the Almighty Dollar — Apr 2003 (26 Apr 2003 #21218)

The
reason that Baghdad fell so
easily, according to the
sources interviewed by Hamuda,
is that the CIA paid millions
of dollars to a core group of
Iraqi generals not to put up a
fight.

Thursday, Apr. 24, 2003

COMMENTARY

Hussein in Cuba? Let it be true

by
Jim DeFede

David
Irving comments:

WE were one of the first English-language news sources to report the extraordinary allegations (which may of course be a massive wodge of particularly nasty disinformation) that the US government had used some of the billions it saved in its failed
Turkey buy-out to bribe its way out of a square fight in Baghdad instead. After all, it made sense — if you have that kind of taxpayer money to burn, and you don’t intend spending it on hospitals, education or the welfare of the ordinary US

citizen, it is better to bribe a few Iraqi generals than to waste money pooping off expensive missiles at a million dollars a bang.

(The US arms industry would disagree). Am I however the only one who is still uneasy at the facility with which the new White House has adopted the course of “targeted killing” pioneered by those nice gentlemen in Israel (and for that matter their immediate forebears, the
Stern Gang and the Irgun Zwei
Leumi in Palestine in the
1940s)? Somewhere in heaven, the battered, indeed shredded, figure of Lord
Moyne may well be wagging an admonishing finger at

George
Bush Jr for having made salonfähig, fashionable, a practice which his predecessors
Roosevelt and Churchill rightly condemned as “terrorism” in World
War II and the immediate aftermath. The United
States is however the home of that phrase “What goes around comes around.” If an Islamic assassin comes around to Texas one day, and that smirk gets wiped off that face, don’t say that Lord Moyne didn’t warn you.

I WISH we could hear today what
Robert H Jackson would have to say about what Bush and his mafia have done to his legal achievements.

Jackson was the
Chief American Prosecutor at
Nuremberg in 1945-1946, and one of my heroes for his simple-minded and straightforward belief that it might yet be possible to lay a basis for legislating against war crimes. There is a nauseating stench of hypocrisy in two governments, the British and
US, which — for whatever concealed motives of their own —
use weapons of mass destruction against a country which has done them no wrong and bore them no malice. Here were two

countries totaling some 320
million inhabitants, setting upon a nation of rather under 25
millions “like wolves,” as
George Galloway so rightly said. They have killed, from a safe altitude and distance or from behind foot-thick walls of armourplate, tens of thousands of citizens of that country, using cannon fire, machine-guns, “daisy-cutters,” vacuum blast warheads, scatter bombs, and for that matter sheer starvation; they have ignored their Geneva obligations to

protect civilians, respect the infrastructure, and leave hospitals inviolate; and now they are seizing its remaining leaders and declaring them to be the war criminals. The world is asked to applaud a United States president who has announced in advance and entrenched in US law two fearful new principles

– his country will remain outside the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court
— because Tony Blair, George W
Bush and their henchmen might well qualify to become very early candidates for the dock and have their real motives examined; and

— his government will reserve the right to invade any country where US soldiers and politicians may find themselves put on trial for war crimes, and release them by force from custody.

This is in case some of them visiting
Belgium for example at some time in the future might find themselves indicted. It is a thought provoking situation. Bob Jackson, wherever you are, please give us a sign. What do you make of it all?

SADDAM Hussein is alive and living in Cuba. Don’t just take my word for it. I got this information straight from the April 21 issue of the
Egyptian newspaper Soat el Umma,
which in Arabic means Voice of the
Nation.

OK, I know what you are saying: “Soat el Umma? Soat el Umma! That scandal sheet.
I wouldn’t wrap 3-day-old samak in Soat el
Umma.’

Maybe you’re right. Soat el Umma
is sort of The National Enquirer of
Cairo. But even The National
Enquirer is right once in a while.

The report by Adel Hamuda is quite detailed and claims to be based on interviews with unnamed British intelligence officials.

The reason that Baghdad fell so easily, according to the sources interviewed by
Hamuda, is that the CIA paid millions of dollars to a core group of Iraqi generals not to put up a fight. Some of those generals were given U.S. passports and are now living in the United States.

‘But the surprise that is highly believed in the political and strategic
British circles,’ according to Hamuda’s story, “is that ex-Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein is still alive and he participated himself in sealing a deal to hand over Baghdad to American forces without the firing of one bullet.

In return, he was allowed to leave Iraq in a convoy that included the Russian ambassador in Baghdad and consisted of 17
cars, which is much larger than the customary number of cars used by the embassy.’

Russia was one
of the last countries to pull out of
Baghdad. As U.S. troops were marching
on the Iraqi capital, a caravan of
Russian diplomats left Baghdad on April
6 and crossed into Syria. Ever since,
there have been rumors that Hussein was
in that convoy.

‘The cars crossed the Syrian borders, and there Saddam Hussein and some of his family members and some of his assistants rode a plane, which was ready to take off, to the Cuban capital of Havana,’ Hamuda reported.

Even more shocking, Hamuda wrote that
Hussein left with the blessing of the
United States.

‘The Americans agreed to the deal, which was supervised in Moscow by American
National Security Advisor Condoleezza
Rice and contributed to by the ex-Soviet Prime Minister Primakov, who was the last Russian official to meet
Saddam Hussein,’ Hamuda wrote.

As one would expect, the corporate-controlled media in America have been slow to pick up this story. And just as one might expect, officials in the
United States seemed cagey and evasive when confronted with the Soat el
Umma exposé.

‘The Soat el what? You probably want to call the Department of Defense,’ said a
State Department spokesman.

Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col.
Dave Lapan said reports of Hussein in Cuba are “interesting, but absolutely false.’

‘If we knew where he was, we’d be after him,’ he added.

I almost believed him.

Joe Garcia, of the Cuban
American National Foundation, said Fidel
Castro “doesn’t have the [fill in the blank] to take in Saddam Hussein.’

Too bad. If Hussein really was in Cuba, it would be just like the old TV show The
Odd Couple. But instead of Felix and
Oscar, we’d have Saddam and Fidel.

CUE ANNOUNCER:

On April 6, Saddam Hussein was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. [Sound effect of cruise missile exploding.] That request came from the United States.

Deep down, he knew she was right. But he also knew that someday he would return to Iraq.

With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his longtime friend Fidel
Castro. Sometime earlier, the United
States had tried to throw him out, requesting that he never return.

Can two dictatorial men share an apartment without driving each other razy?

CUE MUSIC.

All I can say is: “Please, God, let it be true and I’ll never ask for anything again.’

© 2003 The
Miami Herald

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Probably Hiding says Hoon
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