{"id":1578,"date":"2003-05-26T23:53:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-27T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2003-05-26T23:53:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-27T03:53:00","slug":"bullied-and-bought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/05\/26\/23\/53\/bullied-and-bought\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullied And Bought"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this report that the US bribed one of Iraq’s senior generals to hand over Baghdad<\/a> with minimal resistance, then faked his death while they put him into some kind of witness protection program. Maybe the Baathists are now living next door to the Wiseguys? Anyway, this agrees with other people’s suspicion’s concerning the invasion endgame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A senior member of Saddam Hussein’s government handed Baghdad over to U.S. troops in exchange for a pay-off and a safe exit from Iraq … Soufiane al Tikriti, head of the Special Republican Guard in Baghdad, ordered his troops not to defend the capital against attack by U.S. and British forces, and particularly to hold fire against coalition helicopters circling over the city … Tikriti was paid several hundred thousand dollars and, along with 20 family members, was ferried in a U.S. aircraft out of the country on April 8 … the Pentagon sent notice to reporters that Tikriti had been killed as he fled the capital in a white Toyota Sedan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a>Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this report that the US bribed one of Iraq’s senior generals to hand over Baghdad with minimal resistance, then faked his death while they put him into some kind of witness protection...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t