NP - War Update (Unconfirmed)

[Richard Ryan]

Unconfirmed is always the key word with Debka -- although I enjoy reading
them.  I remember several months ago they posted a story insisting that Bin
Laudin was in Yemen.

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> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 12:59 PM
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> Subject: NP - War Update (Unconfirmed)
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> http://www.debka.com/
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> IST 16:30
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> DEBKAfile Exclusive: Tareq Aziz, Taha Ramadan defect
>
> According to an exclusive report reaching DEBKAfile from its military and
> intelligence sources, top members of the Saddam Hussein regime
> have begun to
> desert him. Sources in Kurdistan report that deputy prime
> minister Tareq Aziz
> visited Turkey and instead of returning to Baghdad headed into
> Kurdistan and
> went into hiding under Kurdish protection. He is said to be under
> interrogation
> by American intelligence officers. Vice President Taha Yassin
> Ramadan has not
> been seen in Baghdad for three days and may too have fled the country.
>
> Both men were elevated to their positions in 1991 after long
> service to Saddam
> Hussein as his most trusted lieutenants.
>
> From northern Iraq we hear that hundreds of Iraqi soldiers and
> officers are
> streaming to the Turkoman town of Tozkhurmato, discarding their
> weapons outside
> the town and turning themselves in.
>
> From the warfront we hear that the Marine column crossing the
> demilitarized
> line from Kuwait is moving toward Nassariyah in southern Iraq,
> its objective
> being to cross the Euphrates and reach Baghdad in two or three days.
>
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