Chapter 337: Assassination of Saddam

The fourth shift is complete

Just as Yanayev had predicted, the UN resolution on the air strikes in Baghdad was adopted after the Soviet Union voted against it and China abstained, making it the first U.S.-led offensive air strike mission since the 1991 Gulf War. Although the Soviet Union protested that the United States was a war of aggression that violated national sovereignty, the Americans, who were as domineering as ever, never cared about the feelings of others.

Yanayev is powerless to provide Saddam with anti-aircraft weapons assistance, and even if he can withstand the first wave of US air strikes, what about the second and third waves after the arms embargo? In Iraq, which does not have the ability to produce its own missiles, after shooting all the SAM missiles, it is thought that he can only watch the NATO air raids in a daze at a loss.

A Tomahawk cruise missile is rapidly taking off from the US missile cruiser docked in the waters of the Persian Gulf, and its target is Baghdad, the capital of Afghanistan.

The same F117 fighter jet also quietly approached the sky over Baghdad, as the most advanced stealth bomber in the United States, was used to carry out the decapitation operation guarantee plan B - once the coup and assassination within the army failed, then the F117 stealth fighter will not hesitate to carry out a precise air strike on the Iraqi presidential palace, burying Saddam Hussein in a ruin.

The first Tomahawk missile landed at a large oil refinery in the Dora district of southern Baghdad, and the dazzling flames from the missile's explosion could be seen even in neighborhoods a few kilometers away. The flames of the refinery reddened the grey sky, and the billowing smoke drifted with it. With the landing of the first Tomahawk missile, an air defense warning of a red alert sounded over Baghdad. Then the second fell on the base of Saddam's air defense forces. Attempts to paralyze their air defense. Two others landed in Iraqi residential areas and government buildings, causing heavy casualties among innocent civilians.

The inhabitants were quickly evacuated to the air defense facilities, and the anti-aircraft artillery of the Iraqi air defense forces was also fired, but in the face of the American Tomahawk cruise missiles, the hit rate of these anti-aircraft guns could only be relied on by faith.

As soon as the air raid sirens sounded, Saddam's guard Sabah Mirza led a group of guards to escort Saddam Hussein out of the presidential palace that might be attacked. There are three convoys waiting to depart at any time, and these are all convoys set up by Saddam Hussein to hide people's eyes. Even if the American fighter wants to hit one of the convoys, it has to consider whether the car is riding in Saddam himself.

Death squads loyal to Saddam Hussein in Baghdad are always on standby if the U.S. army enters Baghdad or the rebels in Bajidad want to assassinate Saddam. Then they will suppress it with the most severe means.

Under the protection of a group of guards, Saddam Hussein retreated to the designated location, but when he walked to the underground parking lot, Saddam Hussein, who gradually calmed down, suddenly realized a problem, it was too quiet. It was too quiet all the way. There were no other guards. There were no other guards, only the ones Mirza had brought.

"Wait." Saddam Hussein stopped, and the other guards followed in his footsteps and stopped, turning their heads to look at their president.

"What's the matter, President Saddam, we're almost at the evacuation point." Mirza turned his head with some dissatisfaction, and the moment he looked at Saddam's eyes, he quietly put his finger on the trigger of the rifle.

"You're not here to escort me out. Right? Or maybe you're someone else's team, aren't you? Why didn't I see any other soldiers all the way over? Presumably they have all been separated by you for various reasons. If I'm not mistaken, the people standing here right now are people who want my life. ”

Mirza suddenly laughed, he looked at Saddam Hussein, who was already in a cold sweat on his forehead, and pulled out a pistol from his waist and aimed it at his head, "President, you are indeed very smart, even a little too smart, do you think I don't know that you just want to delay time and ask for help?" Don't think about it, no one here will know if you're alive or dead. ”

"Are you because of your brother, Colonel Mirza? One of the prisoners executed in an attempted coup d'Γ©tat? Saddam sneered, "I shouldn't have given you a chance when I knew that was the case, Mirza." You disappointed me so much, I thought you were loyally denouncing your brother out of loyalty to the leader, but I didn't expect it to keep the fire of revenge. ”

"Shut up!" Mirza roared angrily, and he stepped forward and pointed his gun at Saddam's head, "Do you really think I'm doing it for my brother?" For the sake of the future of this country, to see what Iraq under your rule will look like? The people are not happy, the dictatorship is arbitrary, the people can't see the future and hope in you at all, in their eyes, you are a damn devil! Without democracy and freedom, they will naturally stand up against the rule of your Hussein! The voice of resistance is weak, but one day it will spread to the whole of Iraq! ”

"Do you think that with democracy and freedom, Iraq will be better under your joint council?" Saddam Hussein put his forehead on the muzzle of the gun, "No kidding, Sunni, Shia, Kurds, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, all the conflicting peoples calmly sit down and form a united state?" Let me tell you, without a highly centralized central rule, the only result of the so-called liberal federal rule is the fragmentation of Iraq, followed by constant conquests! Is this the country you want to see as a rich and democratic country? Without a stable environment, democratic politics cannot be born at all. ”

Saddam Hussein stared at Mirza coldly, seeing that the latter was a little flustered, "Tell me, is this the democracy you want to see?" Is it the freedom you want to see? Without me, Iraq would be nothing, let alone become one of the great powers in the Middle East. ”

"I have created a great country with my own hands, but you villains who favor the West have always tried to destroy it, and now you finally have the opportunity to do so. But after killing me, do you really think you're capable of running the country well? By the time Saddam Hussein said this, Mirza's hands had begun to tremble. The other party completely suppressed himself in terms of momentum, and even if he stood on the side of absolute superiority, he felt powerless and collapsed.

"By the way, I'm telling you a little secret. Do you really think it's so easy to assassinate me? The Mossad and the CIA have done more than you in the last decade, and now the forces that are truly loyal to me are coming this way, and you have about five, four, three, two, one left to escape. Saddam calmly finished the last zero. Mirza, who was standing in front of him, was shot directly through the head.

The hurried Saddam Hussein death squad surrounded the remaining rebel guards, and he turned to the remaining overwhelmed guards and said, "Now do you choose to surrender or shoot on the spot?" If any of you are willing to speak out, I can spare him and his family. ”

In the CIA's office, CIA Director Woolsey, who monitored the operation throughout the process, immediately issued a secret order to bomb Saddam's presidential palace after discovering that the operation had failed. It is much more reassuring to let Saddam Hussein die in ruins than to let him escape from the presidential palace, and the CIA never misses the opportunity to assassinate Saddam, especially since he is also a Middle Eastern sword-wielding threat to US homeland security.

After receiving the order, the pilot of the F117 fighter dropped a precision-guided bomb directly on Saddam's presidential palace in an attempt to wipe the entire presidential palace from the center of Baghdad.

The three bombs were quietly falling in the direction of the presidential palace, and at this time, the chaotic Baghdad air defense forces had not yet noticed that the three dead bombs were approaching the sky above the presidential palace, preparing to wipe Saddam Hussein from this world. (To be continued.) )