CNN Scoop: Cash, condom, Viagra found in Uday's briefcase

[kysrsoze]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/28/sprj.irq.uday.briefcase/index.html

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. troops sifting through the wreckage of the house in Mosul where Saddam Hussein's two sons were killed found Uday Hussein's briefcase, which contained $400,000 in U.S. currency and 30 million Iraqi dinars, or about $21,400.

Uday's briefcase also contained Viagra, a condom, packaged underwear, shirts, cologne and a "tacky tie," according to a government source familiar with the inventory.

[hang a left]

1. I don't believe anything

they tell us, not one damn thing

[robbedvoter]

2. Bob Dole must be proud! nt

[DUreader]

3. That confirms it, MUST have been Uday then

No more skepticism from me, no siree.... uh uh... Uday it was

Unless, do you think they may have used morticians putty to 'reconstruct'

the whole briefcase and contents to resemble as closely as possible

Uday's briefcase?

[LisaM]

4. Wow, how did he get Viagra - who prescribed it ...

who supplied it? Did some U.S. company read the prescription and dispense it?

[kysrsoze]

5. BTW - This tidbit later in the article is interesting too

"Saddam is changing his location every two to four hours, officials said. DNA samples will be taken from three farmhouses U.S. troops raided Sunday in Tikrit to determine whether Saddam had been there, they said."

Come on! If he were moving around that much, they would've caught him by now. I can't imagine he would stay in the country where there just happen to be 150K+ US soldiers.

[diamond14]

9. saddam could be sitting right in front of them in those normal

everyday flowing-robe-outfits...

or, he's sitting in a hotel in paris, where people know how to be discrete about their guests activities...which is also where osama is...or maybe in a carribean resort, or on a cruise ship...

saddam could even just be a "media creation", like bush*...

[zekeson]

13. I'm just guessing, but I think both he and Osama

are kickin' in Crawford, laughing about how much of the money they get out of this whacked out BFEE plan.

[gauguin57]

27. nah ...

Osama and Saddam are both on ice somewhere ... maybe on life support in the White House basement, like in the movie "Dave." They will both be produced before the public in October 2004, right before the new computerized voting machines are being set up to steal yet another national election for the Repuggies.

[KoKo]

6. Well, probably 3/4's of the "batchelor's" in America have the same stuff!

What's the big deal?

And who will bring the "tacky tie, bottle of Viagra and the condom home as a "War Trophy?"

Or, are these items already "up for sale" on E-Bay! :shrug:

[dArKeR]

7. What was in the 14 year old boy's pockets?

A fourth occupant, believed to be Qusay’s 14-year-old son Mustafa, apparently survived the missile strikes and shot at the entering troops before he was gunned down, officials said.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/943393.asp?0cv=CA00


Uday, Qusay, Mustafa, 14, and a bodyguard were armed with AK-47 rifles and had barricaded themselves in on the second floor.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/content_objectid=13212099_method=full_siteid=50143_headline=-HELLFIRE%2D%2DSADDAM%2DSONS%2DKILLED%2DIN%2DHUGE%2DBLITZ-name_page.html

[R Hickey]

33. Did the 14 year old have the key to the brief case in his pocket?

On the other hand, perhaps Qusay thought Viagra to be considered a universal currency, something that could be spent where US dollars or Iraqi notes were not accepted.

[diamond14]

8. CIA guys wrote that because THAT's what they have in THEIR

briefcases...

BTW, doesn't this all seem a really an odd combination for a guy on the run?....and isn't that a LOT of stuff to fit in a briefcase? I have trouble getting ONE shirt into my briefcase, let alone $400,000 in US Money...and why carry your stuff in a briefcase when you're on the run...wouldn't he want to opt for a container that allowed his hands to be free for shooting ??? This is shameful for CNN to be writing such garbage...

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"Uday Hussein's briefcase, which contained $400,000 in U.S. currency and 30 million Iraqi dinars, or about $21,400.

Uday's briefcase also contained Viagra, a condom, packaged underwear, shirts, cologne and a "tacky tie," according to a government source familiar with the inventory."

[kysrsoze]

10. Yeah, I would have the following:

my ipod
cigarettes
a flask of booze (necessity, considering the situation)
a couple of nudie mags
a gun - gotta protect yourself
gameboy advance
a good book
some of those scope gelatin breath fresheners
keys to my Hummer H2

[diamond14]

20. ah, I would have the following ....

gold
diamonds
pen and paper
a "special" gun - good to lay out on the table during business deals..
airline tickets, cruise ship boarding pass, hotel confirmation number for the Ritz Carlton...my passport proving that I am a Canadian citizen...
my "little" address/phone book with my "special friends" in it
some of that mortician wax
my GOLD Mastercard, with the same name as my passport...James Johnson
my Canadian drivers license....

[CatWoman]

21. Bingo!!!!

and wasn't this the one who was partially paralyzed?

[kysrsoze]

22. From the waist down - hence the viagra

[CatWoman]

23. forget the viagra for a minute

and think about a partially paralyzed person, with wads of cash, running from house to house in hiding, and then launching into a fierce gun battle.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...................

[kysrsoze]

30. Yeah, sounds like bullshit

nice catch

[Pastiche423]

35. Do you have any links

to articles that confirm he was partially paralyzed? I have looked and could not find any.

I am trying to imagine him in a chair, in a shoot out. How could he wheel and shoot at the same time? Did he shoot, then place his gun in his lap, then wheel some more, then take his gun out of his lap and shoot again? lol Man, that was one skilled crip!

Just who in hell is writing these scripts?

[R Hickey]

43. The script-writers of old Ironsides episodes dreamed it all up.

Their original script had to be toned down by the top brass, with Colon Powell editing out the following scenes:

The original storyline had our intelligence not using the informer, but instead had our troops, while out on 'rat' patrol, spotting the crippled brother's wheelchair tracks in the sand, and followed the path to the secret hideout.

After the shootout, a partially demoloshed armored wheelchair, (built by the army corps of engineers), was to be planted in the rubble.

The 'sexed up' wheelchair had been equipted with RPG launchers mounted on pylons over the wheels of each side, and oddly, had a leather pouch located just above the left wheel, filled with Viagra, and a pouch on the right, filled with condoms,(extra large size).

In the front of the wheelchair, there was a hydrolic stainless steel dildo-battering-ram, and for some reason, the hubs of the chair's large spooked wheels were also equipped with rotating spikes that came out of the axils just like in that old Ben Hur movie's chariot race scene.

[CatWoman]

46. here's one

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9703/07/iraq.uday/

[peterh]

11. Uhhh…CNN…I don’t really give a rat’s ass…

That’s tabloid stuff. How bout reporting on something like all the lies and misinformation coming out of the WH….you know…something along the lines of what you thought you were doing prior to 2001.

[kysrsoze]

17. Ummm, isn't that what I'm doing?

Think about it.

[Guaranteed]

36. LOL....still though who cares? Like I said in 98.

[Ilsa]

12. Jim Rome was all over this today.

I couldn't believe it. He was making fun of them having all that viagra and only one condom. He was really close to stepping over the line and becoming political.

[oneighty]

14. 400,000 is a lot of cash!

Musta been a large brief case!

180

[Imalittleteapot]

18. Exactly what I was thinking.

???
Who gets that extra large briefcase load of cash?

[kysrsoze]

19. It goes toward the national debt - or maybe some high commander's pocket

[InkAddict]

28. Sam's Club Specials

American Tourister or Samsonite - the really big softsider on wheels donated to the unfortunate by an unnamed charity -- just guessing.

[Hex_0x]

44. $400,000

I did some research,

$400,000 comes out to be a 2 foot stack of 100 dollar bills. Weighing in at about 20lbs.

I am not sure about the denominations of the iraqi currency but this whole think smells like propaganda to me.

Hex_0x

[Hex_0x]

45. BBC says they had $100 Million

Saddam Hussein's two sons had about $100m in Iraqi dinars and US dollars with them when they were killed by American forces in northern Iraq, according to a report...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3105129.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3105129.stm

So they were traveling with 5000 lbs of currency! That's more than a pallet full of bills (65 x 48 x 65). Hope the forklift they were using to drive it around didn't get damaged. We could use it for the reconstruction effort...

How can they print stuff like this?

Hex

[Abe Linkman]

15. Same raid party as the one that "combed" Noriega's place

That's pretty much the same list except for the cocaine in the freezer that turned out to be frozen cookie dough.

[Paschall]

40. Viagra and a condom? Times have changed

Anybody remember when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested? The press made a big deal out of the books they found in his home. One was about... (gasp) contraception.

[dfong63]

16. but no sarin, anthrax, or enriched uranium...

[homelandpunk]

24. DEAR SWEET GOD!!!?? VIAGRA??!! A CONDOM!!!

THANK YOU MEDIA!! THANK YOU!! WE ALL ARE IN DEEP DEBT TO YOU FOR THIS VITAL NEWS. IT CONFIRMS EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING!!!
WE KNEW IT ALL ALONG. NOW THE PARENTS, WIVES, AND CHILDREN OF THE FALLEN CAN STAND PROUD!!!

[diamond14]

26. it's important to the religiously-insane bush* cabal...sex is on

their minds ALL THE TIME...and it's very important to bush* minions to regulate it, throwing the full force of EVERY government agency at us....they perceive that there's sex going on in America outside of FAMILY VALUES standards...!...clearly this finding justifies their pre-emptive war and KILLING thousands....

of the entire bush* spectacle....political assassinations followed by diplaying bloated bloody trophy heads...this finding of viagra and condoms is the MOST important part to all bush* religiosly-insane radical Christian fundamentalists...

[InkAddict]

29. Geesh, didn't Saddam just say no and...

shouldn't we have had war-us interruptus. A "no" must be respected!!!

Edit: Plea for mercy - Don't get me in trouble - I'm a sarcasm addict too!

[Guaranteed]

37. One word.....VIAGRAGATE! N/T

[wellstone_democrat]

25. This proves he was *a bad man*

Really, I don't need to know one other thing! I'm convinced. He was a pig and deserved to die just for the contents of that briefcase.

Enough with the goddamn purient sex stuff on these guys. We have gone way past you convincing Mr and Mrs America that these were bad men and perverts into (no pun intended) overkill. For god's sake, give it a rest CNN/Fox/USAToday and all the rest of you "journalists" you are becoming parodies of your former selves at too high a rate for us mere mortals to keep up with.

HEY CNN:
When you tell me what was in GW Bush*'s 1972 bachelor apartment that helped him "avoid" military physicals and drug tests AND suddenly do community service for a short time, then I'll be interested in what dead non-American nationals have in their wallets, bedrooms and briefcases.

[kysrsoze]

31. Ummm, do you really think that stuff was in their briefcases

I don't want you lumping us respectable perverts into a group with these guys.

[PsychoDad]

32. All ready...

For his trip to Amerika, and Bush's ranch.

[mitchum]

34. What? No copy of "Maxim"?

[Scurrilous]

38. Product Placement.

The Drug Companies are always looking for new ways to advertise their products. So Pfizer slips the BFEE boys a few bucks for the election kitty in return for claiming Viagra was found on Uday. The media then mentions it ad naseum. It's great product placement.

[diamond14]

39. true, without that extra PUSH from the drug manufacturer...they

would have just referred to it as "generic penis-rising drugs found in Uday's briefcase"....I did notice right away that there was NO mention of the manufacturer of the condom...missing a great ad opportunity....

bet that the Pfizer sales rep gets a bonus for being alert to that marketing oportunity....Pfizer likely gives Viagra FREE to all the CIA guys, in exchange for such product placement in all their big sons-of-world-leaders presidentially-ordered political assassinations...the CIA guys also get those slick sunglasses for free....so you can identify them in a crowd...

[tlb]

41. Typical male.

He had probably been carrying that same condom for 20 years.

[CaptainMidnight]

42. gimme a break!

What, no ladies panties and Marilyn wig?

Ridiculous!

Captain Mike