CNBC on TV, anyone else hear about Saddam and sons killed?

[RaySharpton]

CNBC on TV, anyone else hear about Saddam and sons killed?

She has mentioned it twice, but not on CNN, yet

04/07/2003 at ~8:35 P.M. EDT

 

[bsnyder]

It's on all of them now, but MSNBC seems to have the most in-depth sources about this.

 

[helenabear]

I hadn't heard anything until just now (DH has wrestling on ) I'll have to go check out a website or two.

 

[RaySharpton]

FOXNEWS.com at 9:55 P.M. EDT

Launches Strike Against Iraqi Leadership Compound
Monday, April 07, 2003

WASHINGTON_—_The United States struck a "leadership target" in Baghdad Monday, military officials said.
The target was believed to be one or more of the top government or military leaders in Saddam Hussein's regime, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The strike was the result of "time sensitive" intelligence, meaning information which needed to be acted on quickly, the officials said.
The military officials said they did not know the identity of the target of the strike, or whether the target or targets had been killed.
Coalition strikes have aimed at top Iraqi leaders since the beginning of the war.
On March 19, President Bush authorized a strike on a suburban Baghdad compound where Saddam Hussein and his sons were believed to be staying. That strike, like Monday's attack, was based on time-sensitive intelligence.

 

[helenabear]

Thanks so much for the article Ray!

Oh and good to see you posting... even if it is over here discussing not so happy events.

 

[Geoff_M]

We had multiple sources that Saddam and his leadership were meeting in the house that was hit. FoxNews reported that one of the "smoking guns" was a specialized frequency hopping scambled phone system ("Jaguar") that the British sold Saddam during the Iran/Iraq war. It was only used by Saddam and his sons. But the British gave us the equipment to crack the system. FoxNews reports that there were special ops in the area before the bombing and they were even able to eavesdrop on the meeting and they were discussing escape routes to get out of Baghdad. They also knew that they were meeting in a room above ground and were not in the bunker below the structure. They also reported that the military had three or four "close calls" in the past two weeks where they had good information about Saddams' whereabouts, but not good enough to act on.

The buildings we hit tonight were reduced to dust and there's nothing left but a large crater.

 

[RaySharpton]

Thank you, Elaine. Here is another reuters.com news announcement:

Targeted Saddam in Bombing, Result Not Known
Mon April 7, 2003 10:09 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Monday bombed a target in Baghdad where Iraqi President Saddam Hussein may have been inside, a U.S. official said.
"There was intelligence that came in this morning which suggested that there was a gathering of Iraqi intelligence officials and possibly including Saddam and both of his sons in a residential district of Baghdad," the official told Reuters.
The information was passed to Central Command which authorized aircraft in the area to bomb the site.
There was no confirmation yet that Saddam or his sons were killed in the strike, the official said.
CNN reported that the building targeted in the bombing was completely destroyed.
Another U.S. official told Reuters U.S. forces struck "leadership targets of opportunity" in Baghdad, but declined to say who was the target or whether Saddam and his two sons were believed dead or alive.
The fate of Saddam and those of his sons, Qusay and Uday, have been the subject of intense speculation since they were targeted in an initial U.S. strike on March 19 on a residential compound on the outskirts of Baghdad.
That initial bombing started the U.S.-led war against Iraq. A man believed to be Saddam has been seen on videotapes aired on Iraqi television since that first strike but it has been unclear when those tapes were made, shedding little light on whether the Iraqi president had survived that first strike.

 

[RaySharpton]

Geoff_M, thank you for the information. I wonder if they have tapes of Saddam talking about WMD, etc.?

The USA must have been waiting for Saddam and his sons and some of his generals to be in the same spot.

They said on Fox-news that even though that had a huge bunker below that house, they think that they were all above ground in the house.

 

[jenjie]

We'd better have gotten him. If not, we have just let him know how we are tracking him, etc. I hope we did!