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The Mad Monk is offline The Mad Monk
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http://www.netzeitung.de/spezial/irak/255432.html

I would appreciate it if someone could translate and give their opinion -- is this site reputable?

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Press: Hussein negotiates with the USA about exile 21. September 16:53 Saddam Hussein photo: AP Ex dictator Saddam Hussein negotiates allegedly with the USA to reach by means of the possibilities an exile for it. According to a newspaper report it is to have demanded the departure to white Russia. Search for Hussein Hussein calls Iraqis to resistance on Hussein informant waits again still for reward Nehm determined against Saddam Hussein Hussein denies responsibility for notice in Nadschaf The entmachtete Iraqi head of state Saddam Hussein is to have tried after a British newspaper report in secret negotiations with the USA to obtain its course in the exile. As the "Sunday Mirror" reports with reference to a struggle-high Iraqi, Hussein led secret negotiations with US armed forces in the past nine days. The ex head of state is therefore to have demanded and in response to information about massenvernichtungswaffen have offered free escort to white Russia, writes the sheet. US president George W. Bush, like it is called held, of its Sicherheitsberaterin Condoleezza Rice over the discussions up to date, which was led by the commander in chief of US armed forces in Iraq, Ricardo Sanchez. The newspaper quoted the struggle-high Iraqi with the words, on 12 September a representative Saddam Husseins in western clothes to the US army into the Iraqi city Tikrit came, in order to take up negotiations. The ex head of state aims at such a trade, because he "desperately and" and can on ever less humans are imprisoned count, who grant him Unterschlupf. (nz)

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I read the same story in an Israeli news site as well.

It claims that the US is secretly negociating with Saddam about refuge to Bielorus, in exchange for exact information on the weapons and programs of mass destruction that he had.

I think it's most probably either complete lies, or a very inaccurate truth.

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I doubt it's reputable. The news story is ridiculous, and makes no sense (why would we negotiate? capturing saddam would be good PR for us, and good for Bush's reelection)

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Here's a rough translation using Systran:
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Press: Hussein negotiates with the USA about exile

Ex dictator Saddam Hussein negotiates allegedly with the USA to reach by means of the possibilities an exile for it. According to a newspaper report it is to have demanded the departure to white Russia.

The entmachtete Iraqi head of state Saddam Hussein is to have tried after a British newspaper report in secret negotiations with the USA to obtain its course in the exile. As the "Sunday Mirror" reports with reference to a struggle-high Iraqi, Hussein led secret negotiations with US armed forces in the past nine days.
The ex head of state is therefore to have demanded and in response to information about massenvernichtungswaffen have offered free escort to white Russia, writes the sheet. US president George W. Bush, like it is called held, of its Sicherheitsberaterin Condoleezza Rice over the discussions up to date, which was led by the commander in chief of US armed forces in Iraq, Ricardo Sanchez.

The newspaper quoted the struggle-high Iraqi with the words, on 12 September a representative Saddam Husseins in western clothes to the US army into the Iraqi city Tikrit came, in order to take up negotiations. The ex head of state aims at such a trade, because he "desperately and" and can on ever less humans are imprisoned count, who grant him Unterschlupf.

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Sunday Mirror:

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DESPERATE SADDAM OFFERS AMERICANS DEAL

Sep 21 2003


From Paul Martin In Baghdad


SADDAM Hussein has been in secret negotiations with US forces in Iraq for the past nine days, we can reveal.

The Iraqi dictator is demanding safe passage to the former Soviet republic of Belarus. In exchange, he has vowed to provide information on weapons of mass destruction and disclose bank accounts where he siphoned off tens of millions of dollars in plundered cash.

President Bush is being kept abreast of the extraordinary talks by his National Security advisor Condoleezza Rice. She is co-ordinating negotiations in Baghdad which are led by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of American forces in Iraq.

The United States has vowed never to negotiate with Saddam and want to take him dead or alive, but the White House hopes the clandestine talks will allow them to pinpoint the tyrant's exact location.

Saddam's English-speaking representative walked into the US HQ at Tikrit - the dictator's home town - on September 12 and asked to talk to senior officers.

He then led a group of US troops to a nearby suburb where one of Saddam's loyal security chiefs was waiting. The US officers were handed a hand-written note, purportedly from Saddam himself.

The security boss had a British-made Racal military radio set which he claimed gave him direct contact with people in the same room as the dictator. The radio is notoriously difficult to monitor.

He was immediately taken into custody, but the US has continued to exchange messages with Saddam using the radio and other means.

A senior Iraqi told The Sunday Mirror last night: "A representative of Saddam dressed in Western-style civilian clothes came to coalition people at Tikrit at sunset on September 12. He led them to a house where the security official was waiting.

"The discussions are now going on under the direct authority of General Sanchez. Naturally all the major decisions are being made at the level of the National Security Council, under Condoleezza Rice."

He maintained that Saddam had decided to seek a deal "because he is desperate, trapped and finding fewer and fewer people willing to give him shelter."

He added: "He resorts to arriving with a posse of armed men, and forcing them to give him hospitality. When he leaves the frightened 'hosts' are told they'll be killed if they say a word."

It is believed the US authorities will simply string Saddam along, aiming to track the go-betweens until they know exactly where to find the rogue leader.

"There's no doubt the net is closing, and that his supporters' efforts to get the Americans to pull out of Iraq are not succeeding," said the source.

"They can cause disruption and problems, but this does not bring Saddam any nearer to coming back to power, and he now knows it. The negotiators will try to keep the line of communication open as long as possible, but the word from Washington is: 'No deal'."

Saddam left strong hints that he was willing to talk in his last audio tape on Wednesday. It had a strongly defiant tone, but contained two significant indications that he was keen for a deal:

-SADDAM addressed the US president directly and gave him a possible get-out for a negotiated surrender. "There might be some who lied to you, but you believed those lies," he said, hinting that coalition intelligence was badly wrong.

-HE added: "If you want to discuss the withdrawal arrangements, some of the officials in the leadership arrested by your army ... you can contact them and hold a suitable dialogue."

Although Saddam was still proposing an unconditional American withdrawal from Iraq, coalition chiefs took his latest statement as a willingness to talk.

Since the fall of Baghdad in April the dictator has remained on the run.

Saddam-hunters say he moves disguised as a peasant or labourer in a long white dishdasha (gown), especially in remote countryside.

Fearing he will be spotted and betrayed, he seldom stays in one place for more than two hours. He is often sheltered by tribal leaders whom he appointed to replace the real leaders during his reign of terror.

"They owe their very existence and their status and money to him, so they feel a strong obligation," said one hunter.

"But the feeling of obligation gets less and less as time passes and the pressure mounts."

He is also believed to have made brief visits to Baghdad in brazen defiance of the occupying US forces.

One senior Iraqi told me: "He had set up over 1,000 hiding places before the fall, and I guess he goes from one to the other these days. When he was in power, even cabinet ministers wouldn't know where meetings were to be held.

"They were taken to a small bus, or if they were very senior the security sent a car. He's been a master of survival."

Saddam hunters have issued several photofit images of how he might look.

He has apparently run out of black hair-dye and will almost certainly have white hair.

"He's moving every two hours and he's not staying set," said Colonel Don Campbell, chief of staff of the 4th Infantry Division. "He has to."

Saddam has demanded to go to Belarus, the former Soviet republic which still has a president and leadership descended from the old guard Communist Party era.

Before the war the Americans told Saddam he could leave the country, but he spurned the offer.

Since then President Bush has rejected any idea of making a deal with the ousted leader and has put a $25million dead-or-alive bounty on his head.

-AN American soldier shot and killed a tiger in Baghdad's zoo after it attacked a colleague who had put his arms through the bars to feed it. "They turned up after the zoo was closed and were both drunk", an Iraqi keeper said.



http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/...-name_page.html

I'm not buying it myself, but what is the reliability record of these sources?

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"Sunday Mirror"

I know I'm prejudging, but the name doesn't lend itself credence.

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Looked at their site; it's a tabloid.

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Thanks for the translations, guys.

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What do our UK posters think of the Mirror?

Is this the Mirror as in the "Times - Mirror Polls" I occasionally see referenced?

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There was a story in the Mirror that wasn't about some celebrity gossip?

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What do our UK posters think of the Mirror?

Is this the Mirror as in the "Times - Mirror Polls" I occasionally see referenced?


It's a down-market populist tabloid with a mild left-wing slant.

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Words that automats dont know:

entmachte- overthrown/ took Power away
massenvernichtungswaffen -Weapons of Mass destruction,
yes the germans have a Single Word for it
Sicherheitsberaterin -Security Counc.
'Unterschlupf' means Hideout

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What do our UK posters think of the Mirror?


Laz and Mike summed it up nicely. It's the kind of tabloid that often has 75% of it's front page taken up with a picture of a big-breasted blonde in her underwear. The other 25% of the front page will likely be about the latest plot developments of a soap opera.

It doesn't publish absurd lies of the "Elvis found on Moon!" or "Man turns into dog!" variety, but it's not really a respectable news source.

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What wrong with Pictures of Big/Small/Medium-breasted Blondes/brunette/etc. in Underwear on the Front Page?
Every Paper should have it!
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well, maybe on the inside cover...

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I think it's got the same credibility as a Fox, MSNBC, or CNN...

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Apparently a "senior Iraqi" is the source. So some old codger makes up a story and the press prints it.

Here are some other German articles: der, die, das, den, dem, des

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