U.S. Military Denies Report of Saddam Exile Offer

[salin]

U.S. Military Denies Report of Saddam Exile Offer

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. military on Sunday denied a British media report that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had offered money and information on weapons of mass destruction in return for safe passage to the ex-Soviet republic of Belarus.


The Sunday Mirror newspaper said an aide of the fugitive (news - Y! TV) ex-president had approached U.S. forces in Tikrit and led them to a house in the suburbs. There, they were given a letter, purportedly handwritten by Saddam, proposing talks.

It said negotiations had been going on for nine days covering weaponry and bank accounts containing tens of millions of dollars.

Lt. Col. William MacDonald, spokesman for the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division which controls Tikrit north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, said the story was wrong.

more:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20030921/ts_nm/iraq_saddam_dc

[Moochy]

1. Wheres Saddam?

Here is the Mirror UK report. http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/news/content_objectid=13431908_method=full_siteid=106694_headline=-DESPERATE%2DSADDAM%2DOFFERS%2DAMERICANS%2DDEAL-name_page.html

I wonder why the story about the tiger being shot seemed related somehow to Bush and Saddam.

[Whoa_Nelly]

11. Spin City (am dizzy)

(From above article)

-SADDAM addressed the US president directly and gave him a possible get-out for a negotiated surrender. "There might be some who lied to you, but you believed those lies," he said, hinting that coalition intelligence was badly wrong.

-HE added: "If you want to discuss the withdrawal arrangements, some of the officials in the leadership arrested by your army ... you can contact them and hold a suitable dialogue."

"There might be some who lied to you", and "...hold a suitable dialogue" is found in the TAPE as reported here on 9/17/03:


http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3116544.stm

IMO, The Mirror is twisting the info to spin for Blair and Bush. Other news agencies, such as the ones in Australia, and even one in China, have picked up on this cut and paste of source spin-o-rama reconstruction.

[Nottingham]

2. Well well well! A Denial! But they negotiated for the Defense Minister

wouldn't want to let the world know Bush is negotiating with Terrorists! :bounce:

Wow is this the same time Kennedy came out and talked about the discrepencies of Money in Iraq that Bribes were going on?

and when about Bush asks for the 87 Billion!

Wow my head is spinning with all this!

US Military says its Not true! Course I believe our Military
The same group who told us the Lynch Story! :bounce:

[Nottingham]

3. Great Article Salin! But do you believe our Military!

The same guys who told us the Lynch story! :bounce:

[Nottingham]

4. Heres the article they are talking about

I also have read two other reports from two Australian papers re: Saddam in talks, but both papers use The Mirror as thier source.

Saddam negotiating with US: press
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/09/21/1064082854927.html

and

Saddam in secret negotiations with US: newspaper

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/21/1064082854516.html

from angel!

We got conflicting stories! Who do you believe?

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Thread on the earlier report

Please click here.

[Nottingham]

6. So we have conflicting reports! Somebody is lying!

Who is Lt.Col. William MacDonald?....a flunkie!

Lets hear this denial from Rice and Rummsfeld!

A bit higher ranked person pretty please! :bounce:

[underpants]

7. They actually DENIED it? How stupid can you be?

I don't know if it's true (we probably never will) but on Reuters and Yahoo?

Hey idiots don't comment on something you want to go away.

This tells me that there is something to this if they go out of their way to try to discredit it.

[Nottingham]

8. Ya Underpants! Lets hear from General Sanchez!

a Lt.Colonel denial doesn't cut it! for them to discredit it means
there is something rotten here!

[underpants]

9. Indeed a "Light" Colonel is the lowest acceptable rank

Hey Bob get me a Lt.Colonel to refute this.

Well we have some Majors here who are primed as analysts for MSNBC or FOX...

No they say we need a Lt.Colonel get me one of those....

We have one but he's about to get his full bird.

No, one of the newer models.

Oh yeah we can get one of those if not we'll just make one of our Majors into a Lt. Colonel..

Okay whatever, just get me one..........

Again this is stupid. Denying it gives it weight.

[Minstrel Boy]

10. It's a truism: Don't believe anything until

the official denial.

[Unknown Known]

12. The bushes never BRIBE or COLLUDE with the enemy!

Funny how this story appears right after Ted Kennedy's statement. Hmmmmmmmm!:spank:

[goforit]

13. Ahhhhh...But did anyone ask Rummy?

Did he give him a free ticket???

[Nottingham]

14. A little Bump! 101st is Busy!

:bounce: