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Iraqi Commander Swears he saw USAF Fly Saddam out of Baghdad

Author's Note:
This article first appeared on FarShores on 8/12/03.
In the interest of accuracy, I have pulled that draft
and replaced it with this updated version.
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Film will soon be made public of an Iraqi Army officer describing how he saw
a US Air Force transport fly Saddam Hussein out of Baghdad. The explosive
eyewitness testimony was shot by independent filmmaker Patrick Dillon, who
recently returned from a risky one-man odyssey in Iraq. In the film, the
officer, who told Dillon that he commanded a special combat unit during the
battle for Baghdad airport and whose identity is temporarily being withheld,
explains in detail how he watched as the Iraqi dictator and members of his
inner circle were evacuated from Iraq's capital by what he emphatically
insists were United States Air Force cargo planes.
Presently, the only copies of the film (which I have not yet seen) are in
New York City. People who have viewed it describe it to me as compelling.

Dillon told me by phone that, prior to the final assault on the capital by
American ground forces, the officer had been entrusted with the near
impossible job of ensuring that one of Baghdad airport's runways would
remain operational no matter what. In civilian life the officer is
reportedly a highly trained civil engineer specializing in airport
operations. He states he was selected to command this hazardous mission in
part because of his expertise in concrete surface construction. He goes on
to report that there was a ferocious battle at the airport, with losses on
both sides far worse than the mainstream news services acknowledge. He
deviates even further from officially sanctioned accounts, by unequivocally
stating that the battle for control of the airport actually lasted several
days longer than commonly believed, dragging on through April 8th and
culminating around dawn on the morning of the 9th. Most news sources cite
April 4th as the day when the airport fell. But many conventional accounts
also acknowledge, if only in passing, uncertainty as to exactly when the
airport was fully subdued,frequently offering the 5th and the 6th as other
possibilities. Virtually everyone agrees on April 9th as the day that the
battle for the entire city officially ended.
In any event, the officer adamantly maintains that his combat/construction
brigade, despite heavy casualties, managed to hold off US troops and
preserve a useable length of runway right through the night of April the
8th.

Then early on the morning of April 9th, as the remnants of his unit were
close to being overrun, a general cease-fire was unexpectedly declared for 6
AM. Shortly after it went into effect, and in broad daylight, the officer
claims a motorcade of 10 Mercedes stretch limos suddenly barreled onto the
airfield, carrying Saddam and his entourage. Almost simultaneously, a flight
of what the officer asserts were four USAF Hercules transports swooped down
and landed on the lone stretch of intact runway. All four C-130s dropped
their rear loading ramps and the limos drove up into the cargo bays of the
waiting planes, which then took off. The officer insists he has no idea
where Saddam or any of the other members of his party may have gone.

Dillon says his film lends major support to what many have believed for
years: that Saddam was little more than an american tool, a stage-managed
"evildoer", just one in a long line of useful villains bought and paid for
by the United States in order to better manipulate international politics
and commerce. The gutsy New York based filmmaker, who risked his life amid
the chaos of postwar Iraq, says that much of the Iraqi populace believes
Saddam is not dead and they worry he could still exact revenge from afar.
While many Iraqi civilians initially welcomed American forces, Dillon told
me most Iraqis, having now had a bitter taste of American occupation, feel
enraged with the US and its soldiers. Dillon said living conditions in Iraq
are horrible and that little of significance is being done to relieve the
situation.

Based on what he saw during his travels, Dillon told me he's convinced the
war and its sweeping devastation of the Iraqi nation is in reality a mind
boggling charade. Rather than liberating Iraq, its actual purpose is to
corral Iraq's huge oil reserves and to serve as a pretext for channeling
tens of billions in largesse to favored American corporations like
Haliburton and Bechtel. As an example, Dillon pointed to how US air strikes
systematically obliterated every last Iraqi telecommunications facility from
one end of the country to the other, a measure he maintains vastly exceeded
all practical military necessity. Then, without even the pretense of a
competitive bid, Washington gifted WorldCom, the near bankrupt US telecom
giant responsible for the greatest fraud in financial history, with a huge
multi-billion dollar contract to build Iraq a new nationwide
state-of-the-art telephone system.

Copyright ©2003 - Bill Dash

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