Source: Page 119 of White Noise Keywords: "upstairs," "hurry," "Lux"

From: indiotainousa@hotmail.com (Indio Taino) Subject: Este es el amigo de los Talibanes Izquierdistas Date: 11 Apr 2003 Newsgroups: soc.culture.dominican-rep

Lo siguiente es un articulo publicado en el Star-Ledger hoy 4-11-03 en la pagina principal... este articulo describe como vivia Saddam mientras el pueblo se tragaba un cable... ojala que los Gringo lo agarren y le muelan la cabeza. De acuerdo a la CIA en la pagina http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ seleccionando a IRAK en "Select a Country" dice que la mortalidad infantil es de: 57.61 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.) La Republica Dominicana que no le da ni por los tobillos a Irak en riqueza y entrada de capital anual tiene una mortalidad infantil de: 33.41 deaths/1,000 live births (2002 est.) Regimen como este, el de Fidel Castro, el de el loco de Corea Del Norte, el de la China, etc. son los que apoyan estos marditos Talibanes Izquierdistas. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The luxurious taste of a brutal dictator In a vast Tigris palace, tank battalion finds Italian suits, French wines and Persian carpets Friday, April 11, 2003 BY DAVID ZUCCHINO LOS ANGELES TIMES BAGHDAD, Iraq -- For the record, Saddam Hussein seems to prefer Italian suits, double-breasted, by Canali and Luca's. He favors silk ties in solids or subtle patterns. He brushes with Colgate. The dictator's clothes were hanging yesterday in the wardrobe of a luxurious upstairs bedroom in one of the dozens of compounds within a palace complex that stretches for two miles along the west bank of the Tigris River here. On a coffee table lay a wedding album containing photos of Saddam cutting a wedding cake, and on a bureau were snapshots of his sons, Ouday and Qusay, as young boys. Lt. Col. Philip deCamp, commander of a tank battalion that pounded its way onto the palace grounds Monday, rifled through the photos. He let out a soft whistle, amazed to be standing in the room where Saddam apparently had slept, perhaps very recently. "Hey," deCamp said, pointing to three fully packed suitcases stacked in an anteroom. "It looks like he left in a pretty big hurry." Yesterday was a day of revelations for the armored crews and commanders camped at the palace -- one of dozens built by Saddam, who is known for changing his location almost nightly -- as the battle for Baghdad wore on. They discovered a pen of emaciated lions, cheetahs and bears on the palace grounds, and a stroll through the rose gardens revealed the rotting corpses of Iraqi soldiers blown from sandy bunkers by the crews' tank rounds. Scouts from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division found a live sheep and fed it to a cheetah, which was joined in the feast by three lions. Across the pen, a thin brown bear cub bound through the grass, dragging the entrails of a sheep provided earlier by the same scouts. The soldiers laughed in approval. On the other side of the palace, an engineer battalion tore into the dry earth with backhoes to dig graves. Local Iraqis were recruited to ensure that the bodies were properly washed in the Muslim tradition and buried facing Mecca. Civil affairs officers marked the locations with hand-held GPS systems, and recorded the graves in notebooks. They had buried 15 by midafternoon, with scores more waiting in the gardens and in bunkers carved into the riverbank. The palace was so large deCamp had his men count the rooms and write the numbers on a index card: 142 offices, 64 bathrooms, 19 meeting rooms, 22 kitchens, countless bedrooms, one movie theater, five "huge ballrooms" and one "football-field sized monster ballroom." Even a cursory tour took hours, through mirrored hallways, across marble floors, beneath intricately tile-domed entryways. In Saddam's bedroom, deCamp thumbed through a Newsweek magazine on a night stand. The cover story was "Inside America's new way of war," an examination of high-tech U.S. weaponry. "Guess he was trying to get ready for us," said deCamp, who commands the 4th Battalion in the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade -- the brigade that took central Baghdad. He spotted a black fedora, the type seen in a popular photo of Saddam firing a shotgun with one hand. DeCamp admired it in his hands. In adjoining rooms were more family snapshots -- Saddam kissing young boys and greeting women wearing head scarves. There were many photos of a dark-haired woman, at various ages, perhaps one of Saddam's wives or daughters. In a closet were black and navy blue suits, tailored for a tall, barrel-chested man. Many were still inside garment bags, tailors' tags on their sleeves. Dress shirts with French cuffs were hung neatly in long rows. In a bathroom with brass fittings lay a toothbrush and toothpaste, a crimson bathrobe, a razor and a bar of Lux soap. Next door, in a study, were shelves of Arabic language books, one containing a photo of Joseph Stalin, reported to be Saddam's role model. Down a spiral staircase, in rooms with gilded chairs and tables, were more photos of family gatherings, showing a young, black-mustachioed Saddam eating and laughing with smiling military officers. A fully equipped dentist's office occupies one room. These were intimate, unscripted moments, different from the stylized images of the dictator that adorned all public buildings in Iraq. U.S. intelligence officers concluded that Saddam had stayed in the compound recently. The property was secured, to be scoured by "the alphabet," OGA and ODA, "other government agencies" such as the CIA and FBI, and "operational detachment A's," or Special Forces "A" teams. They had already seized a trove of Ministry of Engineering documents detailing illicit oil sales, officers said. DeCamp moved on to another ornate compound where, the night before, his battalion had discovered a hoard of luxury items. He dragged open a door. Inside were vast supplies of TV sets, Moet champagne, Russian vodka, imported American cigarettes, 150 Persian carpets, Parker pen sets, French wines and expensive Lladro figurines. These, according to the colonel, were gratuities handed out by Saddam's functionaries to favored members of the ruling Ba'ath Party. He offered no explanation for the cache of UNICEF children's clothes and toys. Also on display yesterday was the home of Saddam's deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz. His home was struck by looters. They drove tractors, pickup trucks and trailers. They stole everything from paintings to curtains, and stripped the electrical wires from the villa's main switchboard. The Aziz home -- in contrast with Saddam's austerely formal palaces -- has the look of a suburban trophy house, tucked behind a sculptured hedge in a nice neighborhood on Baghdad's east side. The heavy, carved-wood double doors open onto a dining room with cases of fine tea sets and silverware. On the dining room table, as if set aside for hanging, are two large photographs of Aziz and his wife dancing cheek to cheek. The kitchen is spacious and looks lived-in. Appliances sit out on the counters beside several Christian icons and Virgin Mary figurines, totems of the faith that always set Aziz apart from his overwhelmingly Muslim country. A bulletin board is layered with snapshots from Aziz family life: celebrating Christmas, playing in a snowstorm, visiting the seashore. And of course, Aziz beaming beside his friend and mentor, Saddam. Star-Ledger wire services contributed to this report. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Publicado en: http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1050042576145100.xml?...

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