March 24, 2003
PAGING DR. KEVORKIAN:
SOS for Saddam surgeon (DAVID WOODING, 3/24/03, The Sun)SADDAM Hussein’s henchmen last night pleaded with Russia to find them a top surgeon to save the tyrant’s life.They sent an SOS to Moscow as their leader lay badly wounded at a secret hideaway in Baghdad.
Saddam is believed to have suffered abdominal injuries when cruise missiles scored a direct hit on his bunker on Day One of the war last Thursday.
British intelligence chiefs say that he was hauled from the rubble and whisked away in an ambulance hours after the sudden strike that launched Operation Iraqi Freedom.
They are convinced he underwent a major operation and a blood transfusion. And at one stage thought he may be dead.
But last night experts at GCHQ listening station in Cheltenham intercepted a message which suggests he is still alive — but in need of treatment the Iraqis cannot provide.
Coalition forces will reach Baghdad tomorrow at which time it will be appropriate to reveal to the people of the city, over the television broadcasting towers that we've left in place, that they need no longer fear the tyrant. Hopefully removing the fear of reprisals will hasten the surrender. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 24, 2003 12:09 AM
I dunno. Sometimes the blogosphere's hopes
outrun common sense.
It was reported yesterday on several blogs
that Saddam was seen being taken away
by ambulance with an oxygen mask over his
face. O, really? A transparent oxygen mask?
...and also reported that his personal ambulance was never used, indicating he was dead. Fog of war, I suppose.
Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at March 24, 2003 8:39 AMHarry:
You think you couldn't tell the difference if President Bush or one of the valets was being rushed out of the White House?