SH Hit

[gnomesmith]

Foreign Office have just announced that it is likely that Saddam Hussain was killed instantly in the first strike of the war.

What has happened to his long standing foreign minister, rumours that he has (1) been hanged or (2) defected, certainly haven't seen him on TV

[beano500]

Where d'ya get that one from?

[shnozz]

people dont care about unimportant things like this when Mungo's hairstyle is being talked about

[gnomesmith]

BBC1 @ 1655 & 1700 hrs



>> Edited by gnomesmith on Friday 21st March 17:12

[Bonce]

I saw his foreign minister giving a press conference whilst waving a shiny AK-47 (or some-such weapon) this afternoon on News24.

...Or was that his internal minister? I forget job titles.

Did wonder what effect John Prescott would have giving a press conference in military uniform and waving an automatic rifle.

[gnomesmith]

The one I mean was Tariq (Aziz or something), name has just escaped me but he has been the mouth piece since the last Gulf War.

Smug looking guy with a moustache, not that that narrows it down.

Iraq are currently claiming that there has been no incursion into Iraq, the troops are surrounding Bazzra.

B52s are now arriving over Baghdad. Oil fields captured, only 7 wells ignited.

[dave_s13]

FYI

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2868115.stm

Bloody lucky if they got him, I doubt it though.

[nubbin]

I think they did get him, because the almost complete lack of co-ordinated resistance to the invasion, suggests there is no topend to the command structure. I reckon Saddam, Tariq Aziz and Saddam's sons were all taken out. That bloke who appeared on TV was not Saddam, he looked nothing like him, and read anxiously from scribbled notes, and had to wear glasses to do so. Saddam has never been seen in public with glasses and has always been calm, self-assured, and spoken from his mental notes.

The main US army thrust, must be 250-300miles into Iraq - surely they would have met some resistance by now, if commands were going out?