A relevant quote from today's news, not meant to stir the pot, but to provide additional information:
"Teams of American special forces are preparing to hunt and kill Saddam Hussein and his inner circle, USA Today reported yesterday, quoting a senior Pentagon official. Members of the elite Delta Force are ready to storm President Saddam's palaces and attack official convoys. They have been ordered to capture or kill the leader, his sons Qusay and Uday, and 12 other senior figures dubbed 'the dirty dozen'. "The expectation is to kill him within days," the official said. "It's what Delta has been training 24/7 to do." -----Original Message----- From: John Dutton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 10:17 AM To: 'Hans Pizka'; Memphis Hornlist Subject: RE: [Hornlist] question NHR Dear Hans, The President did not order the Delta Force to "kill" SH. This is exaggeration on the part of your media outlet. Mention has been made in a very recent press conference of surrender by SH and senior ministers (or exhile) being very welcome by the Bush administration still. Artillery is being fired now into Iraq and a selective missile strike was sent to Baghdad. I respect and appreciate your concern for all the troops and we all pray for as bloodless a conflict as is now possible. John Dutton -----Original Message----- From: Hans Pizka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 March, 2003 8:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Hornlist] question NHR Dear American friends, I have one important question today: As we have head lines as "Kill him !" The president ordered his DELTA force to kill pres S.H., I am asking, if that is true. I did not watch all the speeches from pres. Bush in the TV as important they may be, so I might have missed it or the press is exaggerating or lying as so often. If pres. Bush has really ordered his special forces to kill the president of a sovereign state (not to talk here about a special air strike, which is another question), it would really be a cowboy act against any law, no question that S.H. is a criminal against humanity. Ordering the killings of another head of state did not even happen in the darkest era of fascist Germany. Capture S.H. by special forces, kidnapping him (even questionable also; see the Eichmann case by the Mossad), bringing S.H. to the International Tribunal, even then judging him for capital punishment, well, that would (so, so) go with international law. Otherwise the above mentioned killing order would be a Mafia like processing, even S.H. deserves the death for his criminal acts. I thought that the US government would be real democratic. May-be a false assumption. Please respond, not discussing this issue, just inform me what is true. Thank you. But be assured, I am thinking about the poor young guys in the desert, on both sides performing no more than just their duty for their respective country. Let us hope, that this nightmare will be over very soon. Prof.Hans Pizka, Pf.1136 D-85541 Kirchheim - Germany Fax: 49 89 903-9414 Phone: 903-9548 home: www.pizka.de email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/fred_baucom%40calpers.ca.gov _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
