Rumsfeld (Offers) to Free Saddam Administrators If He Stops Insurgence

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Zaman Daily Newspaper ^ | April 28, 2005 | Anadolu News Agency

The are claims that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during his last visit to Iraq met with ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

According to a news article based on Iraqi Baath sources in Jordan, published in the London based Al-Quds Al Arabi newspaper, Rumsfeld met with Saddam in his cell in Baghdad and asked Saddam to end the insurgence.

The paper claims that Rumsleld asked him on a television broadcast to call for the insurgents to end resistance against the US and multi-national forces as well as Iraqi security forces.

Rumsfeld offered in return release and exile of administrators in the overthrown Iraqi regieme or (acceptance) of those who are willing to be involved in the government after negotiations.

Baath sources in Jordan reported that Saddam refused the offer.


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[JDPriestly]

1. Is Saddam supposed to be organizing

the insurgents from his cell? Does Rumsfeld understand what is going on at all?

[Fridays Child]

2. So Saddam is still ascendant? The man is in prison, no WMDs...

...were ever found, and B*sh has sacrificed more than 1,600 Americans plus untold tens of thousands of Iraqis. And Rumsfeld is trying to negotiate with Saddam for an end to the violence?

This isn't Vietnam redux. This is much worse.

[Bouncy Ball]

3. BWAAA!!!

OMG. I don't know whether to laugh because this is so insane or throw up because our "leaders" are so damn stupid and incompetent.

WTF makes him think SH is leading the insurgents/rebels?

He's in a fucking cell and has been there for MONTHS.

How stupid IS rumsfeld? THAT needs to be the question of the day. Just where are the bounds of this guy's ignorance?

SH is in charge of exactly shit.

[Fridays Child]

4. Here's the link.

http://www.zaman.com/?hn=18939&bl=hotnews

[The Magistrate]

6. For That Kind Of Information, Ma'am

This does not seem a particularly reliable source....

[Goldeneye]

8. I'm thinking the same thing.

"there are claims..." sounds like ol' Judy Woodruff herself. Does anyone have any other links?

[Fridays Child]

10. Just providing the link.. Further the affiant sayeth naught.

;)

[Lucygirl]

5. Oh yeah Rummy that'll work...

What's next?

Free Frosty's?

[Goldeneye]

7. Hmmm...asking Sadaam for favors?

things must be going...well.

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