photo shown below:
It would have been easy for me to find a more suitable photo of
Uday if I had access to the more than 2,000 such images archived at the
Central Intelligence Agency, but sadly we will have to make do with the one
shown above left. Look carefully at the real Uday Hussein’s fine nose,
ladies and gentlemen, and then compare it as best you can with the nose on
the cadaver. As you can see, the two noses do not match, not even
approximately. Now draw an imaginary [or real] horizontal line from the top
of Uday’s left ear around to the front of his face. Mark this reference
point with a red felt-tip pen. Now do the same with the cadaver and you will
find there is a variation of 2.5 millimeters. Aha! The two ears belong on
two entirely different heads.
The main reason for selecting this particular photo of Uday is
that the photographer has caught very fine detail on his face, in particular
where he shaves, i.e. the gray shadow area on his right cheek showing where
his beard would grow, as opposed to the pink area where no beard hair ever
grows at all. Note carefully the exact route of the line between the shadow
and the pink skin. These lines are different on every man, and in their own
way as distinctive as fingerprints. Sadly perhaps, we have another mismatch
with the cadaver, but is anyone out there really surprised by this?
One critically important point with Uday revolves around the
fact that you are only allowed to see the uppermost portion of the cadaver
torso, which has not been arranged to protect the sensitivities of sickly
viewers. The real Uday has some very significant scars from the attempt on
his life, which are not present on the lower torso of the cadaver - the
ultimate whistle-blower for every doctor and nurse who ever tended to him.
Oops!
Moving on to Qusay Hussein, we find the same fundamental “error”
of the pathologists and morticians in failing to match the profile of the
cadaver with his photograph, and once again the mortuary technicians were
ordered not to shave off his beard. Details of the ear are wrong and
[seriously] mismatched between photograph and cadaver. The real Qusay has an
upward kink in both eyebrows, which is completely missing from the cadaver,
as is the deep fleshy outcrop on Qusay’s forehead. Do we need any more?
Probably not, but there is a lot of fine detail left for the sleuths who
want to make a real forensic meal out of it.
One thing that stands out very clearly from the photographs of
the two cadavers, is that these two unknown men did not die in a hail of
gunfire and Hellfire missiles inside a Mosul villa. The massive bruising
around and behind the eyes of both men proves that both were beaten severely
[tortured] while still alive, most probably by members of Adnan Chalabi’s
21st Century equivalent of the barbaric Iranian Savak. In the large photo
below, it can be clearly seen that the severe bruising is only to the face,
and possibly to the genitals and feet as is customary for torturers
worldwide. We can only speculate on the latter, because Secretary Rumsfeld
dare not release full body photographs. In any event, death must have come
as an enormous relief for both.
The red circles on the photo highlight what appear to be bullet
holes or perhaps puncture wounds from sharp instruments – it is difficult to
tell which. What is relevant of course is that there is no bruising at all
around these sites, indicating [though not proving] that someone unknown
fired a bullet or two into the cadaver after death, simply for media effect.
This was probably essential, bearing in mind the media “spin” that these two
bodies were recovered from a Mosul villa which had allegedly sustained more
than 1,000 small arms hits, plus twenty utterly lethal Hellfire missiles
fired from helicopter gunships.
In the end, all the lies and deception generated by Rumsfeld and
his cronies will not be enough to remove the words of a senior 101st
Airborne officer, who said on the day that the bodies in the Mosul villa
were “battered completely beyond recognition by the sustained assault.” No
doubt that officer was correct, and because Rumsfeld’s two cadavers have
most certainly not been “battered beyond recognition”, we have proof they
were not in the Mosul villa at all. Simply shave off their beards, and the
two men’s real relatives should be able to recognize them quite easily, and
recover their bodies for decent burial.
How Americans in general are managing to cope with the frankly
psychotic behavior of the retards in the White House at a time like this, I
simply cannot imagine. Australian politicians are bad enough, but are
simply not in the same demonic league as Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Hopefully, sooner rather than later, someone will do something about
removing them all from office permanently.
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