Elonka wrote:
] ] U.S. officials have pointed to Khazraji, widely respected
] ] among the Iraqi armed forces for his role in the
] ] Iran-Iraq war, as a candidate for a leadership position
] ] in an Iraq without Saddam.
]
] The ex-Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army (1987-1990) goes for a
] walk near his current home in Denmark, and disappears. Was he
] kidnapped (or worse) by Iraqi Intelligence? Did he flee the
] country from fear of a war crimes trial, or did something else
] happen? Stay tuned...

It looks like this guy might have been spirited away by the CIA and killed in Iraq along with the Shiite cleric. From Arab News

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=25014

Got this from the Agonist:

http://agonist.got.net/

Don't know where he got the whole "spirited away" thing.

RE: Top Iraqi defector disappears

Elonka wrote:
] ] Russian military advisers have told Iraqi President
] ] Saddam Hussein and his government that the main Allied
] ] drive on Baghdad will not take place until mid-April and
] ] will then come around the west of the city, Russian
] ] journalists and analysts with strong links to Russian
] ] military intelligence now claim.
] ]
] ] Strikingly, the Russian analysts, whose work appears on
] ] the iraqwar.ru Web site, believe that U.S. and Allied
] ] forces are still overwhelmingly likely to win the war and
] ] that they are performing in a highly impressive manner.
] ] The reports are described as "based on the Russian
] ] military intelligence -- the Main Intelligence
] ] Directorate or GRU -- reports."
] ]
] ] A March 31 report on the site revealed that Iraq was
] ] receiving analytical advice from Russian officials.
] ] "Russian military analysts are advising the Iraqi
] ] military command against excessive optimism," it said.

More info on this at the guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,931084,00.html

RE: United Press International: Analysis: Russia advises Iraq on U.S. plan