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Chalabi says Saddam seen north of Baghdad
New York, June 11: Saddam Hussein has been seen north of Baghdad and is paying a bounty for every American soldier killed, the leader of an Iraqi exile group said on Tuesday.
New York, June 11: Saddam Hussein has been seen north
of Baghdad and is paying a bounty for every American soldier
killed, the leader of an Iraqi exile group said on Tuesday.
Saddam has $1.3 billion in cash taken from the Iraqi
Central Bank on March 18, is bent on revenge and believes he
can ``sit it out and get the Americans going,'' said Ahmed
Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress.
In Washington, US defense officials said today they had no information that Saddam was alive and offering bounties for killing US troops.
But Saddam also bought suicide vests for himself and his secretary on April 1 from the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi secret police, Chalabi said.
The ousted Iraqi leader has been sighted on several recent occasions moving in an arc from Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, a round the Tigris river toward his hometown of Tikrit and into the Dulaimi areas to the west of the Tigris, Chalabi said.
The latest sighting was about two weeks before Chalabi left on his current US trip _ and the best sighting was three days old.
``Now, he's put a price on American soldiers. He will pay bounty for every American soldier killed in Iraq now. This has been spread around in the western part of the country,'' Chalabi told the council on foreign relations, a private New York-based international advocacy organisation and publisher of the journal foreign affairs.
He said the casualty rate for American soldiers ``is close to one a day, which is not good.'' Bureau Report
In Washington, US defense officials said today they had no information that Saddam was alive and offering bounties for killing US troops.
But Saddam also bought suicide vests for himself and his secretary on April 1 from the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi secret police, Chalabi said.
The ousted Iraqi leader has been sighted on several recent occasions moving in an arc from Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, a round the Tigris river toward his hometown of Tikrit and into the Dulaimi areas to the west of the Tigris, Chalabi said.
The latest sighting was about two weeks before Chalabi left on his current US trip _ and the best sighting was three days old.
``Now, he's put a price on American soldiers. He will pay bounty for every American soldier killed in Iraq now. This has been spread around in the western part of the country,'' Chalabi told the council on foreign relations, a private New York-based international advocacy organisation and publisher of the journal foreign affairs.
He said the casualty rate for American soldiers ``is close to one a day, which is not good.'' Bureau Report